Title runs prepared softball team for a successful future
By ADAM BERRY | June 10, 2009It's all about perspective.
It's all about perspective.
UF coaches Kevin O'Sullivan (baseball) and Tim Walton (softball) might as well have slapped hands this past week.
Gray Horn made UF history yet again Wednesday at the NCAA Championships in Fayetteville, Ark.
While all other UF sports have finished, track and field is gearing up for its final meet of the season.
Kevin O'Sullivan's words seemed to hit Brandon McArthur like a eulogy.
There's a lot of coaches not named Meyer or Donovan making headlines at UF.
As you may have noticed, coaches, players and media outlets alike are hopping on the Twitter bandwagon.
The Gators have come from behind to win 27 games this season, but it was their inability to protect a five-run lead that ended their season.
The Gators have come from behind to win 27 games this season, but it was their inability to protect a 6-1 lead that ended their season.
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A season's worth of accomplishments earned UF the No. 8 national seed and the right to host an NCAA Super Regional, but Southern Miss continued to defy the odds in its unlikely run for Omaha, Neb., with a 9-7 victory in McKethan Stadium on Saturday.
Last weekend the Gators vanquished a common foe. Now they must get past an unfamiliar team to continue their journey.
When he came to Gainesville to play for the UF baseball team, Brandon McArthur did not plan to stay for six years.
OKLAHOMA CITY &ndash Replacing the most storied senior class in UF softball history certainly won't be easy for coach Tim Walton and the 13 other players on this year's team.
OKLAHOMA CITY - "Hindsight is 50/50."
OKLAHOMA CITY - Two nights after triumphantly rounding the bases and getting buried at the bottom of a dogpile following her walk-off grand slam against Alabama, Ali Gardiner fell to her knees beside home plate with her head in her hands.
OKLAHOMA CITY &ndash Three big plays and one dominant pitcher put the UF softball team one loss away from falling short of its season-long goal of a national championship.
It was a tale of two teams going in opposite directions.
Miami isn't used to the scene that played out Sunday night.
When Miami last came to town during the final weekend of February, UF freshman Preston Tucker was fighting for playing time and hitting sixth or seventh in the lineup. The 'Canes swept the Gators on that trip.