The Yellow Jackets second straight win over the Seminoles clinched the series. It marks the first time since the 1994 season and just the second time since FSU joined the league in 1992 that Tech has won a series in Tallahassee.
With the loss, the Seminoles lost a home ACC series for the first time since 1995 and for just the sixth time in 51 conference home series since joining the league.
Kown (6-1), who has won five straight decisions and has not lost since Feb. 29, worked six innings and held the Seminoles to one run on three hits. He issued four walks and struck out six, while allowing just three Florida State batters to advance past first base. The Tech bullpen of Philip Perry, Aaron Walker and John Goodman worked the final three innings and allowed one run.
Clifton Remole paced the Tech offense with a 3-for-4 performance, while Greene, Eric Patterson, and Steven Blackwood added two hits apiece. Eight of the nine Tech starters had at least one hit in the game.
Tech took advantage of FSU starter Mark Sauls' wildness to build a 4-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Sauls issued two walks and hit a batter, while Brandon Boggs drove in two runs with a single, Tyler Greene had a RBI single and Remole added a sacrifice fly.
The Yellow Jackets scored six times in the fourth inning to push the lead to 10-0. Remole led off the inning with a double and scored on Mike Nickeas' RBI double, and after a walk and sacrifice bunt, consecutive singles from Patterson and Greene accounted for three runs. Blackwood capped the inning with a two-run homer, his second of the year, over the 30-foot screen in right field.
The Seminoles broke up the shutout in the sixth inning when he tripled and scored on a wild pitch to make the score 10-1. Ryne Malone, who went 2-for-4, singled and scored on a double play groundout to make the score 10-2 in the seventh, but the Yellow Jackets added a pair of unearned runs in the top of the eighth to push the lead to 12-2.
Sauls (3-4) took the loss, allowing nine runs on seven hits and two walks in 3.1 innings.
Georgia Tech and Florida State will conclude the three-game series on Sunday at 1 p.m.
2004 GEORGIA TECH BASEBALL
GEORGIA TECH at FLORIDA STATE
April 24, 2004 at Tallahassee, Fla. (Dick Howser Stadium)
GEORGIA TECH 12 (24-17,6-5 ACC) FLORIDA STATE 2 (27-15,6-5 ACC)
Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI
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Eric Patterson 2b.......... 4 3 2 1 Shane Robinson cf.......... 5 0 0 0
Tyler Greene ss............ 5 2 2 3 Stephen Drew ss............ 2 1 1 0
Steven Blackwood lf........ 4 2 2 2 Eddy Martinez-Esteve lf.... 3 0 1 0
Micah Owings dh............ 3 1 1 0 Daniel Wardell 1b......... 1 0 0 0
Brandon Boggs cf........... 5 0 1 2 Gibbs Chapman dh........... 3 0 1 0
Clifton Remole rf.......... 4 1 3 1 Bryan Zech 2b.............. 4 0 1 0
Mike Nickeas 1b............ 4 1 1 1 Aaron Cheesman c........... 3 0 0 0
Whit Robbins 1b........... 0 0 0 0 Danny Diaz c.............. 1 0 0 0
Andy Hawranick c........... 4 1 0 0 Ryne Malone 1b/lf.......... 4 1 2 0
Mike Trapani 3b............ 3 1 1 0 Matt Sauls rf.............. 2 0 0 0
Andrew Kown p.............. 0 0 0 0 Dennis Anderson 3b......... 2 0 0 0
Philip Perry p............ 0 0 0 0 Derrick Smith ph/lf....... 1 0 0 0
Aaron Walker p............ 0 0 0 0 Mark Sauls p............... 0 0 0 0
John Goodman p............ 0 0 0 0 Kevin Lynch p............. 0 0 0 0
Matt DiBlasi p............ 0 0 0 0
DiCarlo Thompson p........ 0 0 0 0
Totals..................... 36 12 13 10 Totals..................... 31 2 6 0
Score by Innings R H E
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GEORGIA TECH........ 400 600 020 - 12 13 0
FLORIDA STATE....... 000 001 100 - 2 6 4
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E - Drew(9); Diaz(1); Malone(13); Mark Sauls(2). DP - GEORGIA TECH 2; FSU 4.
LOB - GEORGIA TECH 5; FSU 8. 2B - Remole, C. 2(9); Nickeas, M.(9); Trapani, M.(1);
Malone(7). 3B - Drew(2). HR - Blackwood, S(2). HBP - Blackwood, S. SH - Trapani,
M.(3). SF - Remole, C.(3). SB - Patterson, E(29); Greene, T.(12). CS - Boggs, B.(5).
GEORGIA TECH IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO NP
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Andrew Kown W,6-1......... 6.0 3 1 1 4 6 1 0 0 0 20 24 3 8 102
Philip Perry .............. 0.0 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 18
Aaron Walker .............. 2.0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 6 6 2 1 22
John Goodman .............. 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 4 2 0 14
FLORIDA STATE IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO NP
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Mark Sauls L,3-4.......... 3.1 7 9 9 4 2 0 0 1 0 13 20 4 2 64
Kevin Lynch ............... 0.2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 1 1 8
Matt DiBlasi .............. 3.0 4 2 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 13 14 2 2 52
DiCarlo Thompson .......... 2.0 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 7 7 0 2 24
Perry, P. faced 3 batters in the 7th.
DiBlasi faced 2 batters in the 8th.
WP - Kown, A.(4); Thompson(3). HBP - by Mark Sauls (Blackwood, S). PB - Hawranick, A(1).
Inherited runners/scored: Walker, A. 3/1; Lynch 1/1; Thompson 2/2. Pitches/strikes:
Kown, A. 102/58; Perry, P. 18/8; Walker, A. 22/14; Goodman, J. 14/8; Mark Sauls 64/33;
Lynch 8/6; DiBlasi 52/37; Thompson 24/14.
Strikeouts - Patterson, E; Owings, M.; Boggs, B.; Remole, C.; Nickeas, M. 2;
Hawranick, A; Trapani, M. 2; Robinson; Drew; M.-Esteve; Zech; Cheesman; Diaz;
Malone; Matt Sauls; Anderson. Walks - Patterson, E; Owings, M. 2; Nickeas, M.;
Hawranick, A; Drew 2; Chapman; Matt Sauls 2; Smith.
Umpires - HP: Henry Stancil 1B: Randy Harvey 3B: Tony Maners
Start: 7:06 pm Time: 2:53 Attendance: 5276