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Auburndale, Fla.: The SUNY Cobleskill baseball team continued their spring trip by split a pair of games at the 2023 Russ Matt Invitational with the Yellowjackets of the University of Wisconsin-Superior losing the opener to the Yellowjackets 8-6 in eight innings then taking the second game by a 7-3 margin in games played at Lake Myrtle Sports Park. With the split the Fighting Tigers move to 2-5 overall on the year while the Yellowjackets are currently 4-2 overall.

The Fighting Tigers found themselves trailing in the opener in the bottom of the seventh by a 6-5 tally when freshman right fielder Logan Firment, Andes, N.Y., South Kortright High School, went deep to tie the contest at 6-6 and force the game into extra innings.

However, Cobleskill could not hold the Yellowjackets in check as Superior scored twice in the top of the eighth to decide the issue.

Fighting Tiger starting junior pitcher Andrew Jarkow, Glen Head, N.Y., North Shore High School, was the victim of several defensive miscues allowing six runs in 5.1 inning of work of which only two were earned as the Cobleskill junior struck out six and walked only two to take a no decision.

Offensively Logan Firment finished the game going 2-for-4 with the homer and a pair of runs scored and junior second baseman David Flora, Windsor, N.Y., Windsor High School/Herkimer Community College, went 1-for-3 with a home run for Cobleskill.

In the nightcap, second baseman David Flora struck the big blow, a three-run homer, as part of a four run second inning which staked the Fighting Tigers to a 5-3 lead from which they never looked back.

Flora finished the day going 2-for-4 with a double, a home run, three RBI and two runs scored while sophomore catcher Dylan Pohl, East Meadow, N.Y., East Meadow High School, went 2-for-4 with an RBI in the contest.

Sophomore right hander Shane Ladden, West Babylon, N.Y., West Babylon High School, notched the win by hurling 3.2 innings of scoreless relief for Cobleskill.

The Fighting Tigers will return to action at the Russ Matt Invitational on Thursday March 16 when they travel to Davenport, Fla to face the Blue Knights of Mount Saint Mary's College in doubleheader action at Northeast Regional Park beginning at 9:00 a.m.