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No. 5 Florida has a variety of goals it hopes to achieve in the next month, including winning SEC and National Championships. However, Saturday evening served as a moment for the present. A chance to celebrate UF basketball’s stars — senior guards Walter Clayton Jr., Alijah Martin and Will Richard.
A rainy Saturday in Gainesville pushed back the start of a doubleheader between the Florida Gators and Harvard Crimson. Nevertheless, the delays didn’t affect Florida, as it breezed through its Ivy League opponent thanks to some stellar pitching performances and a phenomenal day at the plate, scoring 29 runs combined.
Facing a full count in the top of the first inning, UF junior catcher and single-season RBI record holder Jocelyn Erickson was looking for her first big moment in Florida’s 2025 SEC slate.
Two days before the 53rd Gators Invitational, the Florida women’s golf team found out its upcoming event would have a change in format. Rather than three rounds over three days, the tournament would now feature 36 holes on day one and 18 holes on day two. With rain looming over the Sunday portion of the competition, this was the best way to ensure three complete rounds of play.
Following its brutal loss at Oklahoma on Thursday, Florida (8-7, 3-3 SEC) headed south to the Mitchell Tennis Center in College Station, Texas, on Saturday afternoon to test its luck against No. 15 Texas A&M (10-5, 4-1 SEC).
Saturday morning marked Florida lacrosse’s fourth ranked matchup of the season as it faced Loyola (Maryland) on a rainy day at Donald R. Dizney Stadium. However, one major difference stood out for the Gators: a change in goal.
For the second consecutive year, the Florida Gators women’s basketball team saw its SEC postseason journey end in the quarterfinals. In 2024, it was an unranked Ole Miss squad that sent UF packing. This time around, it was No. 9 LSU.
“She said what? She said stick.”
After retiring the first two batters she faced in the bottom of the seventh, UF freshman pitcher Katelynn Oxley was one out away from sending the game to extra innings, giving her offense another chance to separate.
The drought was over, and the upset was complete. Coaches and players on Florida ran to freshman Nikola Daubnerova in celebration as she delivered Florida its first SEC victory of the season by upsetting No. 9 Texas in the Gators’ first home game in 40 days.
Sophomore right-hander Liam Peterson’s first three outings of the 2025 season were phenomenal. Entering the weekend, he had a 3-0 record with a 1.12 ERA. The Palm Harbor, Florida, native might have outdone himself on Friday night, as he tied his career-high in strikeouts.
When the Gators hit the ice at the Igloo on Wednesday afternoon, they had one goal in mind: reigniting the magic that had propelled them to that moment. It was the spirit of the previous years’ picture-perfect playoff run living on — one that ended with a championship and a promotion to Division I.
The only typical thing is the opening.
Last season, the Florida Gators pulled off one of the more impressive Cinderella runs in the SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament. They skated by the bottom-seeded Missouri Tigers and pulled off an impressive upset against sixth-seeded Vanderbilt before coming up just short against Ole Miss.
The Headington Family Tennis Center seemed to be buzzing with anticipation as two top 25 teams prepared to clash in Norman, Oklahoma.
With less than two minutes to go, the Florida Gators were hanging on by a thread in their SEC Tournament opener. Following a back-and-forth affair with the Auburn Tigers all evening, UF sported a four-point lead in the game’s home stretch. Florida needed one final spark – one last play – to put the game on ice.
Florida sophomore forward Alex Condon grew up playing Australian football and even described it as his “hidden talent.” Despite his rugby skills perhaps being a secret to college basketball fans, his basketball abilities were put on full display Wednesday night.
While the Gators’ lineup consists of power and pop, their heart and determination has seldom been tested in non-conference play this season.
After an 11-0 start to their season, the Florida Gators dropped consecutive games to Miami and UCF. In need of a bounceback, UF leaned on great pitching performances and timely home runs to secure a midweek victory against an in-state rival.
UFPD officers arrested a student during a history lecture Wednesday, pulling him from a class at Keene-Flint Hall in connection with a string of TV thefts from campus buildings and student apartment complexes.
Solutions by The State News
