A night after Florida State needed a late rally and extra innings to win, the Seminoles jumped on Miami starter Lazaro Collera early.

Cal Fisher and Brayden Dowd had RBI singles in the second and Hunter Carns had a solo home run in the third as FSU defeated Miami 11-1 in eight innings on Friday night to take the series. Fisher had three RBI to lead FSU.

FSU has won five of the last six regular-season series against Miami, including three straight under coach Link Jarrett. The Seminoles (38-15, 19-10 ACC) will go for the sweep on Saturday.

Trey Beard (6-1) had one of his best starts, allowing just one earned run on four hits in six innings. The left-hander worked around an error in the fifth, getting a strikeout and flyout to end the inning. He had eight strikeouts and gave up just one walk, lowering his ERA to 4.78.

Brodie Purcell then struck out the side in the seventh and stranded a pair of runners while striking out two in the eighth. Combined, they had 13 strikeouts.

It wasn’t a win of beauty. FSU walked 13 times but stranded 14 runners — including the bases loaded in the third, fourth and fifth innings. But the Seminoles tacked on five runs in the eighth to complete the run-rule win on Gabe Fraser’s single.

Every Seminole except for Dowd scored a run.

Early on, FSU pieced together a three-run second inning, benefitting when Fraser was hit by the first pitch and went to second on a wild pitch. Eli Putnam singled to center, advancing Fraser, and then Putnam advanced to second on the throw home.

Carter McCulley then had a sacrifice fly, Cal Fisher added an RBI single and Brayden Dowd added an RBI single.

Carns had a solo home run in the third — a rocket over the center-field wall 393 feet — and John Stuetzer drew a bases-loaded walk, but the Seminoles couldn’t do more damage.

The Seminoles had opportunities to put the game far out of reach, perhaps even to run-rule Miami if they had hit well with runners on base, but in the end those chances were frustrating to FSU but not ultimately harmful.

Fisher also had an entertaining 15-pitch at-bat, fouling off a few lasers before lining out to left field in the sixth.

Max Galvin went 3 for 4 for Miami, which had just five hits and committed three errors. Still, the Hurricanes made some good defensive plays as center fielder Michael Torres elevated to rob Carns at the wall of either a home run or an extra-base hit in the first inning.

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