Singles spell doom for Florida against Texas A&M
By Zachary Huber | Mar. 9, 2020
Florida defended its home course this weekend and dominated the Vystars Gators Invitational at Mark Bostick Golf Course, winning its second-straight tournament by 18 strokes.
Coach Shelton said that Florida’s goal is to repeat as SEC regular-season champions.
There’s been a theme that’s echoed by almost every Florida gymnast and coach this season.
I’m not going to sit here and sugarcoat it.
It was the softball version of Tinder: a bunch of singles.
Sunday’s switch to daylight savings time left the Gators, Bulls and audience in a stupor – until Nathan Hickey woke everyone up.
Trinity Thomas could have folded under the pressure.
At the beginning of Saturday night’s broadcast, the commentators relayed coach Mickey Dean’s message to his team after it lost Game 1 of its SEC debut. The Tigers would have to have “sports amnesia” to tie their series with the Gators.
The last time Jack Leftwich started on the mound, he allowed six hits and six earned runs in three innings of work against Troy.
Andrew Nembhard caught the inbounds pass from Keyontae Johnson on his opponent’s side of the court with just 3.1 seconds left in the regular season.
For 15 minutes, it appeared High Point would maintain steady control of Saturday’s game. Florida’s defense couldn’t find an answer to the Panthers’ repeated counter-attacks, and the offense struggled to evade pressure early-on.
Florida returned to Gainesville after a two game trip in Alabama to face LSU and host its first SEC game of the season.
Florida went for the kill shot in the first inning.
It was a battle between the most dominant predators of two different biomes — the swamp and the jungle.
Friday night’s game against Auburn served as trial by fire for freshman pitcher Rylee Trlicek.
The Gators muzzled the Bulldogs on the defensive side of the court on Wednesday night.
While Florida students enjoyed Spring Break, coach Tim Walton enjoyed dominant defense.
Florida’s pitching staff silenced the Florida A&M bats for all nine innings.