Florida NCAA Baseball
After four years of attending the University of Florida, the Gators baseball team is finally on a post-season winning streak. We have always had a great team since I've been here, ranked and even in the top 5 at times. But the post-season always kills us, its the curse of being a Gator after Spurrier left I think. We can end the season with enough intimidation and stamena to look like we could take it all, but we tend to lose it in the first post-season game. Its a curse that our football, basketball and baseball teams have all experienced many times throughout my tenure as a student here.
BUT the Gators baseball team is making their way through the NCAA post-season with flying colors and there is hope yet!
After an amazing weekend of baseball the Gators won the NCAA Gainesville Regional and will be hosting the Super Regional tournament this weekend against FSU at home for a best-of-three game series.
After seeing the Gators beat UNC and steadily beat the crap out of the Fighting Irish, I have complete confidence that our Gators can kick some Seminole butt this upcoming weekend.
In the Regional tournament this weekend, The Gators beat Stetson 8-3 on Saturday morning after being rained out Friday night. Which was kind of a bummer for me because I had planned on going to the Gators first game in the tournament after work but it was rained out and I ended up working until about 10:30 anyway and would have missed it but instead I drank entirely too much alcohol Friday night and slept through the rescheduled game Saturday morning. It turns out I also missed our "star" player of the year, Matt LaPorta, a sophomore from Punta Gorda, FL, hit his record-breaking homerun #24 of the season. LaPorta had been at 23 homeruns for a few games now and had matched the Gator record for most homeruns in a season but was just waiting on that one more homer to beat the record and make it his. So Saturday morning he hit #24 and I missed it. Bummer.
Okay well I guess I'm going to have to end this post for now. Today is Matt's birthday and we are going out to the pool. But get excited because the Gators beat Notre Dame 23-3 Sunday night and I have tons of fun stories about the game!
laters.
BUT the Gators baseball team is making their way through the NCAA post-season with flying colors and there is hope yet!
After an amazing weekend of baseball the Gators won the NCAA Gainesville Regional and will be hosting the Super Regional tournament this weekend against FSU at home for a best-of-three game series.
After seeing the Gators beat UNC and steadily beat the crap out of the Fighting Irish, I have complete confidence that our Gators can kick some Seminole butt this upcoming weekend.
In the Regional tournament this weekend, The Gators beat Stetson 8-3 on Saturday morning after being rained out Friday night. Which was kind of a bummer for me because I had planned on going to the Gators first game in the tournament after work but it was rained out and I ended up working until about 10:30 anyway and would have missed it but instead I drank entirely too much alcohol Friday night and slept through the rescheduled game Saturday morning. It turns out I also missed our "star" player of the year, Matt LaPorta, a sophomore from Punta Gorda, FL, hit his record-breaking homerun #24 of the season. LaPorta had been at 23 homeruns for a few games now and had matched the Gator record for most homeruns in a season but was just waiting on that one more homer to beat the record and make it his. So Saturday morning he hit #24 and I missed it. Bummer.
Okay well I guess I'm going to have to end this post for now. Today is Matt's birthday and we are going out to the pool. But get excited because the Gators beat Notre Dame 23-3 Sunday night and I have tons of fun stories about the game!
laters.
posted by Violet #1 at 6/07/2005 12:14:00 PM
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