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Auburn Heads To #5 Florida State For First Two Games Of Four-Game Series


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AUBURN, Ala. – Auburn will try to carry the momentum it built in

Tuesday night’s 17-4 thrashing of Lipscomb over to the weekend as it

heads to No. 5 Florida State for the first two games of a four-game

series that starts on Thursday. Thursday and Friday’s games will be

played in Tallahassee and then the teams will return to Auburn for the

final two games of the series on Saturday and Sunday.

So. RHP Ty Kelley will make his Auburn debut in Thursday’s opener and

Auburn will use the same three pitchers it used in last weekend’s

series with Elon for the final three games, starting with So. LHP Grant

Dayton (0-0, 1.29 ERA) on Friday. Florida State will counter with So.

RHP Geoff Parker (1-0, 5.40) and Fr. LHP Sean Gilmartin (1-0, 1.50 ERA)

for the two games in Tallahassee.

“We are looking forward to the challenge of playing a team the

caliber of Florida State this early in the season,” Auburn Head Coach

John Pawlowski said. “It will be a great environment down there and we

will have to play well. For the young guys that have not had an

opportunity to play in the SEC yet, this will be that type of

environment.”

Auburn is 2-2 on the season, winning its season opener against Elon

before dropping the final two games of the opening-weekend series while

Florida State is a perfect 4-0 after outscoring Hofstra, 43-16, in a

four-game series to open the season.

Auburn comes in with a SEC-best 10 home runs after just four games. The

10 homers are the most by an Auburn squad this early in the season

dating back to 1979 while So. OF Trent Mummey’s 10 runs scored is also

the most by an Auburn player this early in a season.

Thursday’s 6pm ET game in Tallahassee will air live on Fox Sports

Florida in north and central Florida only while none of the other three

games will be televised. All four games will air live on radio with the

Thursday, Friday and Sunday games airing on WKKR-FM 97.7 and the

Saturday game airing on WMXA-FM 96.7.

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