Last year, Florida’s women’s tennis team fell to Vanderbilt in the championship match of the SEC tournament. This year, it was more of the same.
For the second night in a row, the Gators gymnastics team held the same narrative. Similar to its performance at the NCAA Championships on Friday, it all came down to the floor routine if Florida wanted to stay afloat in the Super Six team finals on Saturday night in St. Louis, Missouri.
With snow flurries in the air, the Gators lacrosse team was able to endure the cold conditions, as well as a challenge from the Denver Pioneers, to walk out of Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium as the 2018 Big East regular-season champions.
Florida’s softball team mobbed left fielder Amanda Lorenz as she hopped on home plate in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Through nine holes, it looked like UF might stage an upset in match play of the SEC Tournament, going up 3-2 against Arkansas on Saturday. Down the stretch, however, the Gators couldn’t pull it off.
Wil Dalton tapped his right cleat with the barrel of his bat after watching strike three blow past him.
In Florida’s match against Arkansas on Saturday, one could not spell “clincher” without senior Josie Kuhlman.
It was more of the same for the Florida women’s golf team during Round 3 of the SEC Tournament on Friday: not terrible, but certainly left a lot to be desired.
Last Saturday, senior Peggy Porter could only watch helplessly as she lost the decisive singles match in Florida’s 4-3 defeat against Vanderbilt to end the regular season.
In her first at-bat of the night, Amanda Lorenz stepped up to the plate with confidence.
In her final pass on floor, freshman Alyssa Baumann carried a heavy burden.
When Victoria Emma takes the court this morning against LSU for the quarterfinal round of the SEC Tournament, there won’t be a smile on her face.
It started out with three runs. Then 12. Then another four. All in just three innings.
The defending Big East champion Florida lacrosse team has looked the part during its tear through league play in 2018. Winner of five straight games, UF now has an opportunity to seal its fourth consecutive Big East title as it travels to Denver to take on the Pioneers on Saturday afternoon at 2 EST.
Alicia Boren isn’t one to make predictions.
A funny thing happened during Tuesday night’s baseball game between Florida and Jacksonville.
Wil Dalton busted the game open in the third inning. His three-run homer gave the No. 1 Gators an insurmountable six-run lead the No. 6 Kentucky Wildcats couldn’t touch. But his at-bat wasn’t the night’s most memorable.
If some was bad, more was worse for the Florida women’s golf team on Thursday at Greystone Golf and Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama.
The No. 1 Gators (32-7, 12-3 SEC) dropped a midweek matchup to Jacksonville on Tuesday to snap a nine-game home winning streak. With Florida’s next series starting tonight against Kentucky rather than the normal Friday start due to television scheduling, coach Kevin O’Sullivan had to work around using certain bullpen players, including closer Michael Byrne and freshmen Tommy Mace and Jordan Butler.
UF first baseman Kayli Kvistad jogged up the first-base line.
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