Coral Gables, Fla. (www.hurricanesports.com) – The 2001 College World Series Champion Miami Hurricanes will host an exhibition game against the Major League Florida Marlins at Mark Light Stadium on the UM campus, Wednesday, March 6 at 3:05 p.m.

The Hurricanes earned the right to play Florida in exhibition play, due to finishing the 2001 season as the top-ranked team in the state of Florida. The Marlins will play one exhibition game per spring training season against the state’s highest-ranked college program the previous season. The Marlins have faced the Hurricanes in all but two seasons since their inaugural 1993 season.

Miami has played 22 exhibition games against Major League ball clubs 1950, not including professional minor league clubs. UM is 1-21 in those games with its lone victory coming against the Baltimore Orioles, 7-6, in 1982. The Hurricanes are 0-5 against the Marlins since the 1995 season.

In the two programs last meeting on April 1, 2000, Florida handed the 1999 Defending National Champion Miami Hurricanes a 12-6 defeat in front of 4,022 fans at Mark Light Stadium. Five current Hurricanes saw action in that 2000 game, including Troy Roberson, Javy Rodriguez, Kevin Howard, Danny Matienzo and Kiki Bengochea.

Roberson pitched the final inning allowing just one hit in four batters faced. Bengochea saw 4.0 innings of relief work, allowing five hits, four runs (one earned), two walks and one strikeout. At the plate, Howard (2-for-4, run scored) and Matienzo (2-for-5) both led the team with two-hit performances, while each had two RBI. Rodriguez went 1-for-2 with a run scored, one RBI and a stolen base.