Tennis teams open SEC play with Kentucky
By JOSEPH R. HOLZER | Mar. 5, 2009Following its first road win of the spring, the No. 9 UF men's tennis team returns to Gainesville as the best in the state.
Following its first road win of the spring, the No. 9 UF men's tennis team returns to Gainesville as the best in the state.
Although the UF women's golf team will be a couple of hours away from Gainesville, it will feel very much at home in this weekend's tournament.
In a way, UF was victorious in the Southeastern Conference Indoor Championships. The team didn't win the championship trophy in Lexington, Ky., but it got the next best thing - experience.
The Gators aren't exactly used to this.
Wednesday night in Starkville, Miss., a small city that just 24,000 people call home, the UF men's basketball team's season died quietly in its sleep.
Anthony DeSclafani headed to the dugout in the sixth inning after giving up his first hit of the night and could only watch as the bullpen gave the game away.
The sky may have finally hit the ground for the Gators.
Walking away with a conference victory on Wednesday was something Santa Fe College baseball coach Johnny Wiggs and his team focused on.
UF coach Tim Walton announced at his weekly press conference Tuesday morning that senior center fielder Kim Waleszonia suffered a tibial plateau fracture in her left knee and will likely not be back on the field for the No. 2 Gators until the postseason.
For someone who was projected to be the closer, Jeff Barfield turned in an impressive start.
No one is confusing Nick Calathes with Joe Namath, but this as close to a guarantee as you're going to get from the Gators this season.
It's hard to see it behind her meek smile.
Some may be searching for what went wrong all of a sudden or when everything just went bad.
You know the feeling you get when you're trying to impress somebody, and you're hoping more than anything else you don't mess up?
A white Hyundai Sonata cruises onto the turnpike blaring country music through scenic Pennsylvania.
The transition from high school to college hasn't been an easy one for Ray Shipman.
Some lessons don't need to be stressed over and over again by a coach.
March is finally here, and that means three wonderful things have arrived: Spring Break, March Madness and Spring Training.
The UF men's tennis team will attempt to avenge two losses when it hits the Scott Speicher courts against FSU today.
UF's women's tennis team managed to win its last two matches with only five scholarship players, but was unable to pull out a third, as the Gators lost to Florida State, 5-2, on a windy Saturday at the Scott Speicher Tennis Center.