Women's team improves in Kiawah Island Intercollegiate, takes fourth place
By ANTHONY CHIANG | Feb. 24, 2009Despite not winning the tournament, the UF women's golf team will return to Gainesville a better squad.
Despite not winning the tournament, the UF women's golf team will return to Gainesville a better squad.
For someone who had not pitched in a game in close to two years, Justin Poovey showed very little rust.
BATON ROUGE, La. - Maybe Marcus Thornton had an extra helping of Wheaties on Tuesday morning.
The Gators are still searching for a signature win to hang their NCAA tournament resume on.
Coming off a sweep of a top-25 team and with a weekend matchup with perennial powerhouse Miami looming, UF cannot overlook its weekday games sandwiched in between.
The second round of the Kiawah Island Intercollegiate in South Carolina on Monday gave the UF women's golf team a chance at instant redemption after a difficult first round Sunday.
Six weeks after UF quarterback Tim Tebow announced his intent to lead his team to a third national championship in four years, a different group of Gators athletes quietly beat him to it.
It was a win-or-go-home scenario for the Santa Fe College men's basketball team Monday.
The Santa Fe College women's basketball team finished its regular season with a solid home victory against Florida Community College at Jacksonville on Monday.
Seconds can mean the difference between millions of dollars.
Golf may be an individual sport, but the Gators are going to need a better team effort if they are going to succeed this season.
UF coach Rhonda Faehn said last week that the Alabama meet might provide the best gymnastics the O'Connell Center saw all year.
Clayton Pisani had not scored a run, and Mike Mooney had not recorded a hit all series against No. 23 Louisville. Then came the bottom of the ninth Sunday.
For the UF softball team, the difference between a win and a loss might be the difference between facing great pitching and the best pitching.
The No. 11 UF men's tennis team continued its dominance over in-state rivals with a 5-2 win against Miami on Sunday.
In a four-day 2009 SEC Championship meet that came down to the very last relay, the No. 5 UF women won their 17th SEC crown, the first since 2002, after edging out second-place finisher Auburn and third-place Georgia. The win for the Gators was the third-closest competition in SEC history, UF with 744 points, Auburn with 730.5 and Georgia with 725. On the men's side, the No. 8 Gators claimed second place (626) at the 2009 league meet for the eighth-consecutive year to the men's team from Auburn (880.5).
Sha Brooks and Marshae Dotson had that look in their eyes - the one that says they're not going to be denied.
One of my favorite movie scenes is the Blues Brothers clip where Jake (John Belushi) begs to avoid the wrath of his former girlfriend.
For the first time this season, Nick Calathes didn't steal the show.
Two straight UF losses snowballed to three in a hurry Thursday night.