Stetson vs. Florida
May 25, 2001
GAME NOTES
University of Florida
***Senior first-baseman Jason Dill tied a career-high with four hits.
***Dill also registered his 40th double of his career becoming one of only 13 players in Florida history to hit 40 or more doubles.
***Florida has finished with 10 or more hits in 10 of its last 13 games, and has scored 10 or more runs in 18 games this season.
***Florida has stole five or more bases 11 times this season.
***Junior Matt Goss tied a career-high with three runs scored.
***Florida improves to 30-0 this season when leading after eight innings.
***Junior Jay Belflower retired a career-high eight consecutive batters from the fifth through seventh innings.
***The win is the first this season for Florida over Stetson.
***Florida is 2-1 all-time vs. Stetson in NCAA Regional games.
***Florida improves to 12-9 all-time in NCAA Regional games in Miami.
***Florida has won nine of its last 14 games and 24 of its last 36 games.
***Florida advances to Saturday’s winner’s bracket game against Miami or Bucknell at 3:30 p.m.
Stetson University
***Junior Lenny DiNardo recorded a career-high six walks.
***Senior Frank Corr recorded his 17th homerun of the season in the eighth inning. He now has 52 career homeruns which establishes a new Stetson career record.
***Stetson falls to 2-4 in regional play in Miami and is 11-18 all-time in NCAA Regional competition.
2001 CORAL GABLES REGIONAL
Game One
Stetson vs. Florida
FLORIDA POST-GAME QUOTES
Head Coach Andy Lopez
On his team’s performance:
“Needless to say, we did get off on the right foot today, in terms of getting the victory. We’ve had three mind-boggling games this year with Stetson. Again, real good to see us get on the right track. I’m real proud of guys like Jason Dill, who are still banged up. He didn’t get off to a real good start, but Jimmy Ramshaw wasn’t feeling very good and he battled through it.”
On the high-scoring game:
“I honestly felt going in that it would be a pretty low-scoring game. They have a good pitching staff and, obviously, Jimmy (Ramshaw) is pitching well since coming off the Tommy John surgery. Lenny DiNardo’s an outstanding college pitcher and we just happened to catch him on an off day.”
Jimmy Ramshaw, starting pitcher
On his performance:
“Getting used to the humidity was a bit of an adjustment for me. Being from Australia, it’s not something I’m used to. My legs kinda went on me and I was a little unstable. But I was able to keep it together and just thought about throwing strikes. After that, things turned out pretty good.”
On his team’s run support:
“It’s always good to have a lot of support behind you. We’ve had it lately. And it is especially good to get plenty of runs against a team like Stetson and a good pitcher like (Lenny) DiNardo. He’s a great pitcher, but our guys did a good job of hitting the ball today against him and their reliever (Jack Collins).”
Relief pitcher Jay Belflower
On his performance:
“Before when I faced (Stetson), I had a little trouble. Not much was working. It was just a bad day and I was beaten up pretty bad. But I’ve been throwing a lot better the last couple of months and things just worked out for me today.”
STETSON POST-GAME QUOTES
Stetson Head Coach Pete Dunn
On his teams performance:
“In the last five games we haven’t swung the bat very well. We’ve scored five runs in 32 innings. I was very pleased with the way we came out today and swung the bat, but we were just too generous. I believe we walked six or seven, I know we hit two [batters] and we made five errors. You can’t do that in a regional, whether it is Florida or whoever, you just can’t do that and expect to win a ballgame. We’ve got to pick up the ball, we’ve got to throw it and we’ve got to throw strikes. We didn’t do that today and I think that was the big difference.”
On Starting Pitcher Lenny DiNardo:
“Lenny [DiNardo] is a control pitcher. That’s been one of his strengths for the three years he’s been at Stetson, but he just didn’t have command today. Sometimes that happens.”
Lenny DiNardo, Stetson Starting Pitcher
On his Performance:
“That’s what baseball is, sometimes you go out there with your “A” game and sometimes it’s just not going to be there. That was one of the things today. I wasn’t very consistent with my strike zone and I wasn’t battling hard enough to get back into the game.”
