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Florida outlasts Georgia to win Super Regional, return to Women’s College World Series
By Andrew Olson
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The Florida Gators are going back to Oklahoma City. No. 3 national seed UF defeated Georgia 5-2 on Sunday in the decisive Game 3 of the Gainesville Super Regional. For Florida, it’s the 13th trip to the Women’s College World Series in program history and the 3rd time over the last 4 seasons for coach Tim Walton.
In the bottom of the 4th inning, weather delayed the action with Florida holding a 1-0 lead. Play resumed about an hour later.
Florida had a 14-hit day with 14 left on base. The Gators did enough at the plate, though, plating 4 of their 5 runs in the bottom of the 5th inning.
Rylee Holtorf made it a 3-0 contest with a 2-run home run to left field.
B5 | SHE'S SO DUEEEE x @ryleeholtorf
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Gators 3 | Bulldogs 0
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Later in the inning, Taylor Shumaker got in on the home run party with a 2-run blast to right extending the lead to 5-0.
T5 | TAY-SHU SHOT ™
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Taylor Shumaker launches No. to tie the single-season school home run record!
Gators 5 | Bulldogs 0
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Georgia did not go quietly. In their final at-bat, the Bulldogs got the bats going. Jaydyn Goodwin hit a 2-run home run to cut it to 5-2 with nobody out. Florida pitcher Keegan Rothrock recovered, though, only allowing a single before securing their final out to seal the 5-2 victory.
SECURED OUR SPOT
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Rothrock pitched all 7 innings for Florida. She allowed just 4 hits in the game for 2 runs (1 earned), striking out 5 with 1 walk over 26 batters faced.
Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.
