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Florida outfielder Wyatt Langford was officially named to the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team Tuesday. Langford spent the last week auditioning for the spot among the nation’s top retuning players. Langford was selected from a pool of fifty or so players that completed in five intra-squad scrimmages before the cuts came. Twenty six players made…
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Dominated. Shoved. Dealt. All could describe how Carsten Finnvold performed in one of the best pitching performances in Gators history. Florida Gators baseball will be playing a winner-take-all game against the Oklahoma Sooners on Monday thanks to a nine-inning relief appearance from the southpaw. The huge 7-2 win over OU Sunday night has the Gators…
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The Gators are sitting on the brink. Florida Gators baseball suffered a 9-4 defeat at the hands of Oklahoma in Game 4 of the Gainesville Regional for their first loss of the NCAA Tournament. It’s now win or go home for them and they’ll need three wins to make super regional play. Brandon Neely found…
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The Florida Gators found out Sunday evening that they did enough in last week’s SEC Tournament to earn a national top-16 seed and host NCAA regionals in Gainesville. Monday afternoon, the Gators learned they had been selected as the No. 13 seed in this week’s NCAA Tournament. GAINESVILLE REGIONAL 1️⃣ @GatorsBB 2️⃣ @OU_Baseball 3️⃣ @LibertyBaseball…
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Despite losing by run-rule to Texas A&M just two days earlier, the Florida Gators rebounded by winning when it mattered most to earn a spot in the SEC Tournament Championship Game. Florida trounced the Aggies 9-0 behind a stellar effort from little used LHP Timmy Manning and an offensive explosion. Manning, making his first appearance…
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Florida RHP Brandon Sproat put together the best outing of his career when the Gators needed it most Tuesday night. Facing elimination in the SEC Tournament opener against South Carolina, Sproat threw into the ninth inning and flirted with a no-hitter into the seventh inning despite the game starting roughly six hours late due to…
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Backed by an excellent performance by freshman pitcher Brandon Neely and another powerful showing by the offense, the Florida Gators defeated South Carolina 8-0 to clinch its final series of the 2022 regular season Friday. Neely turned in his best performance of the year by finishing off seven innings of three hit ball. He struck…
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The Florida Gators climbed back to .500 in SEC play with a dominant 14-5 win over South Carolina Thursday to open the final regular season series. The Gators were equally dominant on the mound where Brandon Sproat once again excelled to earn his eighth win of the season. For the second straight game Wyatt Langford…
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The Gators have now faced rival Florida State twice since the opening of Condron Ballpark. Both contests have resulted in memorable walk off wins for the Gators. Tuesday’s win came on a Sterlin Thompson moonshot that sent the crowd into a frenzy as the team celebrated defeating their biggest rival, once again. The win improves…
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Riding the emotions of a six game winning streak while facing the last-placed Missouri Tigers proved daunting to the young Florida baseball team Saturday. The Gators dropped a 5-3 decision to fall to 31-19 and 12-14 in conference play. Missouri improved to 26-21 and 8-18 in SEC action. Florida got out to an early lead…