Softball Takes First Game; Baseball Starts Against Bethune-Cookman
by mlmintampa on May 29, 2009 1:51 AM EDT
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No. 1 Gator Softball moves into the winner's bracket after a 3-0 defeat of No. 9 Arizona at the Women's College World Series. After the Wildcats had two hits in the first, pitcher Stacey Nelson shut the door while Francesca Enea and Megan Bush added homers. The ESPN crew broadcasting spent much of the game impressed by Nelson. Apparently they were unaware she has won FORTY GAMES. Nelson's 7 IP, 2 H, 3 BB, 12 K is what she has been doing all season. Nelson and the Gators get No. 5 Michigan Friday night.
No. 8 Gator Baseball (39-20) begins NCAA play Friday night against Bethune-Cookman (32-26). While Bethune is the fourth seed in the regional, they will throw down. Their starter is Hiram Burgos (6-3, 3.73) who has 88 K in 72.1 IP. He also threw six scoreless against Miami on May 8. This is no slouch. Florida's starter will be determined today.
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I think the reason ESPN kept going on about the effort is simply because she was doing it against the #1 offense in the country.
Also, I thought they dwelled on Enea’s lack of ACL way too much also.
Go Gators- avenge the ’07 Capital One Bowl for the football team!!!
wow - double victory
A 1 run come from behind win for the baseball team and a 1-0 one hitter for the softball team……it’s great to be a Florida Gator.
Damn straight. (I do wish the softball team would score on something other than HR – it makes me just a touch nervous to be relying on super pitching and the long ball. But as long they win I can’t really complain, now can I?)
This is true
We need to start scoring more runs!!
Alabama is crushing Arizona right now in the losers bracket…
And UGA knocked off Mizzou earlier. (Arizona’s hitting just hasn’t made it to the park in the CWS – despite, I believe, leading the nation in BA this season, they’ve managed only four hits in nine innings so far.)
Arizona
Was #1 in batting average, scoring & slugging percentage…yet that translated to ZERO runs in two shutouts by SEC teams. The tide is turning in college softball – from the Pac 10 to the SEC….
I never like seeing errors, of course – but it’s worse against Bama, since their win over UF was significantly helped by fielding mistakes. So the vibe is kinda bad, you know?
What loss?!?!!?
Come on Rex….you didn’t lose the faith did you?
This team is money. I have said it a lot this season, but wow. I had some hope that Megan Bush could have tied it up, but was not confident at all with Garnder struggling at the plate all series (0-9).
The funny part is she thought she hit a game-ending pop up to left, but it just kept going….a walk-off salami – what a way to make it to to the championship game!
I have to admit I stopped watching on the tube after that ugly-ass top of the fifth, so reminiscent of the third quarter against Ole Miss, the way things just went so wrong so suddenly and so stupidly. (Also, the ESPN crew couldn’t have been more pro-Bama if they had been wearing houndstooth in the booth.) But I was still keeping on eye on things online – when I saw that there were two on with Megan Bush coming up, I thought ‘hmm, a homer could tie it up. Not likely though, I guess, not with two outs.’ Then I flipped over to check out the Miami game… and flipped back to see that softball had gone final… and it took a very long moment for my brain to absorb the numbers.
A walk-off grand slam, with two outs, down three, from a batter hitting 0-9 in the tournament? That’s multiple-laterals-on-a-final-second-hail-mary-for-a-TD territory.
Good thing
I did not like the thought of playing Alabama again after midnight….they appeared to figure out Nelson after seeing her fir the 5th time (or 14th time for the seniors!).
Although they are getting worked early – I would love to face UGA for the title, Could you think of anything better? We played them twice this year and won 15-0 and 4-0. I’d like the odds better than against UWash, who we beat 1-0 this season.
I like our odds against anyone in a best of 3 with Nelson in the circle.
Yeah, I wasn’t at all eager to see Bama in the nightcap – they are definitely too familiar with UF. Though at least they weren’t really hammering Nelson – the fifth was the most maddening collection of infield hits, bloops and other assorted weirdnesses I’ve seen in a while.
I think I’d prefer UGA as well – they have the edge in familiarity, but Washington is almost certainly the better team… Lawrie is a beast. (And actually, the Huskies beat the Gators – 1-0 in extras. It would be rather satisfying to take down two of the teams that beat UF on the way to a title…)
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