GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A day after getting shut out by #6 Florida, the Charleston Southern baseball team made up for lost time by scoring a season-high 10 runs; unfortunately, the offensive outburst was not enough, as the Gators topped CSU, 16-10. The Buccaneers led, 9-7, after five and a half innings, but fell after allowing six runs in the bottom of the 6th frame.

Southpaw Charlie McCeady (0-3) gave up 10 runs and took the loss for CSU, while Justin Poovey (1-0) scored the win for Florida after allowing just one run in 2.1 innings on the mound. Jeff Barfield pitched the final two innings for the Gators and earned the save.

The Bucs (5-10) got off and running in the 2nd. With two runners on, Patrick Dolan connected for a three-run home run, his first of the season, putting CSU up, 3-0.

Florida (11-2) drew closer with two runs of their own in the bottom of the inning. A two-run single by Jonathan Pigott put the Gators on the board for the first time. The Gators took their first lead with three runs in the third. All three markers came off the bat of Mike Zunino, who tallied a bases-clearing three-RBI double.

The Bucs used the long ball to tie things up in the 4th inning. This time it was Bentley Christmas who came through with a two-run home run, his first of the season, to even things up at five a piece.

CSU fell behind again, 7-5, before totaling their biggest offensive tally of the day in the 5th inning. The scoring barrage started with Brantley Meier at the plate; the red-hot lead-off man brought a run to the plate with a single to cut the deficit to one run. Two batters later, Nick Chinners gave CSU the lead with a two-run single. Tyler Thornburg followed with a single of his own to make the score 9-7.

Florida's six-run inning doomed the Bucs in the 6th inning. The big hits came off the bats of Matt den Dekker, who notched an RBI triple and Preston Tucker, whose two-run single gave Florida the lead.

Stuart Lake's team drew closer with a run scoring single from Chinners in the 7th, but three Florida runs in the bottom of the 8th put the game out of reach.

Meier was 4-for-5 on the day, while Chinners was 4-for-6. Dolan, Derek Smith and Walt Quattlebaum also tallied multiple hits on the day. Tucker finished the day with five RBI for the Gators, and Zunino finished with four.

The Buccaneers and Gators wrap up their three-game series on Sunday at 1 p.m. Tyler Thornburg is scheduled to pitch for Charleston Southern.