Baseball Travels To Tallahassee To Face FSU
April 3, 2002
Coral Gables, Fla. (www.hurricanesports.com) — – The University of Miami baseball team (17-13) travels to Tallahassee this weekend for a three-game series with 10th-ranked Florida State (28-10) at Dick Howser Stadium.
The series begins Friday night at 7 p.m., followed by 7 p.m. Saturday night at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. All three games can be heard over the Internet at www.hurricanesports.com or on the student voice of the Hurricanes, WVUM 90.5 FM.
On the mound for the Hurricanes Friday night will be Sophomore RHP T.J. Prunty (4-1, 4.64 ERA). Sophomore RHP Dan Touchet (2-1, 4.28 ERA) will pitch Saturday night. Junior RHP Kiki Bengochea (2-4, 6.21 ERA) will get the start on Sunday.
The three games with Florida State in Tallahassee will mark game No. 223-225 between UM and FSU since the 1951 season. FSU holds the lead over Miami, 115-104-3, including a 64-45-1 mark in Tallahassee.
The Miami/FSU series is the second-oldest on-going rivalry on the Hurricanes schedule behind the Florida series (1940), but UM and FSU have played the most games (222).
UM head coach Jim Morris was the first assistant hired by FSU head coach Mike Martin in 1980. Morris served on the FSU staff for the 1980-81 seasons, with current FSU pitching coach Jamey Shoupe as a Seminoles pitcher. FSU assistant coach Chip Baker also served on Morris’ Georgia Tech staff. UM pitching coach Lazaro Collazo served one season, 1992, on the FSU staff. Both UM coaches Gino DiMare and Greg Lovelady played against various Seminole teams throughout their playing careers at Miami.
Miami is 32-21 overall vs. FSU during the Jim Morris era, including a 15-12 mark at Dick Howser Stadium. Additionally, UM is 15-9 vs. the Seminoles at Mark Light Stadium, as well as 2-0 vs. FSU at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, NE.
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