Matthew Corpas

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• July 13, 2020

They say lightning never strikes the same place twice.  That may be true, but in early February, the stars aligned perfectly twice in three days for Florida SouthWestern’s Noah Heisler and the Bucs’ sophomore took advantage, bringing us to our #5 moment on our countdown of the Top 10 moments of the FSW Athletics year- Heisler’s back to back extra innings walk-offs. 

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• April 10, 2020

The Florida SouthWestern State Baseball team was one day away from reaching the midpoint of their 2020 season when it was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, despite the shortened campaign, the Bucs put together plenty of highlight worthy moments, ultimately finishing the year at 16-11.

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• March 09, 2020

The Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers' defense let them down Monday night at City of Palms Park, committing a season high five errors in an 8-4 loss to visiting Hillsborough to even up their three game Suncoast Conference season at a game apiece.  

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• March 07, 2020

One season ago, the Florida SouthWestern State Baseball team stole a school record 13 bases in a game against the Hillsborough Hawks. Saturday, they were at it again against their Suncoast Conference rivals, swiping 12 bags and exploding for 13 runs in the final four innings to hammer the Hawks 15-5 in the first of a three game series between the two.

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• February 29, 2020

The Florida SouthWestern State Baseball team is going to hope that there were a few more February 29ths than there actually are, as the Bucs snapped out of a mini slump Saturday afternoon on Leap Day with a dominating 12-1 run rule victory over the #18 Miami Dade Sharks to send themselves into Suncoast Conference action on Monday on a high note.

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• February 24, 2020

The Florida SouthWestern State Baseball team put together a wild turnaround Monday night at City of Palms Park in Fort Myers, going from 6-2 down to winning 16-6 two innings later, improving to 12-6 on the year with the run rule victory in eight innings against ASA Miami. 

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• February 22, 2020

Four pitchers combined on a no-hitter Saturday afternoon for the Florida SouthWestern State Baseball team as the Buccaneers blanked Elev8 Academy 9-0 to improve to 11-6 on the year. 

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• February 16, 2020

The script flipped for the Florida SouthWestern State Baseball team on Sunday as instead of coming from behind themselves, Miami Dade came back on them, using three 8th inning FSW errors to score three runs in a 6-4 to drop the Bucs to 9-6 on the year.  

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• February 15, 2020

The comeback kids did it again on Saturday, as the Florida SouthWestern State Baseball team came from three runs down in the final two innings to defeat St. Johns River 8-6 to improve to 9-5 on the year.  

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• February 14, 2020

The Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers Baseball team wrapped up day one at the Capital City Bank Classic 1-1 on Friday, falling to #7 Northwest Florida State 3-0 in their opener before defeating Gulf Coast State 12-5 in the night cap of their split doubleheader.  

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• February 12, 2020

One week ago, the Florida SouthWestern State Baseball team needed extra innings to knock off the Broward Seahawks at City of Palms Park in Fort Myers.  Wednesday, that would not be the same story as five Buccaneer pitchers held the Seahawks to just three hits and the FSW offense put up 10 runs over the final four innings of the contest as the Bucs hammered Broward on their home field 11-1. 

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• February 09, 2020

One thing the 2020 version of the Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers Baseball team has taught us early in the season is, you better not leave the ballpark early, no matter what the score is.  For the third time in two days, the Bucs mounted a furious late game comeback Saturday night, erasing a 6-3 ninth inning deficit against national power San Jacinto, to tie it in their final at bats and then win it 7-6 in extra innings on a walk off single from Tommy Joseph at 1:05 Sunday morning. 

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• February 05, 2020

It wasn't the prettiest, but the end result was the day's goal Wednesday night as the #20 Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers Baseball team took on the Broward Seahawks at City of Palms Park in Downtown Fort Myers.  After jumping out to a 3-1 lead after an inning of play, the Bucs led for eight innings before watching their lead evaporate in the ninth to send the game to extra innings. That's when Noah Heisler came up with the biggest swing of his young FSW career, lacing a single through the hole on the left side for a walk off RBI single to give the Bucs a 6-5 win to even their record at 3-3 on the year.  

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• February 02, 2020

Florida SouthWestern State righthander Mason Adams was super on Super Bowl Sunday at City of Palms Park in Fort Myers, throwing six scoreless innings to pave the way for a 4-1 FSW win over Gulf Coast State to close out the 2020 Marissa Gusto Memorial Tournament.

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• January 31, 2020

A season ago, the Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers had to get creative in scoring their runs.  The Bucs led the state in walks, hit batters, and stolen bases in 2019, but early on in 2020, it doesn't look like runs will come at such a premium for them.  Friday night #20 FSW pounded out 13 hits and got four solid innings of work out of their bullpen to push past ASA-Miami 7-3 in their opening game of the Marissa Gusto Memorial Tournament to even up their early season record at 1-1. 

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• October 03, 2019

Perfect Game released its Top 100 Incoming Juco Freshmen list on Monday and the Florida SouthWestern State Buccaneers were well represented.  Three Bucs cracked the top 51 on the list as Matthew Corpas was the top ranked FSW player at #34, Erick Figueroa checked in just behind him at #39 and Daniel Maldonado at #51.