Baseball Falls at USF in Season Opener

Friday, February 15

Tampa, Fla.

6:00 PM (CT)

Samford University

0-1

South Florida

1-0

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Samford	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	4	7	2
South Florida	1	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	X	7	9	2

Box Score (PDF)

2.15.19 | Baseball

Box Score

BOX SCORE (PDF)

TAMPA, Fla. – Samford's Branden Fryman opened the season with a 3-for-5 performance at the plate, but the Bulldogs fell by a score of 7-4 at South Florida in the team's season opener Friday evening at the USF Baseball Stadium.

Fryman collected his 38th career multi-hit game of his career. The junior shortstop drove in a run and crossed home twice accounting for three of the four Samford runs in the game.

FROM THE BOX SCORE

Fyrman was the lone Samford player with multiple hits.
Samuel Strickland took the loss on the mound for the Bulldogs after allowing five earned runs in four innings.
Luke Corbin and Eric Sottile each held the Bulls scoreless in relief for Samford. Corbin threw two scoreless frames, while Sottile had one scoreless inning.
USF's Collin Sullivan got the win after six innings of work. He allow just two runs and scattered four hits.
Nick Gonzalez led the Bulls at the dish after two hits in four trips to the plate including a three run homer to left in the second.

SCORING SUMMARY

USF scored in the first three innings beginning with a RBI double to center in the first. Gonzalez followed with his three-run homer in the second before the Bulls tacked on their fifth run of the game in the third on a solo homer.
Samford got on the board in the fourth when Fryman scored on a double to right off the bat of Brooks Carlson.
The Bulls added a pair of runs in the fifth with a bases loaded walk and a sacrifice fly.
Sonny DiChiara cut the deficit down to 7-2 with a RBI single in the sixth and Fryman drove in a run in the seventh on an RBI single up the middle.
Taylor Garris scored the final run of the game in the ninth on a USF error.

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