Tuesday evening will be a historic night for UCF baseball.
The No. 2 Florida Gators (10-1) will be visiting Jay Bergman Field on UCF campus for what will be the first top ten matchup at home for No. 9 UCF (10-1) in program history.
UCF has enjoyed an extremely successful start to their 2015 campaign, first sweeping Siena, then the South Alabama Tournament and finally taking two of three games from No. 22 Ole Miss this past weekend.
The national rankings have noticed, as well. UCF jumped all the way up to No. 9 in the D1Baseball.com poll on Monday, 14 spots in total. UCF also jumped up to No. 13 from No. 15 in the Baseball America poll.
The last time UCF was ranked in the top 10, was in 2012, when the Knights climbed up to No. 7 in the ESPN/USA Today poll.
UCF will going with freshman right-handed pitched Kyle Marsh (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 1 K) against the Gators, who will be making his first career start. Marsh, who won American Hitter of the Week on Feb. 23, is no stranger to pressure situations thus far in his short UCF career.
Against No. 11 Maryland in the South Alabama Tournament, Marsh recorded the final two outs in a one-run-game with the bases loaded to give UCF the victory.
Florida will be starting senior lefty Bobby Poyner (0-0, 1.93 ERA, 10 K).
The game starts at Jay Bergman Field at 6:30 p.m.
