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Begin forwarded message: > From: Shane Ford <[email protected]> > Date: May 9, 2013, 7:20:21 AM CDT > To: GatorNEWS <[email protected]> > Subject: [gatornews] [SUN]: UF softball begins SEC tourney > Reply-To: [email protected] > > UF softball begins SEC tourney > > > Freshmen Kelsey Stewart, left, Kirsti Merritt and the Gator softball team > gets set to begin SEC Tournament action on Thursday. > Brett Le Blanc/Correspondent > By Jim Harvin > Gainesville SUN Correspondent > Published: Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 6:01 a.m. > Last Modified: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at 6:52 p.m. > > Fresh off their first regular-season Southeastern Conference Championship > since 2009, the Florida Gators will take the diamond today as the No. 1 seed > for the 2013 SEC Tournament when they square off against No. 8 seed Alabama > in a scheduled 11 a.m. matchup. > The game is the first of four quarterfinals on tap at the University of > Kentucky's new John Cropp Stadium in Lexington and will be televised live on > ESPNU. The tournament is single-elimination format. > “We've got some question marks about our team that we'd still like to > answer,” UF head coach Tim Walton said. “We don't really consider the SEC > Tournament a postseason event. We consider it more an in-season event, but > I'd still like to see some of our players perform in a tournament in an > elimination-type format, so we may shake up the lineup a little bit. Again, > you want to find out what you can use and what you have or don't have for the > postseason. > “With that being said, obviously you play it as a one-game tournament, and > you go and don't leave anything back.” > It's already been an amazing season for Florida (49-7, 18-6), which was > picked to finish fourth in the SEC East and seventh overall in the league. > Instead, the Gators won their fourth overall SEC crown and sixth SEC East > title and enter today's game with more wins than anyone in the nation. > “For us as freshmen to come in here and win an SEC Championship in one of the > nation's toughest conferences is just amazing,” said second baseman Kelsey > Stewart, UF's leading hitter (.395) and one of five Gators to earn All-SEC > honors. > In addition, Walton was chosen as the SEC Coach of the Year for the fourth > time in his eight-year tenure. > “You hope when you recruit that you recruit a lot of the same type of > personalities and the same type of people with the same type of goals, but > this team has really meshed themselves together really well,” he said. “I > give a lot of credit to our two seniors, Ensley Gammel and Kelsey Horton, for > their leadership and to Paul Chandler, our strength and conditioning coach, > and his staff. They've really instilled that camaraderie and that chemistry > from day one in the weight room, and I've been a firm believer that that's > where it's built, in the weight room. That's where you build team chemistry; > that's where you get that bond together. > “This is the first time we've ever traveled with a strength staff for every > road game, and it shows, not only in how we're fit, but just the mindset of > the way people treat each other. It's huge, and I give a lot of credit to the > girls. I haven't done anything different.” > With a victory today, UF will advance to the semifinals Friday at 3 p.m. on > ESPNU against the winner of today's game between No. 4 seed LSU (40-13, 15-8) > and No. 5 seed Georgia (37-18, 14-9). A win also would give the Gators their > fifth 50-win season in program history. > The championship final will air live on ESPN Saturday at 8 p.m. > “I'm ready to start the SEC Tournament and (NCAA) regionals,” freshman first > baseman Taylor Schwarz said. “This is where the fun begins, really. This > whole season has been so awesome. I'm so blessed to be a part of such a great > team, so I'm just really, really excited.” > > -- > -- > GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! > 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions > 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions > 2008 National Football Champions | > Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), > Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GatorNews" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" group. 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