FORT WORTH, Texas – The Florida State bats stayed hot Saturday, mashing 13 hits and 10 more runs to beat No. 8 TCU, 10-8, for the second consecutive game to clinch the series. Jaime Ferrer hit a pair of home runs and led FSU with three hits and four RBI, while Andrew Armstrong earned his first career save with 2.0 innings of one-run baseball.
Ferrer continued his torrid streak against the Horned Frogs and is hitting 6-for-10 with two doubles, a triple, two home runs, six runs scored and six RBI in two games against TCU. The sophomore hit a pair of two-run home runs Saturday, the first Seminole since 2021 with a multi-home run game.
Freshman Cam Smith had his second three-hit game of the season and connected on his third home run, most on the team. After TCU cut the lead to 5-4 in the sixth inning, Smith’s home run started a five-run top of the seventh for the Noles that provided FSU’s final runs.
TCU took an early lead against FSU starter Jamie Arnold, a freshman making
FORT WORTH, Texas – Florida State (5-0) beat No. 8 TCU (3-2) 10-1 Friday night at Lupton Stadium behind a strong performance from starting pitcher Jackson Baumeister (1-0). The sophomore – making his fourth career start and first on a Friday night – set career highs with 5.2 innings pitched and eight strikeouts, allowing just one hit. The Noles broke a scoreless tie with three runs in the sixth inning against Ryan Vanderhei (0-1) and held TCU to just two hits after the Horned Frogs scored 45 runs in its first four games.
FSU’s offense exploded over the final four innings, with three in the sixth, two in the eighth and five more to pull away in the ninth inning.
Baumeister was stellar in the best outing of his career, allowing just one hit and two walks in the contest. He left with a pair of runners on base when Wyatt Crowell entered and struck out Brayden Taylor, TCU’s three-hole hitter who was hitting .529 entering Friday night.
Crowell allowed an unearned run in 3.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Florida State’s (4-0) offense continued to shine Tuesday, recording 15 hits and scoring 11 runs in an 11-2 victory over Jacksonville (1-3) Tuesday night at John Sessions Stadium. Freshman DeAmez Ross tallied his second three-hit game of the season, while Cam Smith and Jordan Carrion both had three hits and three RBI in the evening.
The Seminoles are now averaging 11.3 runs per game this season. After the Dolphins took a 2-0 lead on a home run in the bottom of the second inning, FSU responded with five runs in the third and three more in the fourth inning. The only hit allowed by FSU freshman Ben Barrett was Chandler Howard’s home run, and he struck out a batter in 2.0 innings in his collegiate debut.
Brennen Oxford (1-0) held Jacksonville off the board after FSU took the lead, working around an error in the third and a double in the fourth to strand runners. Along with Ross’s three-hit day, Smith had a two-run double and solo home run, his second of t