(SB) Florida @ Jacksonville 2/13/24 - Official Game Thread

4-1 Florida travels to 2-2 Jacksonville to take on the Dolphins Tuesday evening at 6 pm. The game is on ESPN+. Jax hosted 4 games this past weekend, beating Ball State 4-2 and Fordham 9-0 in 5 innings, losing to James Madison 5-1 and Southern Miss 5-2. They used 4 pitches over the weekend, with 5'10" LHP Skyler Waggoner being used the most. She threw 12 innings, 7 innings against James Madison, giving up 5 runs, 3 earned on 11 hits 2 walks and 4 K's. Against Fordham, she threw a 5 inning no hitter, with 4 K's and a walk. Junior LHP, 5'10" Ashlee Harwood, threw 7 innings for the weekend, a complete game 2 hitter vs. Ball State where she gave up 2 runs, neither earned, 2 hits, 7 walks and 5 K's. Grad Senior LHP Shelby Harpe threw 4 innings vs. Southern Miss and gave up 4 runs, none earned, on 2 hits, 2 walks and 2 K's. 5'7" RHP Freshman Reese Wells tossed 3 innings vs. Southern Miss, allowing 1 run on no hits, a walk and a K. Obviously defense was a problem for the Dolphins over the weekend as they made 6 errors. Team batting average is .250, with 2 HR, 13 walks, 16 K's and 10-10 in stolen bases. They only have 3 players hitting over .200 - Senior infielder Allison Bratek at .583, Senior catcher Kailey Harrigan at .500, and Junior OF Madison Bratek at .462.
Lineups will be posted when they show up on statsbroadcast.com. Goooo Gators!!

 

Game is about to start, but lineups still not posted.

 

Ava Brown pitching for the Gators tonight and batting 5th.

 

Junior left Ashley Harwood pitching for Jax.

 

Falby reaches 2nd on an error on the 1st baseman.

 

judolphins.com/sidearmstats still not up. Korbe Otis flies out to RF on a 2-2 count.

 

Skylar walks on a 3-1 pitch. 1st and 2nd, 1 out, Jocelyn Erickson up.

 

Erickson slugs a 2-run double off the CF fence.

 

Erickson takes 3rd on a wild pitch, then Ava walks on a 3-1 count. Baylee Goddard up.

 

Pitching change for the Dolphins. RHP Pritchard, her first appearance of the season.

 

FLORIDA BATTING
Uni Name
27 K. FALBY
33 K. OTIS
17 S. WALLACE
8 J. ERICKSON
0 A. BROWN
50 B. GODDARD
15 R. WALSH
47 A. KOWALEWSKI
11 M. WILLIAMS
2 A. GOELZ


JACKSONVILLE BATTING
Uni Name
6 M. BRATEK
2 A. BRATEK
0 K. HARRIGAN
14 K. HOLZRICHTER
17 A. CARTER
3 M. REYNOLDS
4 A. HARCUS
11 G. ROBLES
10 J. JONES
9 A. HARWOOD
34 C. PRITCHARD

 

Goddard gets a ground out RBI. Walsh singles through the SS and drives in Brown. 4-0 Gators.

 

Kowalewski HBP. Mia Williams up looking for her first UF hit.

 

Mia grounds into a fielder's choice force at 2nd to end the inning.

 

Leadoff hitter for JU grounds out to third.

 

#2 batter, sister of batter #1, strikes out.

 

#3 batter flies out to LF. Going to the 2nd, 4-0 Gators.

 

Falby leads off with an infield single.

 

Kendra thrown out trying to steal. Very unusual.