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4-1, UF, Top 5th, 1 on, 1 out...Dayton gave up 2nd solo HR of the night...UF has 9 hits; AU has 1 hit...Weather delay (tornado warning in Auburn)...

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7-7, Bot. 10th...AU has 4 HR in the game running their season total to 73...Hendrix did a great job in top of tenth retiring the side after no hits and one walk...O'Neil went 4.2 innings giving up 5 hits, 2 ER, and 0 BB; he struck out 2....

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Auburn's Justin Hargett hits a home run in the 11th inning to win the

game over Florida 8-7 in a game continued from Friday night.

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Auburn's Justin Hargett is mobbed at home-plate after hitting a game

winning home-run in the 11th inning on a game continued from Friday.

Photo Credit: Todd Van Emst/Auburn University

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Justin Hargett hit a one-out, 11th inning solo home run

to right to propel Auburn to an 8-7 win over Florida in the series

opener on Saturday afternoon at Plainsman Park. Auburn hit five home

runs in the game to up the season total to 74 on the season and erased a

7-1 deficit in the sixth inning off of the Florida bullpen.

Joseph Sanders hit a pair of home runs in the game to up his season

total to 16 on the year while Ben Jones and Brian Fletcher joined

Hargett in hitting shots in Auburn’s fifth five-homer-or-more game of

the season.

The walk-off jack was the second of the season for Hargett, who also

provided a highlight film shot in the season-opening win over Elon on

February 20.

Bradley Hendrix (6-2) earned the win out of the bullpen for Auburn,

tossing the two frames in extra-innings without allowing a base hit,

surrendering just a walk.

Alex Panteliodis, Florida’s sixth pitcher of the game, took the loss to

drop to 2-4.

With the win Auburn moves to 23-10 on the season, 7-6 SEC while Florida

is now 21-12, 7-6 SEC.

The game was the resumption of the Friday night contest in which Florida

led 4-1 before tornado sirens halted the game in the top of the fifth.

Florida came out swinging after the game was resumed, scoring two more

times in the fifth and again in the sixth while Auburn was able to put

up three runs in the bottom of the sixth to make it 7-4.

Chris O’Neil took the mound for Auburn when the game was resumed and was

greeted by an Avery Barnes single to right to put runners at first and

second. Josh Adams followed with one-run double to left before a

groundout scored Barnes to make it 6-1.

A Buddy Munroe leadoff double in the top of the sixth turned into

another run for Florida as he scored on a Mike Mooney sac fly to right

to go up, 7-1.

Auburn started its comeback with a three-run bottom of the sixth as

Sanders cracked his second home run of the game to lead off the inning

and three batters later Fletcher launched a two-run home run over the

batters’ eye in dead center, his ninth of the season, to draw Auburn to

within three, 7-4.

Three straight three-up, three-down half-innings followed before Auburn

found its groove again, scoring twice with two out in the eighth as

Jones smoked his sixth home run of the year and Auburn’s fourth of the

game with Hunter Morris at first following a walk to get back to within

a run at 7-6. Auburn faced three pitchers in the inning as Nick Maronde,

who was on the hill for Florida following the resumption, was lifted

after the Jones blast in favor of Anthony DeSclafani, who walked

Fletcher, before Tony Davis came in and got Kevin Patterson swinging to

strand Fletcher at first.

A two-out walk to Trent Mummey turned into the tying run in the bottom

of the ninth for Auburn as he scored from first on Sanders’ third

extra-base hit of the game, a double to the wall in the canyon in

right-center off of Florida closer Billy Bullock, who was summoned from

the pen to face Sanders.

O’Neil, who did not factor in the decision, threw 4 2/3 innings out of

the pen, allowing two runs on five hits and striking out two.

Auburn had a chance to get back into the game in a hurry as it loaded

the bases on a Jones single, a Fletcher double and a Patterson walk in

the fifth but Maronde was able to get out of the inning by sandwiching

strike outs of Casey McElroy and Trent Mummey around a Hargett pop-up.

Mummey was mere feet from hitting his second grand slam of the year when

he sent one down the right field line that just hooked foul.

The game was resumed at 1pm on Saturday afternoon after tornado sirens

halted play in the fifth with Florida leading 4-1 after tagging Auburn

starter Grant Dayton for four runs on nine hits, two of which were home

runs, while Auburn was only able to tofor one hit, a Sanders home run with one out in the fourth.

Though he did not factor into the decision, Barfield struck out four in

four innings without issuing a walk and only get touched for Sanders’

blast while Dayton was tagged for a third loss in his last four outings.

Florida’s Barnes was at the plate with a 2-2 count when the game was

halted as the tornado sirens blared in the immediate area, prompting an

immediate stoppage in play to clear the stadium.

Florida jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the fourth as Barnes led off the

inning with a home run to right. Josh Adams followed with a double off

the wall in left and scored on Preston Tucker’s single up the middle,

all with none out. Buddy Munroe’s one-out groundout to second scored

Tucker for the 3-0 lead.

Sanders’s 15th home run of the season with one out in the bottom of the

fourth narrowed the gap to 3-1 only to have Florida answer on Matt den

Dekker’s solo homer with one out in the top of the fifth.

Sanders’ 16 home runs is the most by an Auburn player since Todd

Faulkner set the school record by hitting 22 home runs in 2000.

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