Monday night, on the biggest stage in Omaha, the Florida Gators (50-19) and LSU Tigers (52-18) squared off for a chance to be one win closer to securing a national championship.
This was the fourth meeting between the two teams this season, Florida taking two of three in the regular season matchup in Gainesville.
The Gators came into this series after defeating TCU in an elimination game behind the arm of Alex Fadeo.
LSU was scorching hot coming into this matchup. Riding a three game win streak, and defeating the number-one team in the country, Oregon State, in back-to-back outings to advance to this stage.
Tonight, Florida gave the nod to Brady Singer (8-5) to stop this LSU lineup. Singer arguably had his best start of the
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After falling behind the count 2-0, Bush got Langworthy to pop out in foul territory. Luckily, after a long run by the SS Kramer Robertson, Guthrie was able to race home and score the first run of the game.
3B Jonathan India followed suit with a ground rule double over the center field wall. That hit extended the Gator lead to 3-0.
In the bottom half of the inning, Singer found himself in some trouble of his own.
LSU's left-fielder, Antoine Duplantis, lead off the inning with a single, and the right-fielder, Gregg Diechmann delivered a single the following at-bat.
With runners on first and second, Singer struck out the next three batters to end the threat of LSU.
The next two innings went pretty quietly.
In the 6th inning, LSU closed the gap. Singer retired the first hitter of the inning, before allowing a solo home-run to Antoine Duplantis. The score now 3-1.
The LSU "home-crowd" reawoke. Singer began to feel the purple and gold.
With two-outs, Singer proceeded to hit CF Zach Watson and walk the 3B Josh Smith to get the crowd to rise on their feet. The lead run stepped into the box.
DH Beau Jordan roped a single into left field to plate another LSU run. After 6, the score read 3-2 Gators.
The Florida Gator bats have also relied on timely hitter during this postseason. In the 7th, the Gators answered.
Austin Langworthy took two bags with a double to begin the 7th. With a runner in scoring position for just the second inning this
In the third, freshman Erin Lewis was hit by a pitch and advanced to third after a throwing error allowed junior Cassie Gonzales to reach. After a hit batter loaded the bases, a walk to sophomore Hallie Smith and a squeeze by LeBlanc plated another to put the Ladies up 6-2.
With Centenary leading game two 10-8 in the top of the seventh, sophomore Kylie Bradley blasted the first pitch she saw over the leftfield fence. However, Grambling State answered with three runs of its own to tie the game. With one out, McKenzie Johnson homered and Kenyshae Beasley singled. She stole second and scored on Mercedes Williams double. Tia Coleman followed with the game-tying single, but did not advance past first after sophomore Mackenzie Stewart struck out the final two hitters.
The Mountaineers had an opportunity to close on the 2-0 deficit in the fourth but John Murphy came on in relief and struck out the side to get out of the bases loaded jam.
Coming off of back-to-back losses to Kentucky the Florida Gators didn’t have time to feel sorry for themselves. Less than 48 hours after landing in Orlando from Lexington, the team was back on a bus heading to Jacksonville and the Gators had to refocus.
base, later on in the game Silas was pitcher and ended up striking out the same person who pushed him on
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