Thomas Jankins Tosses Eight Scoreless Innings as QU Baseball Shuts Out North Florida, 3-0

Friday, March 18

Jacksonville, FL

6 PM

Quinnipiac University

6-8

North Florida

11-9

Quinnipiac

North Florida

Thomas Jankins Tosses Eight Scoreless Innings as QU Baseball Shuts Out North Florida, 3-0

3/18/2016 10:14:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

By: QU Sports Information

Box Score

JACKSONVILLE, Florida – Quinnipiac baseball pitcher Thomas Jankins (West Brookfield, Massachusetts) pitched eight scoreless innings to lead the Bobcats to a 3-0 victory over the North Florida Ospreys at Harmon Field on Friday night.

Jankins struck out seven batters in the win on Friday night to earn his second win of the season. It is the fourth time in his career that Jankins has tossed at least eight shutout innings. The Bobcats' right-hander scattered seven hits and walked just one batter for the victory. Jankins recorded strikeouts in six of the eight innings in the game.

Quinnipiac's win was its sixth of the season as the Bobcats improve to 6-8 while North Florida falls to 11-9 and their five-game winning streak was snapped.
Ryan Nelson (Knoxville, Tennessee) was the offensive leader for the Bobcats against the Ospreys as he hit his first home run of the season and third of his career. Nelson was the only Bobcat with multiple hits as he went 2 for 4.

Lou Iannotti (North Haven, Connecticut) extended his hitting streak to 14 games as he went 1 for 4 with a RBI while John Bodenhamer (Maple Valley, Washington) was 1 for 3 with a double and a run scored.

Closer Alex Vargas (New York, New York) recorded his fourth save of the season as he struck out two batters in a scoreless ninth inning to preserve the shutout for the Bobcats.

The Bobcats scored two runs in the top of the third inning to break the scoreless tie. Bodenhamer led off the inning with a double to left centerfield to put a runner in scoring position. After back-to-back outs, Brian Moskey (Higganum, Connecticut) reached on an infield single to put runners on the corners. Rob Pescitelli (West Islip, New York) hit a first-pitch single to right field that scored Bodenhamer. Iannotti followed Pescitelli with a 0-2 single through the right side of the infield that scored Moskey from second base.

Nelson continued the scoring for the Bobcats in the top of the fourth inning as he launched a solo home run over the left field fence.

Quinnipiac and North Florida will continue their three-game series on Saturday, March 19 in game two of the series at Harmon Stadium with first pitch scheduled for 1 PM.