FIU opens its 2018 baseball season this weekend against visiting Missouri with two highly anticipated debuts, both by the same player — Logan Allen as the starting first baseman Friday and Allen as a starting pitcher Saturday.
Allen, a freshman from Orange City’s University High, was named The Daytona Beach News Journal’s Player of the Year all three times in his three-year varsity career.
In two of those years, he won his state semifinal matchup as a starting pitcher only to have his University team lose in the championship game. And in his final high school game, he beat Miami Palmetto 4-0 in the 2017 state semifinal, pitching a no-hitter, slugging a homer and driving in all four runs.