With the victory, the Seminoles won their first series against the Jackets since taking two of three in Atlanta in 2003.
The Seminoles' first inning included RBI doubles by Stidham and Mark Hallberg, RBI singles by Buster Posey and Mark Gildea, and a trio of Yellow Jacket errors to put the visitors up early, 6-0. Florida State then added a run in the second inning on a double steal to push the score to 7-0.
After Tech scored two runs in the bottom of the second on Tony Plagman's two-run double, Florida State starter Michael Hyde and relievers Fairel and Brian Chambers combined to hold Tech to just six hits and no runs over the next 7.2 innings.
Plagman went 2-for-3 and Patrick Long added two hits to pace the Jackets offense. Hallberg, Posey, Stidham and Jack Rye all posted two hits for the Seminoles.
Fairel (1-0) earned his first win of the season by giving up just four hits while striking out five before Chambers closed out the game by tossing the final two innings.
David Duncan (6-4) took his second-straight loss, giving up eight runs on eight hits in 4.1 innings of work.
An RBI double by Brandon Reichert extended the Seminoles' lead to 8-2 in the fifth inning before Rye's two-run home run in the sixth inning provided the final eight-run margin.
The Jackets and Seminoles will wrap up the series Saturday at 4 p.m.
2007 GEORGIA TECH BASEBALL
#3 Florida State at Georgia Tech
May 18, 2007 at Atlanta, Ga. (Russ Chandler Stadium)
Florida State 10 (45-9,23-6 ACC)
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB Avg.
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Tony Thomas Jr. 2b....... 4 1 1 0 2 0 1 7 0 .442
Mark Hallberg ss......... 6 1 2 1 0 1 1 3 4 .377
Buster Posey c........... 6 2 2 1 0 1 8 0 2 .381
Jack Rye rf.............. 2 3 2 2 3 0 3 0 0 .380
Travis Anderson dh....... 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 .284
Tommy Oravetz ph/dh..... 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .312
Jason Stidham 3b......... 5 1 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 .374
Mark Gildea cf........... 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 .386
Ruairi O'Connor lf....... 3 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 .303
Ohmed Danesh lf......... 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 .338
Brandon Reichert 1b...... 5 0 1 1 0 2 13 1 0 .320
Michael Hyde p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
Matt Fairel p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 -
Brian Chambers p........ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 -
Totals................... 40 10 13 9 7 7 27 14 11
Georgia Tech 2 (31-22,15-13 ACC)
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB Avg.
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Danny Payne cf........... 4 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 .382
Michael Fisher ss........ 4 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 3 .337
Matt Wieters c/1b........ 5 0 1 0 0 2 8 2 1 .368
Wally Crancer dh......... 3 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 .363
Luke Murton rf........... 5 1 1 0 0 1 4 1 1 .251
Patrick Long 2b.......... 4 1 2 0 0 0 2 1 1 .281
Brad Feltes 3b........... 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 1 .221
Tony Plagman 1b.......... 3 0 2 2 0 0 7 1 3 .275
Nick Scherer c.......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .111
Curtis Dupart lf......... 4 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 .185
David Duncan p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 -
Jared Hyatt p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
Will Hirsch p........... 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 -
Totals................... 34 2 8 2 4 7 27 12 12
Score by Innings R H E
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Florida State....... 610 012 000 - 10 13 1
Georgia Tech........ 020 000 000 - 2 8 4
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E - Stidham, J.(12); Fisher, M.(16); Long, P.(14); Feltes, B. 2(7). DP -
Georgia Tech 1. LOB - FSU 11; Georgia Tech 12. 2B - Hallberg, M(12);
Stidham, J. 2(16); O'Connor, R.(10); Reichert, B.(14). HR - Rye, J.(8). HBP
- Feltes, B.; Plagman, T.. SH - Anderson, T.(2); Feltes, B.(6). SB - Rye,
J.(5); Stidham, J.(5). CS - Plagman, T.(2).
Florida State IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP ERA
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Michael Hyde........ 2.2 3 2 1 3 2 11 16 71 3.38
Matt Fairel......... 4.1 4 0 0 0 5 16 17 74 2.84
Brian Chambers...... 2.0 1 0 0 1 0 7 8 25 3.65
Georgia Tech IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP ERA
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David Duncan........ 4.1 8 8 7 5 3 21 27 96 3.84
Jared Hyatt......... 3.2 4 2 2 2 4 15 17 77 3.17
Will Hirsch......... 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 4 4 18 3.00
Win - Fairel, M. (1-0). Loss - Duncan, D. (6-4). Save - None.
WP - Hyde, M.(5); Hyatt, J.(4). HBP - by Hyde, M. (Feltes, B.); by Fairel, M.
(Plagman, T.). BK - Chambers, B.(2). Inherited runners/scored: Fairel, M. 3/0;
Hyatt, J. 1/0. Pitches/strikes: Hyde, M. 71/39; Fairel, M. 74/46; Chambers, B.
25/14; Duncan, D. 96/56; Hyatt, J. 77/47; Hirsch, W. 18/12.
Umpires - HP: Harry Greer 1B: Randy Harvey, Jr. 3B: Scott Graham
Start: 7:06 pm Time: 3:01 Attendance: 3075