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 UF softball team was trying to avoid the sweep as it trailed 3-0 in the sixth inning on Saturday. Sophia Reynoso and Alex Voss stood on second and third with one out, presenting Florida’s best scoring opportunity of the day against Alabama.
The moods in the home and visiting dugouts were polar opposites.
Kendyl Lindaman faced a 3-2 count against Alabama pitcher Sarah Cornell with two outs in the fifth during the second game of Friday night’s doubleheader.
The Florida-Alabama softball rivalry is one of the fiercest in the Southeastern Conference.
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.
The wind blew in Jordan Roberts’ face as she stepped into the batter’s box during the top of the third inning.
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.
The margin was as thin as a blade of grass for Texas A&M on May 26, 2018.
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.
Jade Caraway jogged to second base.
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