Grats to the Gators! SEC CHAMPS
UF's softball team won the SEC tournament tonight, beating Alabama 2-1 in the championship game, their 4th straight win against a ranked opponent. Kelly Barnhill pitched her 3rd complete game in a row, surrendering only 1 run total, improving her record to 30-11 on the year and 100-19 for her career. Amanda Lorenz got a 2-run double in the top of the 6th to give the Gators all the runs they needed as UF improved their record to 44-15, their 7th win against a top 10 team and 17th against a top 25 team. This probably earned Florida a Top 8 seed for the NCAA tournament, which will be announced tomorrow night. Even in a down year by Tim Walton standards, this is a very good and dangerous team.
This thread title needs to be changed, or we need a new thread
This thread just shows the unrealistically high expectations placed on the softball program. This is somewhat of a down year by standards of the Tim Walton era. 12-12 in the SEC and lowest batting average in the conference. But even with those issues, we've played arguably the toughest schedule in the country, best defense in D1, best ERA in the SEC and one of the lowest ERA's in D1, have been in the Top 10 all year, won more games vs. ranked opponents than anybody else, won the SEC tournament and will enter the NCAA tournament probably as a 7 or 8 seed. With any other program fans would be ecstatic. Yet a few claim this is a team of 2-3 good players and a bunch of scrubs. Pretty ridiculous, IMO. We should be celebrating how consistently good Tim Walton and his squad are year in and year out.
They’ve had us playing another SEC team in the Supers the last 4 years UGA in ‘16, Bama in ‘17, and Texas A&M in ‘18. Now Tenn this year if the seeds hold. I think they set it up so they don’t have 6 SEC teams at the World Series.They rewarded Florida for that difficult non-conference schedule. We beat Washington, Arizona & Minnesota, then went 1-1 vs. FSU. Don' think for a minute that we're the 5th best team in D1, but it's nice this program is so well respected. I hated to see that we have to play another SEC team in the Supers, assuming all seeds advance, especially Tennessee. But Goooo Gators!
Just cause it will piss donk off, i say we make a new thread.