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Volini hurls a gem, Fisher blasts grand slam as No. 5 FSU Baseball remains undefeated with 10-1 win

On3 imageby:Corey Clark•03/07/25•

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FSU pitcher Joey Volini. (Gene Williams/Warchant)

No ace. No problem.

Saturday starter Joey Volini was moved up a day with All-American Jamie Arnold out with an illness and pitched like an All-American himself as the No. 5 Florida State baseball team improved to 14-0 with a 10-1 win over Lipscomb on Friday night.

In his postgame comments, Jarrett reference the scratch of Arnold saying, “He’s fine, his arm is fine.” Adding, “He didn’t feel 100% when he got here today and I wouldn’t let him pitch.”

Volini threw a career-high seven innings, allowing six hits and one run while walking one and striking out a career-high 11 as the Seminoles opened the weekend series with an emphatic victory.

Florida State opened the scoring in the first inning when Max Williams, fresh off a four-hit game on Wednesday, lined an RBI double to left-center field. He then came around to score on a wild pitch to give the Seminoles a 2-0 lead after one.

Lipscomb got one back in the top of the second on a Ryan Austin opposite field home run that hit off the top of the fence and bounced over. It was just out of the reach of FSU left fielder BJ Gibson, who was shaken up on the play after slamming into the fence but remained in the game.

Good thing, too, for the Seminoles because the two-sport athlete came around to score in the bottom of the inning. He worked a walk after falling behind in the count, advanced to third on a Myles Bailey singled and then both freshmen came around to score on Alex Lodise’s bloop single to right to make the score 4-1.

That’s how it stayed until the bottom of the sixth inning.

Gibson worked another walk after getting down 0-2, Gage Harrelson also walked and Lodise was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Williams struck out on three pitches, and Cal Fisher, who already had two doubles in the game, got into a two-strike hole before delivering his biggest hit of the season to date.

The sophomore third baseman lifted a deep fly ball to left that just cleared the fence for his first homer of the year. And it happened to be a grand slam that blew the game wide open.

The Seminoles added another run in the seventh on a two-out RBI single by Harrelson and then another in the eighth on a home run to right center from Williams, who seemed to stare down the home plate umpire as the ball sailed into night — obviously still upset from the called third strike on his previous at-bat.

Williams now has six hits in his last two games and five have gone for extra bases. Other than the strikeout in the seventh inning, he hit the ball over 100 mph in every at-bat.

Joe Charles came on and pitched the final two innings for the Seminoles, allowing no runs while striking out four. He and Volini combined for 15 strikeouts on the night.

Williams, Harrleson, Fisher and Bailey all had multi-hit games for the FSU offense and Gibson drew three walks.

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