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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA BASEBALL NEWS & NOTES EMAIL [email protected] / PHONE 352-318-6680 @GATORSBB #13 FLORIDA GATORS vs. KENTUCKY WILDCATS TUESDAY, MAY 24 - 10:30 AM ET .278 BA .278 HOOVER METROPOLITAN STADIUM (HOOVER, AL) 1846 AB 1702 TV SEC NETWORK RADIO ESPN 98.1FM/850AM WRUF (GNV) & 1010XL (JAX) 349 R 299 514 H 473 OVERALL / SEC 35-19 / 17-13 OVERALL / SEC 29-22 / 12-18 97 2B 83 H / A / N 28-7 / 7-12 / 0-0 H / A / N 22-13 / 7-9 / 0-0 13 3B 10 D1BASEBALL RANK 13 D1BASEBALL RANK -- 66 HR 62 HEAD COACH Kevin O’Sullivan / 582-275 (14th season) HEAD COACH Nick Mingione / 143-102 (5th season) 325 RBI 269 PROB. STARTER RHP Tommy Mace (5-1, 4.48 ERA) PROB. STARTER RHP Sean Harney (3-1, 3.86 ERA) .452 SLG% .448 249 BB 174 SERIES HISTORY OVERALL 144-70-1 IN GAINESVILLE 77-29 AWAY 62-38-1 NEUTRAL 5-3 466 SO 446 NOTABLE Kendrick Calilao came off the bench for two hits, including a 3-run HR on May 7 at Kentucky. Since then, he has slashed .452/.514/.839. .372 OB% .362 FLORIDA VISITS ARKANSAS: No. 13 Florida fi fth in the SEC with 101 strikeouts and fi fth CALI-LOUD: 1B/OF Kendrick Calilao has 30-46 SB-ATT 77-84 (35-19, 17-13 SEC) faces Kentucky (29-22, 12-18 with 80.1 innings pitched. posted multi-hit games in six of his last nine 4.31 ERA 5.00 16 SV 11 SEC) in its SEC Tournament opener on Tues- HERE COMES THE JUD: Over Florida's outings. Since May 7 at Kentucky, Calilao is BB day. Florida won the regular season series in last 18 games, OF Jud Fabian is slashing batting .452 with four home runs, 10 RBIs 159 180 SO Lexington, taking two of three. .344/.476/.859 with a team-high nine home and 10 runs scored while slugging .839. 494 469 The Gators are 68-65 all-time in 39 previ- runs, 17 RBI and four stolen bases. Fabian UNIQUE HITTING STREAK: Sophomore Jacob .245 BAA .266 ous SEC Tournament appearances, with a boasts a 15-to-17 strikeout-to-walk ratio Young broke Tim Olson’s 21-year-old record .969 FLD% .979 5-3 mark against Kentucky. Florida is 22-19 during that time, improving his season slash on Sunday, March 7, as he singled in the 61 E 37 overall vs. Kentucky under Kevin O'Sullivan, line to .267/.383/.634. Fabian has homered eighth inning to extend his hitting streak to a including 1-1 in Hoover with both of those twice on three straight Saturdays. record 30 games. Young hit .415 (51-123) over RADIO/TV ANNOUNCERS meeitngs coming at the 2014 tournament. the streak with 11 doubles, 18 RBI and 23 runs. Radio: Jeff Cardozo & Steve Russell BARCO DAY EQUALS WINNING WAYS: LHP SEC Network: Tom Hart, Ben MacDonald & Chris Burke GATORS IN THE RANKINGS: Florida ranks in- Hunter Barco boasts a 9-2 record on the sea- SULLY MAKES SCHOOL HISTORY: Gators head side the top four in the SEC in sacrifi ce fl ies son and 6-0 across his previous eight starts, coach Kevin O’Sullivan passed Dave Fuller (second; 28), doubles (fourth; 97), triples including wins in fi ve of his last six games for the most wins in program history. O’Sul- ON DECK (fourth; 13), and walks (fourth; 249). As a started. He has not lost a start since March 28 livan has 582 career wins and a .682 winning M25 Kentucky SEC Net. 10:30 a.m. SEC Tournament (M25-28) pitching staff , the Gators are tied for second at South Carolina. percentage (which ranks third among active J4 NCAA Regionals (J4-7) TBD TBD with 16 saves and rank second in fewest IT ALL DA' PENS: The Gator bullpen combined coaches with at least 10 Division I seasons). J11 NCAA Super Regionals (J11-14) TBD TBD walks allowed (159). for eight innings of relief without allowing an Fuller fi nished his illustrious Gators head J19 College World Series (J19-30) TBD TBD With four two-home run games, most re- earned run in the home home series fi nale coaching career with 556 wins from 1948-75. cently against Georgia on May 15, OF Jud vs. Georgia while striking out nine. Across the NEXT TIME OUT: Florida heads to Hoover, Fabian ranks second in the SEC with 20 recent series vs. Vanderbilt, Kentucky and Ala. for the SEC Tournament (May 25-30). 2021 TEAM INFORMATION home runs, becoming just the fi fth player Gerogia, Gator relievers went 2-1 with a 1.96 Letterwinners Returning / Lost: 28 / 7 in Florida baseball history to hit 20 homers ERA and 23 strikeouts in 23 innings. Position Starters Returning/Lost: 8 / 1 in one season. Fabian also ranks sixth in the Pitchers Returning / Lost: 16 / 2 SEC in walks (37) and seventh in total bases Newcomers: 10 (9 fresh.) (122), and ninth in runs (48). OF Jacob Young PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP (based off last game) is eighth in the SEC with 51 runs scored while NO NAME CL AVG AB R H HR RBI SLG OBP SB-ATT pacing the conference in plate appearances C 11 Nathan Hickey FR* .307 202 35 62 8 47 .515 .429 1-2 2020 RECAP (265) and at bats (229). Young is also tied for 1B 6 Kendrick Calilao JR* .308 91 20 28 5 18 .506 .381 0-0 2020 Overall Record: 16-1 (.941) second with 15 doubles, tied for fi fth with 2B 22 Cory Acton FR .222 45 8 10 0 6 .244 .444 2-3 2020 SEC Record: -- three triples, tied for eighth in hits (70 and 3B 52 Kirby McMullen GR .261 176 24 46 9 36 .466 .353 1-1 SEC Finish: -- tied for seventh in stolen bases (13). C Na- SS 24 Josh Rivera FR* .250 168 27 42 5 25 .405 .326 0-2 Home Record: 11-1 (.917) than Hickey is fourth in the SEC in walks (40) LF 1 Jacob Young SO* .306 229 51 70 3 36 .437 .383 13-14 Away Record: 5-0 (1.000) and tied for seventh in doubles (14). CF 4 Jud Fabian SO* .257 202 49 52 20 46 .604 .372 5-7 Neutral Site Record: 0-0 On the mound, RHP Hunter Barco is tied for RF 29 Sterlin Thompson FR .306 160 34 49 4 22 .469 .413 2-3 2020 Postseason: n/a third in the SEC with nine wins on the sea- DH 34 Kris Armstrong SO .287 122 21 35 7 25 .541 .355 0-1 son while Jack Leftwich is tied for seventh SP 47 Tommy Mace JR* 5-1 / 4.48 ERA / 80.1 IP / 80 H / 45 R / 40 ER / 19 BB / 101 K with seven victories of his own and ranks 12 Hunter Barco FR* 9-2 / 4.04 ERA / 75.2 IP / 71 H / 40 R / 34 ER / 25 BB / 92 K eighth with a .201 BAA. Tommy Mace ranks 35 Franco Aleman SO* 1-4 / 5.61 ERA / 59.1 IP / 63 H / 43 R / 37 ER / 18 BB / 58 K 1988 1991 1996 1998 2005 2010 2011 2012 2015 2016 2017 2018 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA BASEBALL 2021 GAME RESULTS DATE GAME OPPONENT TV TIME LOCATION W-L SCORE OVERALL SEC WIN LOSS SAVE ATT. TIME 2/19 1 No. 21 MIAMI SEC Net. 5:40 PM Gainesville W 7-5 1-0 Tommy Mace (1-0) Daniel Federman (0-1) Aleman (1) 1,418 3:06 2/20 2 No. 21 MIAMI SEC+ 1:00 PM Gainesville L 9-10 (13) 1-1 Ben Wanger (1-0) Jordan Butler (0-1) -- 1,583 4:53 2/21 3 No. 21 MIAMI SEC+ 1:00 PM Gainesville L 6-8 1-2 Anthony Arguelles (1-0) Hunter Barco (0-1) Palmquist (1) 1,668 3:44 2/23 4 at North Florida 6:05 PM Jacksonville, Fla. W 9-6 2-2 Jordan Butler (1-1) Ethan Jones (0-1) Specht (1) 125 3:00 2/24 5 NORTH FLORIDA 6:00 PM Gainesville W 8-3 3-2 Chase Centala (1-0) Max McKinley (1-1) -- 1,562 2:40 2/26 6 SAMFORD SEC+ 6:30 PM Gainesville W 8-4 4-2 Tommy Mace (2-0) Samuel Strickland (1-1) -- 1,743 2:30 2/27 7 SAMFORD SEC+ 4:00 PM Gainesville W 18-2 5-2 Jack Leftwich (1-0) Jesse McCord (0-1) -- 1,770 3:09 2/28 8 SAMFORD 1:00 PM Gainesville W 10-9 6-2 Brandon Sproat (1-0) Chase Isbell (0-1) -- 1,673 3:18 3/3 9 No. 21 FLA. ATLANTIC SEC+ 6:00 PM Gainesville L 2-3 6-3 Mike Entenza (1-0) Franco Aleman (0-1) -- 1,626 3:00 3/5 10 FLORIDA A&M - 1 4:00 PM Gainesville W 10-2 7-3 Tommy Mace (3-0) Kyle Coleman (0-2) -- 1,510 2:56 3/5 11 FLORIDA A&M - 2 7:30 PM Gainesville W 5-1 8-3 Jack Leftwich (2-0) Kelyn Fox (0-1) -- 1,724 2:26 3/7 12 FLORIDA A&M SEC+ 1:00 PM Gainesville W 8-0 9-3 Hunter Barco (1-1) Josh Hancock (0-3) -- 1,865 2:56 3/9 13 GEORGIA STATE SEC+ 6:00 PM Gainesville W 5-1 10-3 Garrett Milchin (1-0) Seth Clark (0-1) -- 1,657 2:44 3/10 14 STETSON SEC+ 6:00 PM Gainesville W 10-7 11-3 Brandon Sproat (2-0) Nick Chiseri (0-1) -- 1,680 3:27 3/12 15 JACKSONVILLE SEC+ 6:30 PM Gainesville L 9-10 11-4 Tyler Santana (2-2) Christian Scott (0-1) McCoy (1) 1,769 3:35 3/13 16 JACKSONVILLE SEC+ 6:30 PM Gainesville W 9-0 12-4 Jack Leftwich (3-0) Mike Cassala (1-2) -- 2,052 2:59 3/14 17 JACKSONVILLE SEC+ 1:00 PM Gainesville W 5-2 13-4 Hunter Barco (2-1) Mason Adams (1-1) Aleman (2) 1,844 2:43 3/16 18 at Florida State ACC 7:00 PM Tallahassee, Fla.