For the second time in the Women’s College World Series, No. 5 seed Florida faced 13th-seeded Baylor.
Game, set, match. The Gators have everything they need in order to advance to the next step of their championship taper.
In the end, Florida (40-22) just couldn’t get timely hits after stranding 13 on base, and its season came to a waterlogged end against North Carolina (35-26) losing 5-3.
In the end, they had nobody to blame but themselves. Not the rain that delayed them three hours and fifteen minutes, not the opposing pitchers that let them twice have the bases loaded in consecutive innings, and not the NCAA selection committee that gave them the hardest regional of any national seed.
After four Gators punched their ticket to Eugene, Ore., on the first day of NCAA prelims, 13 more joined the party on Friday.
The Gators are rolling through the competition.
The Gators received their second commitment in as many days.
Out of the 23 UF athletes that commenced their preliminary events, only four thus far have punched a ticket to Eugene, Ore., after Day 1 of NCAA East Preliminaries in Jacksonville on Thursday.
Florida picked up its eighth verbal commitment for the 2015 recruiting class as defensive tackle Andrew Ivie announced that he was verbally committed to UF on Thursday afternoon. Ivie is the first defensive lineman to commit to the 2015 class.
In her first career Women's College World Series at-bat on Thursday, Chelsea Herndon saw a familiar face.
They’re back.
Eight teams remain in the hunt for the title as the top softball team in the country. Each team took different paths to make it, but in the end, they all made it to Oklahoma City. With action beginning today, alligatorSports took a look at each opening-round matchup.
The championship taper has come again as Florida has a grand opportunity at redeeming itself on why it deserves to be No. 1.
As you walk past “Gator Mania” in the Oaks Mall, you take in a storefront that vomits orange and blue. But hanging on a mannequin in a display window is an orange shirt with a blue crab on it that has the No. 5 right in the middle, inviting you to visit ‘Jameis’ famous crab shack emporium.’”
As the season ended for Florida in a devastating 12-11 loss against then-No.5 seed Northwestern (14-7) on May 17, the Gators are already working toward boosting their roster for 2015.
So you probably think Florida’s NCAA baseball regional is a bit difficult for a two-seed, and if that’s the case, you’re most certainly right.
Editor’s Note: A version of this story ran online on May 15.
Unlike many of Florida’s previous tennis teams, this season had no highly acclaimed All-Americans and no trophies to hoist at the end of May.
The UF women’s golf team had a rollercoaster of a season.
It’s my show this week at alligatorSports because our main editor Jonathan Czupryn is at his brother’s graduation.
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