The Florida Gators hosted the Jacksonville University Dolphins in their home opener in Gainesville Tuesday night. The Gators topped the Dolphins 9-1 through six innings.
Freshman pitcher Keagan Rothrock started for the Gators in her third collegiate start and first game in Gainesville. Rothrock continued her freshman campaign with her second win on another day of reliable pitching.
She threw four innings of no-hit softball until Alison Carter doubled in the top of the fifth. She totaled a season high nine strikeouts, three hits, one walk and one run through six innings.
Skylar Wallace started off the Gators’ scoring run when she hit an RBI double to score Kendra Falby and put the Gators up 1-0. The next run came when Jocelyn Erickson singled to score Wallace in the bottom of the third inning.
The first and only run for the Dolphins was an RBI single off the bat of Gabi Robles to lessen the deficit to one run in the top of the fifth.
From there, it was all Gators. They tacked on six runs in the bottom of the fifth.
Korbe Otis drove one out of the park and put two runs on the board for her second home run of the season in her first game in Gainesville.
Wallace scored on a sacrifice fly, and two more Gators scored on back-to-back squeezes. Katie Kistler hustled for a triple to tack on the Gators’ eighth run of the day.
In the bottom of the sixth, Erickson’s RBI double ended the game.
The final score was 9-1.
The Gators will continue their home stretch this weekend in the Bubly Invitational hosted by UF. The Gators take on Georgia Southern at 3 p.m. and Loyola at 5:30 p.m. Friday.
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