All but two of the players selected to The Tallahassee Regional All-Regional Team hailed from either FSU or MSU, with Bulldog pitcher Justin Pigott taking the honors as the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Pigott was the winning pitcher in game one of the one vs. two matchup, after allowing only 3 hits and no runs to the Seminoles through 7 innings in Saturday night's 3-0 shutout.

Tonight it was senior Josh Johnson who got the win on the mound with 6 innings, 5 hits, 4 runs, 2 walks and 6 strikeouts. But it was a balanced effort as MSU recorded 14 hits in tonight's 9-4 win, with right fielder Mitch Moreland finishing 2-for-4 with three RBI.

For Florida State it was junior right fielder Jack Rye who made the most noise at the plate, finishing an identical 2-for-4 with three RBI, but his two hits were both home runs. The Seminoles' best shot at a rally came in the seventh inning, down three, two out and the bases loaded. Rye came to the plate but was unable to come through this time, grounding out to the second baseman.

Danny Rosen (2-2) took the loss for the Seminoles. He finished 2 and 2/3 innings, 6 hits, 6 runs, 2 walks and 3 strikeouts. The junior's downfall came when he hit two batters and walked another to load the bases in what would prove to be a game-defining third inning. The Tribe gave up three runs in the frame and never could come back from the deficit.

Despite the loss Florida State finishes a noteworthy 49-13 and set a new ACC record with a .350 batting average for the season. The new mark surpassed Georgia Tech's average of .347 back in 2001.

Mississippi State has now played the role of postseason spoiler twice this year against the Seminoles. The Bulldogs also knocked FSU's basketball team out of the NIT.

Mississippi State Head Coach
Ron Polk

"I'm proud of the boys. You know, Florida State, I just told Mike (Martin), is such a great ball club with great tradition and a great home record. I think it's a credit to our players. I think they played extremely well these three games."

"Our pitching has been outstanding for the last two, three weeks and we had to hit and we did tonight. We made the plays. I'm proud of the guys. It's a good win for us and at the same time, I've lost games at home and I felt great for our kids, but I looked across the way and I felt bad for them because they had such a great year."

Florida State Head Coach
Mike Martin

"It's always the hardest thing, the end of the season and you have a group of young men that have represented themselves in such a first class manner. It's always difficult, it never gets easy. Like I told them, it was a good year. You look back and you can't take anything away from what they accomplished."

"Certainly there's an empty feeling because we did not achieve the goal that we set for our team but that's certainly not to take away from the accomplishments of these three young men (Jack Rye, Tony Thomas Jr., Brandon Reichert). We could certainly be without all of them next year. We will definitely be without Brandon and with the year Tony and Jack had, there are certainly going to be opportunities for them in professional ball."

"I mean this club played solid baseball. We got beat tonight. I don't want to minimize the fact that things didn't go exactly the way we wanted them. Certainly, we're disappointed, we lost but you know, there are a whole lot of folks that are disappointed today. There's going to be a lot of folks tomorrow that are disappointed. This ball club brought me so much satisfaction."

All-Regional Team

C Buster Posey (FSU)
1B Brandon Reichert (FSU)
2B Brandon Turner (MSU)
3B Russ Sneed (MSU)
SS Mark Hallberg (FSU)
OF Jeffrey Rea (MSU)
OF Jack Rye (FSU)
OF Shane Jordan (Stetson)
P Justin Pigott (MSU)
P Ryan Strauss (FSU)
DH Braedyn Pruitt (Stetson)