March 6, 2001

Box Score

Boca Raton, FL - Florida Atlantic University (11-7) won its first game, 9-3, of a seven game home stand Tuesday night against Monmouth University (0-4). Sophomore, James Callahan drew his first collegiate start, recorded a career high seven strikeouts, and earned a pitch-count win after four innings.

Callahan gave up a lead-off home run, but held Monmouth to one more hit, a double. The Hawks scored their only other runs of the game in the sixth inning off of pitcher Chris Pillsbury. He gave up hits to the first two batters of the inning and allowed them to score when he threw two wild pitches. Pillsbury completed a total of four innings of work while giving up four hits.

Gabe Somarriba lead-off the game for FAU by adding to his hit by pitch count (11) and scored the first run for the Blue Wave, a deep sac fly by LJ Biernbaum. Florida Atlantic scored two runs in the third, when Monmouth committed four wild pitches, a balk, a passed ball and walked two.

Alex Fernandez, who entered the game in the third inning and went 2-for-3, hit a RBI single up the middle scoring Mike Valdes from third. Bobby Spano drove in second of the innings three runs with a single that scored Fernandez.

The sixth inning saw FAU score another run on a Rusty Brown (1-for-3) single scoring Valdes from second. Monmouth miscues led to two runs in the seventh inning and saw LJ Biernbaum earn his second RBI of the night.

Enrique Genoa (0-1) took the loss for the Hawks. He gave up four hits, six run, but only one earned, in four plus innings of work.