Florida finishes strong on third day of NCAA Outdoors Championships
By GORDON STREISAND< | June 7, 2013With the end of the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships on the horizon, the Gators needed points to stay in contention.
With the end of the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships on the horizon, the Gators needed points to stay in contention.
After playing in only three games for the Gators during her freshman season due to a foot injury suffered in November, Chandler Cooper decided she needed a fresh start elsewhere.
The Gators are slowly climbing their way up the leaderboard.
Jonathon Crawford might have thrown his last pitch as a Gator.
The NBA is nearing the end of its two-month haul through the postseason, and Miami Heat forward LeBron James has continued his dominance through the Eastern Conference Finals. As James leads his team into the Finals against the San Antonio Spurs, alligatorSports editors Adam Lichtenstein and Landon Watnick will decide which Florida player dominates or dominated his or her game in a LeBron-esque fashion.
From baseball in Miami to football in West Palm Beach and track in Gainesville, junior Eddie Lovett has stayed busy his entire life.
The 2012-13 campaign yielded positive results for Florida, but it ended with a disappointing final act on May 30. The Gators placed 25th at the NCAA championships in Woodstock, Ga.
The first day of the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., had some ups and downs for the Gators.
Tim Walton is a man of the present, not the future.
The season started well.
The Florida men’s golf team had a week to forget at the NCAA Championships in Woodstock, Ga., and Alabama had one it will remember forever.
For the first time since 2010, the Gators are finishing their season at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.
After a five-and-a-half-hour, 15-inning win against Nebraska on Saturday night, Florida had little left to give in its next contest.
It took nearly five and a half hours, but UF survived Nebraska in 15 innings Saturday night to preserve its season.
Florida had plenty of chances.
For Florida, the 2012-2013 season came to a close quite unceremoniously in Woodstock Ga. as the Gators finished with a team total of 857 (+17) to finish 25th at the NCAA Championships on Thursday.
After Florida took a 3-1 lead in the top of the sixth on a three-RBI homer, Austin Peay responded in the eighth with one of its own.
After a disastrous start against Tennessee in the Women’s College World Series, Florida could not recoup.
Last season, Jonathon Crawford made his NCAA Tournament debut in historic fashion.
It took sophomore Marquis Dendy three jumps instead of one to get to Eugene, Ore., for the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships.