Florida Gators Fall Ball Headlines Weekend Lineup
Fall ball returned to Gainesville this past weekend, with the Florida softball team notching two definitive wins at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium.
Florida welcomed Santa Fe College by scoring a 20-0 win Friday. More than a half dozen Gators made their debut, including the game’s starting pitcher Caroline Stanton.
Junior Tori Edwards, a LSU transfer, delivered two home runs in back-to-back at-bats, making a statement in her first fall ball game for Florida.
On the second day of fall softball, the Gators added another win, 29-1, this time against Carson-Newman on Saturday.
Edwards continued her momentum, recording another home run in the third inning.
Ava Brown and Taylor Shumaker fell back into rhythm with three home runs and seven RBIs between the pair.
Florida Baseball Opens Season with Five Home Runs
Then, Florida baseball took the field for the first time this fall in Tampa at its first exhibition game Friday.
The Gators smashed five homers to notch a 10-6 win against USF at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Friday night, marking their ninth-straight fall ball exhibition win since 2022.
Drew Dickerson and Ethan Surowiec drilled two each. Dickerson went 2-for-2 and pasted a team-high four RBIs, while Surowiec went 2-for-3 with three RBIs. Caden McDonald and Surowiec homered back-to-back with two outs in the first inning to give Florida the early lead.
Jon Embury also recorded a multi-hit game, going 2-for-3 with a single and a double, and rookie Brady Harris went 1-for-3 earning two RBI.
The Gators saw nine touch the mound for single innings, with Aiden King, Schuyler Sandford and McDonald closing out their respective innings, pitching clean slates.
King took the bump first after an hour-long weather delay to start and struck out two batters. He was joined by four other pitchers who stuck out multiple batters.
Florida’s pitching staff forced for scoreless innings for the Bulls and allowed six runs. Jackson Barberi earned the win, allowing one hit, two walks and striking out two.
The Gators now face a familiar foe, the Troy Trojans, in Pensacola at 2 p.m. ET on Saturday for their next exhibition game. A 10-2 loss to Troy ended Florida’s 2026 season at the NCAA Gainesville Regional this past June.
Dive Sweeps Against In-State Rivals
At the Stephen O’Connell Center, Florida’s men’s and women’s dive team brought home a pair of wins in their dual meet against the Miami Hurricanes.
The women’s team swept the leaderboard. Senior Camyla Monroy led the way, winning the event. She was followed by sophomore Alexa Fung, freshman Juliana Giron Trochez and sophomore Ava Brinkman made up the list of runners-up.
Starting the event, the women took a dominant lead, with the Hurricanes failing to have a diver place in the later rounds.
The men’s side was more complicated throughout the six rounds of competition.
Junior Miguel Tovar led the Gators throughout the meet, but Miami sophomore Matteo Santoro put up a fight for the lead.
Similarly, senior Conor Gesing had to defend his third-place spot from Miami freshman Valerio Mosca.
The final round scores were the deciding factor for each placement.
Women’s Golf Closes Out the Fall at Tar Heel Invitational
Gators women’s golf wrapped up its fall showing at the three-day Tar Heel Invitational at Finley Golf Club.
Florida finished sixth overall in the tournament of 14 teams Sunday.
Katelyn Huber led No. 9 Florida in the opening round with her 2-under 69 round. This was Huber’s sixth under par round of the season and put her in sixth place heading into round two.
She moved herself into fourth heading into the final round, only three shots shy of the individual leader Rianne Maxlixi from Duke with a 1-under 70 round.
Huber closed out the final round with a 72 (+1) earning her a T5 finish in the tournament and 2-under for the weekend. Her 10 birdies over the three rounds put her in fourth among the competition.
Jessica Guiser finished T18 for the Gators for her fourth top-25 outing of the season. She started tied in 18th at the end of the opening round with an ever-par 71.
Guiser moved into 14th after the second round before sliding into the 18th position again at the close of the final round. She finished 4-over in the tournament.
In third for Florida was Paula Francisco who finished T36, moving up ten spots in the closing round with a seven-shot improvement from her second round.
Ines Archer finished T39 playing as an individual and both Sophia Dyer and Perla Sól Sigurbrandsdóttir tied in 54th to close out scoring for the Gators.
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