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Jacksonville, Fla. – Corbin Olmstead's walk-off single in the bottom of the 10th inning lifted North Florida to a 4-3 victory and a series win over USC Upstate Sunday afternoon from Harmon Stadium.

Alex Bacon opened the 10th inning with a single to third base and moved into scoring position two batters later on a single by James Abbatinozzi. After Upstate reliever Erik Samples retired Kyle Brooks for the second out of the inning, Olmstead slapped a 3-2 pitch into right field for his sixth RBI of the season.

Olmstead (1-3) also earned the win on the mound after hurling six innings in relief of North Florida starter Tyler Moore. Olmstead allowed three runs on six hits and struck out three.

Samples (3-1) suffered the loss after allowing just the one run in 2.2 innings of mound duty. Upstate starter Dylan Parker had another strong outing and gave up just three runs in 5.1 innings of work.

USC Upstate (9-13, 1-2) struck first with a pair of runs in the top of the fifth inning on a towering two-run home run off the bat of first baseman Zach Krider. Spartan left fielder Brian Thompson drew a walk and came around to score when Krider blasted Olmstead's pitch over the left field wall and off the top of the Dusty Rhodes Indoor Batting Facility for his second home run of the season.  

North Florida (9-9, 2-1) plated three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning that started with an innocent lineout off the bat of Drew Weeks. On the very next pitch, however, Osprey first baseman Ryan Roberson put UNF on the board with a home run into left-center field for his first roundtripper of the season. Third baseman Trent Higginbothem hit the very next pitch over the left field wall to tie the game 2-2, and Abbatinozzi added an RBI single later in the inning to give UNF its first lead of the game.

Daniel Seeba pulled Upstate even with North Florida when his sacrifice fly in the top of the eighth inning drove in Samples. Samples led off the inning with a double to center and advance to third on a groundout to the right side by Stephen Dowling.

AJ Mackey tied his career high with three hits, while both Krider and Samples finished with two hits apiece to lead the Upstate offensive attack.

Upstate returns to the diamond Tuesday at 6 p.m. when the Spartans head across town to take on Wofford from Russell C. King Field.

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