http://gatorchomp.com Just another WordPress site Mon, 21 May 2012 04:11:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/florida_gators_softball_comes_up_short/14308 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/florida_gators_softball_comes_up_short/14308#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 04:11:00 +0000 ray@gatorcountry.com http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/florida_gators_softball_comes_up_short/14308#When:23:11:00Z Softball, more than any other sport, is a game of split-second decisions.

It is a game of inches, where one false move can be the difference in making the play or falling just short.

On Sunday, the Gators fell just short, dropping a 1-0 elimination game to South Florida in the NCAA Regional in Gainesville, Fla.]]> http://gatorchomp.com/2012/05/21/gators-softball-comes-up-short/feed/ 0 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/suspensions_lead_to_season_ending_loss/14307 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/suspensions_lead_to_season_ending_loss/14307#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 02:51:00 +0000 ray@gatorcountry.com http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/suspensions_lead_to_season_ending_loss/14307#When:21:51:00Z About an hour after Florida’s season-ending 1-0 loss against South Florida on Sunday, UF coach Tim Walton was back on the field at Katie Seashole Pressley Stadium.

Quickly putting the events of the past few days behind him, Walton played catch with his nine-year-old daughter, Camden, in left field. In between throws, he was doing what he loved by teaching her the fundamentals of throwing and catching.

About 48 hours earlier, Walton made perhaps the most important teaching lesson of his seven-year Florida career by suspending three starters just hours before the top-seeded Gators opened the Gainesville Regional with a 1-0 loss against fourth-seeded Florida Gulf Coast.]]> http://gatorchomp.com/2012/05/21/suspensions-lead-to-season-ending-loss/feed/ 0 http://gatorchomp.com/2012/05/21/florida-football-the-pros-and-cons-of-jacoby-brissett-and-jeff-driskel/ http://gatorchomp.com/2012/05/21/florida-football-the-pros-and-cons-of-jacoby-brissett-and-jeff-driskel/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 02:38:31 +0000 Nick de la Torre http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1189764-florida-football-the-pros-and-cons-of-brissett-driskel When faced with a tough decision in life, the best way to come up with an answer is to break down the situation to its simplest form and weigh the pros and cons of each decision.]]> http://gatorchomp.com/2012/05/21/florida-football-the-pros-and-cons-of-jacoby-brissett-and-jeff-driskel/feed/ 0 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/frustrated_florida_hammers_fgcu/14306 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/frustrated_florida_hammers_fgcu/14306#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 07:24:00 +0000 ray@gatorcountry.com http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/frustrated_florida_hammers_fgcu/14306#When:02:24:00Z Florida took out its frustrations of the past 24 hours on the ball by hitting and homering its way to a pair of victories Saturday. A 7-1 win against Central Florida and a 6-2 win against Florida Gulf Coast keep the Gators’ season alive for at least another day in the NCAA Softball Regional in Gainesville, Fla.

They had 20 hits and six homers in the two games combined. The 14 hits in the second game was the most since a March 3 win against Gardner-Webb.

The Gators (48-12) must beat South Florida twice — beginning at 1 p.m. Sunday — to advance to an NCAA Super Regional that also would be played in Gainesville’s Pressley Stadium should the Gators achieve the feat.]]> http://gatorchomp.com/2012/05/20/frustrated-florida-hammers-fgcu/feed/ 0 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/gators_softball_keeps_season_alive/14305 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/gators_softball_keeps_season_alive/14305#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 04:58:01 +0000 ray@gatorcountry.com http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/gators_softball_keeps_season_alive/14305#When:23:58:01Z Lauren Haeger homered twice and Hannah Rogers pitched five shutout innings to lead Florida to a 7-1 win against Central Florida in the loser’s bracket of the Gainesville Regional on Saturday in Pressley Stadium.

The Gators kept their season alive and play a rematch against Florida Gulf Coast, the team that sent them into the loser’s bracket by beating UF 2-1 on Friday, in Saturday’s late game.

It’s a double elimination tournament, so if the Gators win, they’ll have to beat South Florida twice on Sunday as the Bulls are unbeaten in the NCAA Regional thus far.]]> http://gatorchomp.com/2012/05/20/gators-softball-keeps-season-alive/feed/ 0 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/uf_lacrosse_pummels_penn_state/14304 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/uf_lacrosse_pummels_penn_state/14304#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 04:34:00 +0000 ray@gatorcountry.com http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/uf_lacrosse_pummels_penn_state/14304#When:23:34:00Z On May 21, 2011, the Florida lacrosse team lost to Duke in the Elite Eight to end its miracle run of a season. Junior attacker Kitty Cullen still remembers the dispirited feeling she had during the postgame press conference.

“I remember sitting in this exact same spot last year,” Cullen said, “Just being so upset thinking we could have done this, we could have done that, we could be going to the Final Four.”

Fast forward a year to Saturday’s game and Cullen is sitting in the same position. She just played an Elite Eight game and was sitting down as reporters asked questions, but this time Florida is going to the Final Four after defeating Penn State 15-2 in Saturday’s NCAA Lacrosse quarterfinals at Dizney Stadium in Gainesville, Fla.]]> http://gatorchomp.com/2012/05/20/uf-lacrosse-pummels-penn-state/feed/ 0 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/physical_florida_defense_powers_win/14303 http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/physical_florida_defense_powers_win/14303#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 03:35:00 +0000 ray@gatorcountry.com http://www.gatorcountry.com/other_sports/article/physical_florida_defense_powers_win/14303#When:22:35:00Z With 1:39 remaining in Saturday’s match, Florida goalkeeper Mikey Meagher came off the field to a well-deserved standing ovation from most of the 708 fans at Dizney Stadium.

Meagher spearheaded the most dominating defensive performance of the season against a quality opponent, powering the Gators’ lacrosse team into the NCAA Final Four with a 15-2 victory against Penn State.

Florida (19-2) will play Syracuse on May 25 in Stony Brook, N.Y. Syracuse defeated North Carolina 17-16 on Saturday.]]> http://gatorchomp.com/2012/05/20/physical-florida-defense-powers-win/feed/ 0 http://www.gatorcountry.com/baseball/article/gators_falter_with_sec_title_on_line/14302 http://www.gatorcountry.com/baseball/article/gators_falter_with_sec_title_on_line/14302#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 02:55:00 +0000 ray@gatorcountry.com http://www.gatorcountry.com/baseball/article/gators_falter_with_sec_title_on_line/14302#When:21:55:00Z Brian Johnson lifted a fly ball to right field with Preston Tucker attempting to tag up and tie the ball game in the last inning.

Tucker, a tad too slow, couldn’t beat the throw by Auburn right fielder Creede Simpson, who fired a strike to home plate and extinguished any chance of a regular season conference title with the bizarre game-ending double play.

The No. 3 Florida Gators (40-16, 18-12), needing a victory in the series finale vs. the Auburn Tigers (30-26, 13-17) to stay in contention for the title, fell short in a crushing 5-4 defeat in which the Gators held another early lead at Plainsman Park in Auburn, Ala. ]]> http://gatorchomp.com/2012/05/20/gators-falter-with-sec-title-on-line/feed/ 0