UF softball gets fifth win of weekend
By Cassie Amundson | Feb. 26, 2017Freshman Jaimie Hoover was the leadoff hitter in the top of the fourth inning for Florida.
Freshman Jaimie Hoover was the leadoff hitter in the top of the fourth inning for Florida.
Two entirely different offensive performances from the Florida softball team met the same result Saturday afternoon in games three and four of the Citrus Classic in Orlando.
Through her first five appearances in the pitcher’s circle, sophomore Kelly Barnhill has given up 12 hits.
On Monday afternoon, coach Tim Walton received a phone call from Sophia Reynoso.
One day removed from suffering its first loss of the 2017 season, the Florida softball team entered its Aquafina Invitational finale looking for a strong performance against Florida International.
The last time the Gators faced Maryland was in 2014.
Heading into the sixth inning of the second game of a doubleheader, the No. 1 Florida Softball team desperately needed a jolt on offense.
Before the 2017 Florida softball season began, the team all ready featured names well-known throughout the league.
With one out in the top of the third inning, junior Nicole DeWitt stood in the batter's box.
With the Gators up 2-1 in the 10th inning against then-No. 6 Michigan, coach Tim Walton claimed he could hear something in the dugout.
For the fourth consecutive year, the Florida Gators softball team started the year with an undefeated record at the USF-Wilson Demarini Tournament in Tampa.
In 2007, then-second year head coach Tim Walton led a then-No. 17 Florida Gator softball team into Los Angeles for a five-game tournament. Two of those games were against the Illinois State Redbirds.
In 2016’s final regular-season game, then-freshman Kelly Barnhill threw her first no-hitter at the college level.
In 1996, author Linda Ellis published a poem titled “The Dash”.
Every morning, senior Delanie Gourley awakens to a text.
After two previous seasons that saw the Florida Gators softball team take home national championships, calling the end of the 2016 season a disappointment is an understatement.
By Matt Brannon
In 2018, another team can attempt a three-peat.
When Kirsti Merritt tried to save her team, she ran into a wall.
One series separates Florida from punching one of eight tickets to the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City.