Notebook: softball coach looking for more quality at-bats, clutch hitting
By Patrick Pinak | Feb. 19, 2015While the UF softball team has had no problem driving in runs this season, Florida has left its fair share of runs on the basepaths.
While the UF softball team has had no problem driving in runs this season, Florida has left its fair share of runs on the basepaths.
Florida’s pitching is dominant – so dominant, that even UF’s own hitters will tell you that they hate facing the Gators’ trio of pitchers in practice.
Lauren Haeger would probably want to follow the advice of the late Ernie Banks.
In his 10th season as the Florida softball head coach, Tim Walton etched numbers 500 and 501 in the win column Saturday.
With the game on the line, Kirsti Merritt ran back toward the warning track.
If there was one word that would describe what kind of player Nicole DeWitt, it would be versatile.
Lauren Haeger and the Gators were too much the Dolphins to handle, as No. 1 UF routed Jacksonville 16-1 on Wednesday night at the Debbie and Fred Pruitt Softball Complex in Jacksonville.
Equipped with an electric offense, the UF softball team stormed into Tampa and won every game they played to open up the season — highlighted by a Gator lineup that clobbered eight home runs in five games.
Taylore Fuller must have remembered what she did on Feb. 8, 2014 as she stepped up to the plate.
Aleshia Ocasio couldn’t have asked for a better start to her Florida career.
Florida softball was firing on all cylinders in its season opener against Hampton as the Gators run ruled the Lady Pirates by a score of 17-0 in five innings Friday afternoon in Tampa at the USF Softball Classic.
Every once in a while, there is an athlete who goes into a program and becomes an impact player from the get-go.
Lauren Haeger has been a staple in the UF softball lineup and pitching rotation since she was a freshman.
Delanie Gourley was an anomaly entering her freshman season on the UF softball team.
Florida’s softball team is deep.
One of the hardest things to do in sports is being able to repeat as champions.
Gator softball has been great for the past decade – one could even call them dominant.
Hannah Rogers has proven time and time again her value to the Florida softball team.
Kelsey Stewart’s season may not be over just yet.
A line of orange-and-blue clad Gator fans stood outside Katie Seashole Pressley Stadium and down Hull road waiting to greet the school’s newest national champions.