Ospreys cool off Dolphins to win second River City Rumble series of 2026

The University of North Florida baseball team checked off a bunch of boxes May 1-3 with their home series against Jacksonville University.

The Ospreys won the series two games to one with their 10-0 victory on May 3 in the rubber match, a game that ended after seven innings. That gave them five victories in six meetings with the Dolphins this season and cooled off a red-hot JU team that had responded to getting swept by UNF at home by winning 13 of 15 games.

University of North Florida junior Jackson Toberman has hit three homers and driven in nine runs in six games against Jacksonville this season.

UNF (26-20, 17-7) has a 3.5-game lead with six to play over Florida Gulf Coast in the ASUN Graphite Division and is two games ahead of Gold division leader North Alabama (15-9) in a race for the ASUN regular season title.

The Ospreys now have the tie-breaker in the season series with three of their closest rivals in the ASUN Graphite Division, FGCU (29-17, 13-10), JU (26-20, 13-11) and Stetson (18-29, 9-14).

UNF plays at Queens (13-33, 9-15) on May 8-10 and concludes the regular season at home against West Georgia (13-35, 10-14) on May 14-16.

And as a bonus, the series win over the Dolphins clinched the River City Rumble all-sports competition for North Florida for the third year in a row and the seventh time in the last eight years.

What happened in the UNF-JU series?

Game 1, UNF 5, JU 4: After a ninth-inning rally by the Dolphins to tie the game 3-3, the Ospreys won when Jackson Toberman singled up the middle to score pinch-runner Seth Alford with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth. Sean Benjamin of Fernadina Beach started the rally with a one-out double.

The Dolphins trailed 4-1 but tied the game on RBI doubles by Blake Edmonds and Sammy Mummau and an RBI ground out by Cade Walter.