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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Big wins keep coming for the Nova Southeastern University baseball team (14-7) as the Sharks defeated another top-10 team in Franklin Pierce (9-2), 11-3, Tuesday evening at the NSU Baseball Complex.

The senior first baseman, Dusty Maggs (Satellite Beach, Fla.), was a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate, hitting two dingers and driving in six in the contest. Senior Luis Penate (Miami, Fla.) also recorded a multi-hit night, while scoring and driving in a run.

The Sharks tallied 11 hits in the victory from eight different NSU batters, scoring 11 runs, 10 coming from RBI.

On the mound, NSU used four different pitchers, scattering seven hits and three runs.

Chris Roman (Sr., Kissimmee, Fla.) earned the start tossing 4.1 innings, holding the Ravens to four hits and their three and only runs, two unearned. The righty struck out four in the outing while only walking two.

Mauricio Rodriguez (Jr., Miami, Fla.) was sent in for relief of Roman in the fifth inning with one out. In 2.2 innings pitched, Rodriguez (1-0) hurled his first win of the season giving up the final three hits.

Vinnie Contaldi (So., Jupiter, Fla.) and Andrew Durden (Sr., Port St. Lucie, Fla.) also threw 1.0 innings a piece, holding the Ravens offense hitless.

Nova Southeastern was the first team to strike in the ballgame after both teams worked a scoreless first inning. With two outs in the bottom of the second, Daniel Petitbon (Jr., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) jogged to first for NSU’s first base runner of the game. Maggs wasted no time as he took the first offering from starter Nate Sermini (0-1) and sent it deep over the right field wall.

The Sharks tacked on another run as Nikko Echevarria (Jr., Abqaib, Saudi Arabia) led off the third with a triple down the leftfield line. He would later score on a wild pitch from Sermini as NSU's lead increased to 3-0.

Franklin Pierce made it a one-run game in the fourth as back-to-back Ravens reached base to lead the inning. After a sac bunt to move both runners in scoring position, the first scored on a wild pitch and sacrifice fly to make it 3-2.

NSU answered back by scoring two of their own. Catcher Haven Fitzsimmonds (Sr., Loxahatchee, Fla.) walked to start the bottom half of the fourth and advanced to third on a Petitbon double to right center. Maggs drove in two more runs, hitting a single to right field, plating both Fitzsimmons and Petitbon.

The Ravens scored their final run in the top of the fifth, but the NSU bats were hot heading into the home half of the frame.

NSU scored three runs with no outs off starter Sermini before the Ravens made a pitching change. Franklin Pierce thought the stopped the bleeding but Maggs dug deeper with a bomb over dead center for the Sharks’ 10th run of the game. Both Penate and Fitzsimmonds double in the rally.

In eighth, NSU scored another run as Penate drove home Ray Navarro (Jr., Miami, Fla.) for the Sharks final run of the game to make it 11--3.

Nova Southeastern will continue non-conference game with a matchup against St. Michael’s at 6 p.m. at the NSU Baseball Complex.