Baseball's Panteliodis Named SEC Freshman Of The Week
Monday, March 23, 2009 | Baseball
University of Florida left-hander Alex Panteliodis (Tampa, Fla.) was chosen as the Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week on Monday after two scoreless appearances spanning 8.1 innings last week in which he registered seven strikeouts and issued one walk. The Gators won all five of their outings, highlighted by a sweep of SEC Eastern Division rival Tennessee at McKethan Stadium.
The southpaw held No. 17 Florida State scoreless over 4.1 innings on St. Patrick's Day in his fifth career start, the longest a Florida pitcher has gone into a game without allowing an earned run against the Seminoles since March 30, 2005. Panteliodis' five strikeouts matched his season total entering the game and the Gators used a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the ninth from junior Buddy Munroe (Miami, Fla.) to post a 5-4 victory over FSU.
In Sunday's finale against Tennessee, Panteliodis made his first relief appearance and tossed four scoreless innings as the Gators overcame a pair of three-run deficits to notch a 7-5 victory. The win enabled Florida to collect its first sweep of the Vols since March 28-30, 2003. In a team-high 26.1 innings this season, Panteliodis is 2-2 with a 4.44 earned run average and has 12 K.
The Gators received other good news with the release of the Collegiate Baseball poll, as head coach Kevin O'Sullivan's squad went from unranked to 23rd after a perfect 5-0 week. The polls from Baseball America, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) and USA Today/ESPN will be released later this afternoon.
UF returns to action on Tuesday at 7 p.m. by traveling to Jacksonville to face UNF (8-15). Freshman RHP Anthony DeSclafani (Freehold, N.J.) (1-0, 5.02) will draw the start against Osprey junior lefty Michael Kelly (0-1, 6.75).
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