No. 19 Duke Falls to No. 9 Florida State in Series Opener

Friday, March 21

Durham, N.C.

6 p.m.

Duke University

21-10

Florida State

27-5

Florida State

Duke

Jada Baker batting vs. Syracuse game three

No. 19 Duke Falls to No. 9 Florida State in Series Opener

3/21/2025 10:26:00 PM | Softball

Box Score

DURHAM, N.C. – No. 19 Duke fell to No. 9 Florida State, 12-4, in five innings in the conference series opener Friday night at Duke Softball Stadium.

Redshirt junior Jada Baker led the offense, batting 2-for-2 on the night with a pair of RBIs. Senior Ana Gold and junior D'Auna Jennings each went 2-for-3 during the contest with one run scored.

Graduate student Dani Drogemuller earned her 12th start of the season and tossed the first 4.0 innings. Junior Sophie Garner-MacKinnon and freshman Hailey Shuler also saw action in the circle against the Seminoles.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Florida State opened the scoring in the top of the first, using a sacrifice fly and an RBI-single to left field to take a quick 2-0 lead.
The Blue Devils answered immediately in the home half after junior KK Mathis reached on a fielding error that allowed Jennings to score from second.
Baker put Duke in front, 3-2, with a two-run home run in the bottom of the second. Her long ball also brought in graduate student Thessa Malau'ulu, who reached on a base hit to right field.
Sophomore Amiah Burgess extended the gap in the following frame with a triple to the left-center field wall to bring in Gold, who led off with a single to center field.
Florida State regained the lead in the top of the fourth after Jaysoni Beachum sent a bases-clearing double to left-center field to make it a 5-4 game.
The Seminoles' offense erupted again in the top of the fifth, plating seven additional runs off six hits and a Blue Devil error to put the game away, 12-4.

NOTES

Baker sent out her second long ball of the season and seventh of her Blue Devil career.
The Longwood, Fla., native recorded her first multi-RBI performance of the year.
Garner-MacKinnon made her 10th appearance of the season, after entering the game in the top of the fifth and reached the 100-career innings pitched milestone.
Drogemuller moves her season ledger to 8-4.
Jennings extended her hitting streak to a team-best six games and tallied her eighth multi-hit outing of the season.

UP NEXT
The Blue Devils and Seminoles continue the three-game series Saturday afternoon. First pitch is set for 1 p.m., and the game will be broadcast on ACC Network with Raine Wilson and Brock Bowling calling the action.

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