Florida’s postseason run came to an end on Sunday afternoon, as the three Gators representing the team at the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships at the Hurd Tennis Center of Baylor University in Waco, Texas, fell just short of reaching the finals.
As Kirby Snead stood on the mound, and as two Vanderbilt base runners stood behind him, Florida’s dugout stood on edge.
Lauren Haeger chucked her glove into the air. She had just fired a 67-MPH rise ball to Kentucky’s Ansley Smith on an 0-2 count with two outs in the 7th inning with a 1-0 lead.
Lauren Haeger was five outs away from softball immortality.
A.J. Puk started to walk off the mound.
Less than 12 hours after dropping its Southeastern Conference Tournament opener, the Florida baseball team returned to Hoover Metropolitan Stadium with a new mindset, knowing one more loss would send the team back to Gainesville.
After giving up a late lead in its first match of the Southeastern Conference tournament, Florida faces elimination today.
It was an opportunity described as too good to pass up for former Florida men’s basketball coach Billy Donovan: an opportunity to make the leap to coaching in the NBA, the pinnacle of his profession.
Seven games.
The Florida women’s tennis team had five individuals compete on Wednesday in the first round of the NCAA Singles competition at the Hurd Tennis Center of Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Karolina Vlckova, a sophomore from the Czech Republic, will represent the University of Florida women’s golf team at the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship on Friday.
The Florida men’s basketball team has signed three incoming freshmen to National Letters of Intent who will join the team for the 2015-16 season, giving new coach Mike White his first recruits as head coach of the Gators.
Kevin O’Sullivan has one hope entering the Southeastern Conference tournament this week — that his team saved its best baseball for the end of the year.
The Florida softball team was expected to blow all of its opponents in the Gainesville Regional out of the water.
Despite inclement weather that hung over the 2015 Southeastern Conference Outdoor Championships, the Florida men’s track and field team didn’t let any rain fall on its parade.
The University of Florida men’s golf team is heading back to the NCAA Championship Tournament. First-year head coach JC Deacon and the Gators finished the NCAA Regional in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at 9-under-par locking up a fourth place finish.
With the top-ranked UF softball team already in the midst of the NCAA Tournament and the sixth-ranked UF baseball team beginning postseason play in the Southeastern Conference Tournament on Wednesday, the alligatorSports staff will be busy live-tweeting the events over the next month.
The No. 5 Florida women’s tennis team had its season come to a close in the NCAA quarterfinals on Sunday, falling 4-3 to No. 4 Vanderbilt at the Hurd Tennis Center at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Florida had nothing going offensively Sunday.
In his final regular season game and with his family watching from the stands, Josh Tobias rounded the bases one last time.
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