Coming off a disappointing series against Tulane, the Knights baseball team found more misfortune against FAU.
UCF (21-12, 3-6) blew the game late and fell 3-2 to the Owls (20-13, 7-5) on Tuesday night in Boca Raton.
FAU reliever Glen Troyanowski earned his first win of the season and Matt Collins got handed the loss after giving up the winning run during his 1-1/3 innings of relief.
He entered the game after Johnny Sedlock gave up a single to start off the sixth. Collins promptly retired the side and struck out one. After he gave up two-straight one-out singles in the seventh, he was replaced by Nick Cicio.
"I think collectively as a group they did a nice job," head coach Terry Rooney said of the pitchers. "At the end of the day, it was two teams kind of going back and forth and they played a little bit better than us. I told our guys that seasons are defined by one-run games and we've got to play better than one-run games."
Chase Bradford, who earned himself a weekday starting role a few weeks ago, pitched four innings and gave up two runs. The UCF pitching staff didn't walk a batter.
"At the end of the day, the job of the starting pitcher is to give your team a chance to win and I thought [Bradford] threw a couple of very good innings out there," Rooney said.
Jonathan Griffin smashed his fourth home run in as many games when he led off the second inning with his eighth homer of the season.
UCF's only other run came in the third inning. Ryan Breen doubled to start it off, advanced to third on Travis Shreve's sacrifice bunt and scored on an error. The Knights went on to leave two more on base.
When UCF was done scoring, FAU started.
The Owls scored a run in the third, fourth and seventh innings. FAU left two runners on base in each of those innings. Colby Gratton hit an RBI-double in the third. One run scored unearned and the other on a sacrifice fly hit by Sean Bukovich.
The Owls, despite only winning by one, out hit the Knights 13-7.


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