Boy did they ever too... wow On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Shane Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
> Florida baseball avenges loss to UCF > > By Pat Dooley <http://www.gatorsports.com/personalia/patdooley> > Gainesville SUN Staff writer > Published: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 10:06 p.m.Last Modified: > Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 10:06 p.m. > > Kevin O’Sullivan’s message to his Florida baseball team was simple before > Wednesday’s game against Central Florida. > > “Good teams answer,” O’Sullivan said. > > Florida had an answer for the Knights on Wednesday night with a little > help from its opponent. > > The fourth-ranked Gators took advantage of four errors and four wild > pitches — three that scored runs — in a 10-2 win over No. 13 UCF at > McKethan Stadium. UCF won the first game between the two teams 4-3 in > Orlando on Tuesday. > > “We just focused a lot better,” said freshman first baseman Christian > Hicks, who had two RBIs. “We wanted to bounce back and everybody did a > better job.” > > Florida is now 11-2 on the season and plays host to Maine for a three-game > series beginning Friday night. UCF drops to 11-2. > > The Gators scored in five of the first six innings. Florida finished with > 11 hits as eight of the nine starters reached base in the game. > > Starter Brett Morales and reliever Kirby Snead combined to hold UCF to a > run on four hits through six innings. Freshman Alex Faedo gave up a solo > homer to Eugene Vazquez in the eighth. Taylor Lewis pitched a perfect ninth > inning. > > Florida jumped on starter Eric Hepple, who allowed five of the nine > batters he faced to reach base. Buddy Reed doubled in the first and scored > when UCF catcher Jordan Savinon threw a one-hopper to second as Harrison > Bader stole the base. > > Bader, who walked six times in the two-game series, later scored on a wild > pitch to give Florida a 2-0 lead. Josh Tobias continued his torrid hitting > pace with a triple in the second and scored on Christian Hicks’ ground out. > > “I thought it was a single,” Tobias said. “But it skipped off the grass > (to the fence).” > > Tobias has 10 hits, five for extra bases, in his last four games. > > Sidewinder Tanner Olson replaced Hepple with two out in the second. In the > third inning, he gave up a line-drive homer to left by Bader. The no-doubt > homer was the sixth of the year for the junior and he now has 20 RBIs this > season. > > Morales retired the first nine batters he faced but was hit hard in the > fourth. He gave up a solo homer to Dylan Moore, two sharp singles and the > only two outs he recorded were line drives. Snead replaced him with two out > in the fourth and got out of the inning after loading the bases with a walk. > > “That’s been an Achilles’ heel for our pen, we’ve been falling behind,” > O’Sullivan said. > > Said Snead, “The walk was disappointing, but he left me in and I just had > to attack the hitters.” > > Tobias singled in the fourth, went to third on a two-base error by pitcher > Ryan Meyer and scored on a Hicks’ single to left. The Gators scored twice > more in the inning including one on a rundown where second baseman Kyle > Marsh missed the tag on Hicks between third and home. > > UF added three runs in the sixth as Richie Martin and JJ Schwarz had RBI > singles. > > *NOTES:* Former Florida coach Joe Arnold was elected to the 2015 National > College Baseball Hall of Fame induction class on Wednesday. Arnold coached > at UF from 1984-94, won 434 games at Florida and guided the Gators to their > first two College World Series appearances in 1988 and ’91 … UCF started > seven seniors in the game Wednesday night. Florida has had four senior > players in the last three seasons including two on the current squad — > Tobias and Bobby Poyner. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Sent From Shane's iPhone > Go Gators! & Skål Vikes! > ALPCA #8756 > Europlate #1045 > > -- > -- > 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) > --- > 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/d/optout. > -- -- 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) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GatorTalk" 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/d/optout.
