Elizabeth Hightower hurled her second complete-game shutout of the season in the win over Auburn.

AUBURN, Ala. - The seventh-ranked Florida softball team clinched its third Southeastern Conference series of the season with a 3-0 victory over No. 17 Auburn in the series finale Sunday afternoon at Jane B. Moore Field.

The Gators (30-6, 7-5 SEC) picked up a complete-game shutout performance in the circle from senior right-handed pitcher Elizabeth Hightower (10-2). Hightower scattered three hits and struck out five Tigers (29-6, 7-5 SEC) over 7.0 innings pitched for her second complete-game shutout of the season.

Hightower battled Auburn starter Maddie Penta (18-3) as the pair worked scoreless frames through four-complete innings of play and combined to allow three total hits.

Florida broke the scoreless tie and took a 1-0 lead in the top of the 5th inning of play. Senior Cheyenne Lindsey led off the frame with a double to left center field and sophomore Katie Kistler followed up to drive her home on an RBI single to right field.
Auburn tried to rally and tie the game in the home half of the inning as a single and a sacrifice bunt put a runner on second base with one out, but UF's Skylar Wallace and Charla Echols thwarted the effort with a heads up play on a groundball to shortstop that Wallace scooped up and threw to Echols at third for the tag. Hightower capped the inning and shut down the Tigers with fifth strikeout of afternoon.

The Gators capitalized on the momentum against with two more runs in the 6th inning to extend their lead out to 3-0. Wallace and Hannah Adams produced back-to-back singles to lead off the inning and Reagan Walsh drove in Wallace with her RBI single to left center.

UF went on to load the bases with a walk from Lindsey and Adams scored in the next at-bat on a wild pitch thrown by Penta.
Hightower and the Gators would allow only one more Auburn batter to reach base in the final two innings to secure the series victory.

The Gators return home for a four-game stretch of games at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium. The team will host No. 2 Florida State at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, and No. 4 Alabama for a three-game series that is set to start Saturday, April 9, at 3 p.m.

Notables:

* The Gators claimed their third SEC regular season series, second on the road, of the season with today's shutout of Auburn.

* UF has won its last seven SEC regular season road series. The last road series dropped occurred at Ole Miss in 201To9.

* Today's complete-game shutout hurled by Elizabeth Hightower is the second of the season and the second against an SEC opponent.

* No other pitcher has hurled two complete-game shutouts in conference play so far this season.

* It's also the 12th complete-game shutout of her career.

* Skylar Wallace notched her 11th multi-hit game of the season while Kistler produced her sixth of the year after the duo both went 2-for-3 at the plate.

* Freshman Reagan Walsh is currently on a five-game hitting streak after going 1-for-3 in today's game. She is one game shy of tying her season-high of six that she earned earlier this year.

I'm a part of my med school's EM club leadership board and we're currently in the phase of coming up with event ideas and scheduling. With that being said, is there anything y'all would have wanted to know/learn prior to residency? We currently have US stuff set-up along with IV and the potential for overnight ride-alongs with EMT, but any and all ideas are welcome since we want to give our members as much hands-on experience as possible. We're also considering the possibility of doing tag-along events with the Wilderness Medicine club. Just wanted to reach out and see if any of y'all had suggestions.

I am watching the Open Water Nationals and it’s great to see Katie Ledecky wearing a Gator swim cap! I know she is training with Nesty, but didn’t know she was going to rep UF at her meets.

The Gamecocks refused to appear for the anthem; SEC should punish that action. Maybe rename to the Wokecocks.

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mocking how insane these leftist are 🤓

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UF MBK: Gators Name Carlin Hartman Associate Head Coach

Hartman coached five seasons at Oklahoma before joining UNLV's staff in 2021-22

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Carlin Hartman has been named associate head coach for Florida men's basketball, head coach Todd Golden announced on Friday. Hartman brings 22 years of experience at the collegiate level, including five seasons at Oklahoma under Lon Kruger before coaching at UNLV in the 2021-22 season. The Buffalo, N.Y., native was associate head coach at Columbia during Golden's two seasons on staff there.

"Carlin brings a wealth of experience and a highly-respected track record to Florida," Golden said. "We're excited to add his expertise as a basketball mind, a developer, a relationship-builder and a recruiter to our staff. He sets a great example for all of us as a family man, and he will be a tremendous mentor to our student-athletes off the court in addition to helping us collectively and individually become our best on the court."

"I'm thrilled to join my good friend and former colleague Todd Golden at a national championship-caliber program such as Florida," Hartman said. "The program's success has been well-documented, starting over 30 years ago with Coach Kruger, who I had the pleasure of working for. For Todd to ask me and my family to join him is an honor, and I look forward to getting started in Gainesville."

Hartman helped UNLV to an 18-win season in 2021-22, including double-digit conference victories. The Rebels boasted a pair of All-Mountain West performers this season as Bryce Hamilton earned first-team honors and Royce Hamm Jr. received honorable mention recognition, while Donovan Williams was named MWC Sixth Man of the Year.

At Oklahoma, the Sooners made NCAA Tournament appearances in each of Hartman's last four seasons in Norman. As a recruiter, Hartman played a crucial role in bringing in the best recruiting class of the Kruger era at OU. The 2019 class was ranked the highest in the Big 12 and No. 13 in the nation by Rivals. Hartman was recognized by Stadium as one of the top three assistant coaches in the Big 12, based on a poll of league coaches in 2020. Silver Waves Media also named him one of the top 50 impactful high-major assistant coaches in the country.

In 2019, Hartman was one of 31 assistant coaches throughout the country to receive an invitation to the Second Annual Collegiate Coaching Consortium, which brings together rising basketball coaches and NCAA Division I athletics directors to participate in a multi-day academy.

Hartman was the lead recruiter of a multitude of Sooner players including eventual NBA Draft selections and had a focus on the development of the team's big men position group, including All-Big 12 honorees Kristian Doolittle, Brady Manek and Khadeem Lattin. Lattin became the Sooners' all-time leader in blocked shots.

Hartman has also been an active participant in important social justice initiatives. He is a member of the Coaches Coalition for Progress, and he helped form the Black Assistant Coaches Alliance in the Big 12. The CCFP's mission is to effect change in inner cities and the BACA was formed in response to the ongoing social unrest throughout the country with the goal of creating effective platforms for building better opportunities through transparency, economic and financial literacy programs and civic engagement initiatives for all student-athletes and coaches.

Hartman made his coaching debut as an assistant at Rice in 1996 following his professional basketball career. He served in three separate stints with the Owls, returning for two seasons as director of operations from 2002-04 and as associate head coach from 2014-16.

Prior to his return to Rice, Hartman worked as Columbia's associate head coach for four seasons. In 2013-14, he helped lead the program to its most wins (21) since 1968. From 2012-14, Hartman served as the Ivy League representative on the National Association of Basketball Coaches' Assistant Coaches Committee.

Before his appointment at Columbia, Hartman was an assistant coach for one season each at James Madison and Centenary in 2009-10 and 2008-09, respectively.

From 2005-08, Hartman worked as assistant coach and was the lead recruiter at Richmond for three seasons where he recruited three of the top scorers in program history, including future NBA Draft pick Justin Harper.

Hartman mentored three future NBA talents at Rice from 2002-04 as director of operations, including the Owls' all-time leading scorer and rebounder Mike Harris, as well as All-America honoree and 2007 NBA Draft selection Morris Almond and All-WAC honoree Mike Wilks. The Owls won 41 games over those two seasons, including a 23-13 mark in league play.

Additionally, Hartman spent one season each at McNeese State and Louisiana as an assistant coach.

Hartman earned a degree in communications with a concentration in broadcast journalism from Tulane in 1994. He was inducted into the Tulane Athletics Hall of Fame in 2020 along with his teammates from the 1992 Green Wave team, which was the first in Tulane history to reach the NCAA Tournament and to win an NCAA Tournament game.

He wrapped up his Tulane career ranked 10th in scoring (1,180 points), third on the program's career field goal percentage list (52.8 percent) and seventh in career steals (146). In 2011, Hartman was named to Tulane's 1990s All-Decade Team as part of the Green Wave's celebration of 100 years of basketball. Following college, the Rapid City Thrillers selected Hartman in the third round of the 1994 CBA Draft.

Hartman and his wife, Christine, have four children - Sydney, Kailyn, Tess and Joseph.

Carlin Hartman Timeline
2022-

Florida Associate Head Coach

2021-22

UNLV Assistant Coach

2016-21

Oklahoma Assistant Coach

2014-16

Rice Associate Head Coach

2010-14

Columbia Associate Head Coach

2009-10

James Madison Assistant Coach

2008-09

Centenary Assistant Coach

2005-08

Richmond Assistant Coach

2004-05

Louisiana Assistant Coach

2002-04

Rice Director of Basketball Operations

1997-98

McNeese State Assistant Coach

1996-97

Rice Assistant Coach

1990-94

Tulane Men's Basketball Student-Athlete

Couple of notes from his podcast

-AR looks great and will be better in Napier's system than Mullen's. AR stills struggles with accuracy, consistency and makes a wow play followed by a terrible throw. Miller is more accurate and consistent but lacks ability comparably.
-Dajuon Reynolds is the best receiver right now
-M Johnson is best RB on roster and is a natural both in the backfield and split out wide

Axzavian Alexander

Wide Receiver

6-foot, 180-Pounds

Rockledge (FL)

2024

"It was a good experience for me. Florida is my dream school. The wide receiver coach was chill, and I talked to him about many things, and I really was excited to be there like everything about it, and I plan on going back very soon and going to many more. What's next for my family is to keep trying to get out there."

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Hmmm….where might a guy who lives in G’ville go?

Top 50 National Standout Recaps Florida Visit

Four-Star Linebacker Adarius Hayes checks in from Largo (FL) at 6-foot-4, 205-Pounds.
Hayes is ranked No 41 in America for 2024 regardless of position. The Gators were his dream school growing up.

Adarius Hayes
LB 6-4/205
Largo FL
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“Honestly, I really love the facility, and I also enjoyed my time being up there.”

“We didn’t really talk as much because he was coaching, but it was nice meeting Coach Jamar Chaney and Coach Napier.”

“I would love to go anywhere at the next level, but the gators is a dream school for me while I was growing up.”

“I’m am plan on going to Miami next week/weekend and also going to ND 23rd not official yet, but I am planning more visits with my parents, and yes, I would love to go back up to Gainesville. It was a great visit and also to go back up there and learn more about the program!!”

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Watching baseball and talking with a friend, and the HALFWAY JOKING thought came up: would you rather your team to be mediocre, floating around .500 or above but not competing for anything; or, rather them be terrible, where you don't ever get your hopes up and you are just resigned to not winning anything?

Both results are the same: no titles.

But your team being terrible keeps you from constantly getting kicked in the gut with the hope that you might win something.

I mean, our 3 big teams are clearly just mediocre right now - and I think I might argue it's harder to be a fan of mediocre team than a bad team. We all had high hopes for all 3 teams this year - and all 3 have been major disappointments. They've been good enough to make a crappy bowl, the NIT, and well, not sure what baseball will do, but it won;'t be making the CWS, and maybe not even the tournament at all. I think that might be harder than being a fan of a crappy team - low expectations means you don't get too frustrated.

Anyways, what are your thoughts? It is the offseason, so maybe it'll be a fun thing to talk about - while we watch our mediocre baseball team.

which is the first game of the year and could set the tone for the entire season. A win against a very solid Utah team could set the tone for a winning season this fall and a loss for the first game of the year could be deflating and lead to a few loses down the road that the Gators would otherwise maybe have won due to a lack of momentum and possibly a dip in confidence with Napier leading the program. I think that first game is going to be huge in hindsight after the season gets rolling.

Interesting that this comes from an Arkansas source...


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The Florida Gators will look to avoid getting swept by the Georgia Bulldogs. Florida has lost both games Thursday and Friday and will look to escape Athens with at least one win in this road trip. First pitch is at 2pm EST. Lineups will be posted soon

Trinity Thomas had 10s on floor and vault. She got a 9.95 on bars ... Gators are going to cruise to the Auburn regional championship. Trinity already has the highest all-around of the season in the country and with a 9.95 on beam she'll go to 39.000 all-around which is mind boggling.