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Chomping at the bit for Florida Athletics
Author: Brian D. Fox, Jr.
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Baseball: It looked like Florida baseball had turned a corner. The team managed to light up LSU pitching to the tune of 16 runs on Thursday to stake an early claim to a huge series. Unfortunately, outside of freshman Cory Acton, the offense failed to show up for the remainder of the series. While the…
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D1Baseball.com released their latest Field of 64 projections on Wednesday. The Gators are squarely in the field, however, the latest projection has them traveling to North Carolina as part of the Raleigh Regional, hosted by NC State. The prediction places Florida (25-14, 6-9) in a regional with #11 overall seed, NC State as well as…
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Final: Gators 4, FSU 0 Tallahassee, FL- The Florida softball team avenged an earlier loss to rival Florida State with a 4-0 defeat of the Seminoles on Wednesday. The Gators have now won eight straight and have taken down Top-25 teams a nation leading 13 times this year. The Gators move to 37-9 with the…
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Final: Florida 8, Jacksonville 4 Gainesville, FL- The Gators defeated Jacksonville by an 8-4 score on Tuesday night to sweep the season series. Florida has now won six straight midweek games. The Dolphins actually opened the scoring in the first inning after a pair of singles and a sacrifice fly. However, Florida responded quickly. Brady…
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Florida third baseman Hannah Sipos was named the SEC Player of the Week, the conference announced on Tuesday. The freshman from Cooper City, Florida excelled during the Gators sweep of Texas A&M where she went 7-10, including her first collegiate home run on Friday. Per the SEC press release: SEC Player of the Week –…
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The professional softball league, National Pro Fastpitch held their College Draft on Monday. It’s no surprise that Florida All-Americans Kelly Barnhill and Amanda Lorenz were both selected, however it was a bit surprising that they were taken with the top two overall picks. Kelly Barnhill was chosen with the No. 1 pick by the Chicago…
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Football: Florida’s redshirt (rising) junior QB Feleipe Franks has put all reasonable doubt aside and solidified his place as the Gators starting QB heading into fall camp. Franks was methodical in the annual spring game on Saturday and threw for more than 300 yards and four touchdowns (in fairness, against a very vanilla defense). Franks…
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Final: Florida 1, South Florida 0 A pitchers duel took place on Wednesday at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium as the Gators and Bulls combined for just two hits. Florida managed to score the only run of the game, thanks to timely hitting and a ‘pass the baton’ mentality. The Gators did manage a baserunner in…
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Florida is probably starting to wish that the rival Seminoles were in the SEC. At least, for baseball. The Gators faced FSU head coach Mike Martin for what is likely the final time, and sent the winningest head coach in NCAA baseball history reeling to his eleventh straight defeat (matching his uniform number). The Gators…
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The Florida softball team earned a much needed series sweep of Arkansas this weekend. Kelly Barnhill led the charge in the circle with two complete games and the offense took advantage of several Razorbacks fielding micues in taking the series. Game One: Florida got the 3-0 win despite being limited offensively to only three hits.…
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