Florida hosts trio of teams this weekend
Matches against No. 1 Stanford and No. 8 Minnesota were supposed to be good tests for a Florida team trying to prove that it belonged in the national-title conversation.
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Matches against No. 1 Stanford and No. 8 Minnesota were supposed to be good tests for a Florida team trying to prove that it belonged in the national-title conversation.
It was a game that Florida had been anticipating for eight months. The experienced, freshmen-less team could finally get its season underway.
Florida’s 10th-ranked volleyball team will start its 2019 season with a pair of games against No. 25 Louisville on Friday night and Dayton on Saturday at the Cardinal Classic in Louisville, Kentucky. Here’s what to watch for:
Kelly Barnhill’s phone lit up. It was from Amanda Lorenz.
Pitcher Kelly Barnhill took a step forward, whirled her arm around and fired.
This wasn’t the biggest moment of designated player Jordan Matthews’ collegiate career, but it sure was close.
The Florida softball team came into Saturday’s doubleheader needing to win both games against Mississippi State to not only win the series but to also have a chance at hosting a super regional.
Bottom of the seventh, two outs, bases loaded.
Auburn pitcher Ashlee Swindle entered the game in a hurry.
Auburn second baseman Casey McCrackin settled into the batter’s box in the bottom of the 10th inning with one out and runners at the corners.
Pitcher Kelly Barnhill was in the zone.
The biggest issue that the Florida softball team has faced this season has been getting offensive production from players not named Amanda Lorenz or Kendyl Lindaman.
The Florida softball team faces No. 4 Florida State (38-7) on Wednesday, the first game of a brutal stretch of its schedule where it plays four games in four days against top-five opponents. The Gators (36-9) are coming off a sweep of Texas A&M and are on a seven-game winning streak.
Seniors Kelly Barnhill and Amanda Lorenz were selected with the first and second overall picks, respectively, of the National Pro Fastpitch College Draft on Monday night.
Runners on base and designated player Kendyl Lindaman at the plate in a tight game.
Catcher Kendyl Lindaman looked at Texas A&M pitcher Hannah Mayo’s 3-2 pitch, which was the 14th of the at-bat. The umpire called it a ball, and Lindaman trotted to first.
It was the bottom of the sixth, and neither Florida nor South Florida had scored. The scoreboard at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium showed nothing but zeroes.
The Florida softball team hosts South Florida on Wednesday at 7 p.m., coming off a pivotal weekend sweep of then-No. 14 Arkansas to return to .500 in SEC play.
Coach Tim Walton emphasized that he wanted to see his team take more chances offensively ahead of this weekend’s series against No. 14 Arkansas.
Florida’s softball team walks into its home series against No. 14 Arkansas on a three-game losing streak after being shut out by rival No. 3 Florida State and having lost its first three SEC series of the season.