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2021 FLORIDA STATE SOFTBALL 1981 & 1982 AIAW National Champions – 2018 NCAA National Champions 11 WCWS Appearances (1987, ‘90, ‘91, ‘92, ‘93, 2002, ‘04, ‘14, ‘16, ‘18, ‘21) 17 Atlantic Coast Conference Championships (1992, ‘93, ‘95, ‘96, ‘97, ‘98, ‘99, 2000, ‘03, ‘04, ‘11, ‘14, ‘15, ‘16, ‘17, ‘18, ‘19) 32 NCAA Championship Appearances – 34 All-Americans – 51 All-America Honors – 141 All-ACC Honors SOFTBALL CONTACT: BRET CLEIN // 954-802-4770 // [email protected] SCHEDULE/RESULTS JUNE 3-9, 2021 - WOMEN’S COLLEGE WORLD SERIES Overall ..........................................................................................44-10-1 No. 10 Florida State Seminoles || Atlantic Coast Conference ACC .............................................................................................................26-4-1 Home ............................................................................................................22-3 Head Coach Lonni Alameda (Oklahoma ‘93) // Overall: 756-335-3 // at FSU: 599-177-2 Away ..........................................................................................................18-3-1 Neutral ...........................................................................................................4-4 Florida State: 44-10-1 // ACC: 26-5-1 // Home: 22-3 // Away: 18-3-1 // Neutral: 4-4 FEBRUARY JoAnne Graf Classic - Tallahassee, Fla. Thurs. 11 Florida A&M Postponed No. 2 UCLA Bruins || PAC-12 Fri. 12 Memphis (ACCNX) W, 9-0 (5) Head Coach Kelly Inouye-Perez // at UCLA 671-178-1 Fri. 12 No. 24 Missouri (ACCNX) W, 9-2 Sat. 13 Memphis (ACCNX) W, 3-2 UCLA: 46-5 // PAC-12:19-2 // Home: 30-2 // Away: 14-2 // Neutral: 2-1 Sat. 13 No. 24 Missouri (ACCNX) L, 9-5 Tues. 16 Southern Miss (ACCN) Postponed No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide || Southeastern Conference ACC Pods - Atlanta, Ga. Head Coach Patrick Murphy // Overall: 1175-338 // at Alabama 1147-318 Thurs. 18 Georgia Tech* (ACCN) W, 8-1 Thurs. 18 Georgia Tech* (ACCN) W, 7-3 Alabama: 50-7 // SEC: 18-6 // Home: 38-4 // Away: 10-3 // Neutral: 2-0 Fri. 19 Georgia Tech* (ACCN) W, 5-4 Sat. 20 No. 15 Virginia Tech* W, 7-1 Sat. 20 No. 15 Virginia Tech* L, 9-1 (5) Sun. 21 No. 15 Virginia Tech* L, 6-0 No. 11 Arizona Wildcats || PAC-12 Unconquered Invitational - Tallahassee, Fla. Head Coach Mike Candrea // Overall: 1858-503-2 // at Arizona 1674-434-2 Fri. 26 Florida Gulf Coast (ACCN) W, 7-0 Sat. 27 Florida Gulf Coast (ACCNX) W, 4-1 Arizona: 41-13 // SEC: 12-10 // Home: 28-3 // Away: 13-10 // Neutral: 0-0 Sat. 27 Southeast Louisiana (ACCNX) W, 3-0 MARCH No. 1 Oklahoma Sooners || Big-12 Fri. 5 No. 5 Florida (SEC Network) L, 5-0 Sat. 6 No. 5 Florida (ACCNX) W, 7-2 Head Coach Patty Gasso // Overall: 1491-398-3 // at Oklahoma 1342-342-2 Thurs. 11 No. 2 Arizona (ACCNX) W, 4-2 Oklahoma: 50-2 // Big-12: 16-1 // Home: 21-0 // Away: 16-2 // Neutral: 13-0 Fri. 12 No. 2 Arizona (ACCNX) L, 1-0 Sat. 13 No. 2 Arizona (ACCNX) W, 2-0 No. 5 Oklahoma State Cowgirls || Big-12 Sat. 20 Kennesaw State W, 11-0 Sat. 20 Auburn (SECN+) W, 10-1 Head Coach Kenny Gajewski // Overall: 220-105 // at Oklahoma State 220-105 Sun. 21 Kennesaw State W, 3-2 Sun. 21 Auburn (SECN+) L, 2-1 Oklahoma State: 47-10 // Big-12: 15-3 // Home: 23-5 // Away: 14-2 // Neutral: 10-3 Fri. 26 Boston College* (ACCNX) W, 3-2 Fri. 26 Boston College* (ACCNX) W, 5-0 Sat. 27 Boston College* (ACCNX) W, 4-1 Georgia Bulldogs || Southeastern Conference Sat. 27 Boston College* (ACCNX) W, 10-2 (5) Head Coach Lu Harris-Champer // Overall: 1168-430-1 // at Georgia 959-366 APRIL Georgia: 34-21 // SEC:7-17 // Home: 24-12 // Away: 9-8 // Neutral: 1-1 Fri. 2 Notre Dame* (ACCN) W, 3-1 Sat. 3 Notre Dame* (ACCNX) W. 8-0 (6) Sat. 3 Notre Dame* (ACCNX) W, 8-0 (5) Sun. 4 Notre Dame* (ACCNX) W, 5-0 James Madison || Colonial Athletic Association Head Coach Loren LaPorte // at James Madison 383-88 Fri. 9 No. 20 Duke* (ESPNU) W, 5-0 Sat. 10 No. 20 Duke* (ACCNX) W, 3-0 James Madison: 39-2 // CAA: 17-1 // Home: 22-0 // Away: 13-2 // Neutral: 4-0 Sun. 11 No. 20 Duke* (ACCN) W, 4-3 Fri. 16 Syracuse* (ACCNX) W, 7-3 Sat. 17 Syracuse* (ACCNX) W, 9-0 (6) Sat. 17 Syracuse* (ACCNX) W, 3-2 (8) Sun. 18 Syracuse* (ACCNX) W, 13-1 (5) QUICK HITS Fri. 23 Louisville* (ACCN) W, 10-0 Fri. 23 Louisville* (ACCNX) L, 5-1 Sun. 25 Louisville* (ACCN) W, 9-0 (5) » Florida State enters the WCWS ranked No. 9 by USA Softball and No. 8 by the NFCA. The Noles Sun. 25 Louisville* (ACCNX) T, 0-0 (12) have been ranked in 123 consecutive polls by USA Softball. Fri. 30 NC State* (ACCNX) W, 2-1 » Florida State had six student-athletes earn All-ACC Honors. Sydney Sherrill led the back being MAY named the ACC’s Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight team. She was joined on Sat. 1 NC State* (ACCNX) W, 6-1 Sat. 1 NC State* (ACCNX) L, 5-2 the All-ACC First Team by Devyn Flaherty and Kathryn Sandercock. Caylan Arnold was selected Sun. 2 NC State* (ACCNX) W, 4-1 to the second team and Kalei Harding and Dani Morgan were selected to the third team. Fri. 7 Pitt* (ACCNX) L, 6-5 Flaherty and Harding were also named to the All-Freshman Team. Sat. 8 Pitt* (ACCNX) W, 5-4 Sat. 8 Pitt* (ACCNX) W, 14-0 (5) » Through 55 games this season, the Seminoles have shown their speed recording 107 stolen Thu. 13 NC State (ACCN) W, 2-0 bases in 121 attempts. Devyn Flaherty leads the Noles with 16 stolen bases. Fri. 14 No. 21 Duke (ACCN) L, 4-3 » The Seminole offense has scored 275 runs in the first 55 games of the season. This has come Fri. 21 Kennesaw State (ESPN3) W, 6-2 as the Seminoles have put together 116 total extra base hits, including 42 home runs and 69 Sat. 22 UCF (ESPN3) W, 3-0 Sun. 23 UCF (ACCN) W, 2-0 doubles to go with five triples. Cassidy Davis is leading the way with eight doubles, one triple Thu. 27 No. 7 LSU (ESPN) W, 1-0 and nine home runs Fri. 28 No. 7 LSU (ESPN2) W, 4-3 (9) » The Florida State pitching staff is a three headed monster lead by Kathryn Sandercock. She JUNE along with Caylan Arnold and Danielle Watson have combined for 44 wins and a team ERA of Thu-Wed June 3-9 Women’s College World Series - OKC 1.61. Arnold leads Florida State with 132 strikeouts and Sandercock leads the team with a * - ACC game | All game times are EST | Home Games Rankings are from USA Softball | RV - receiving votes 1.09 ERA and a 24-2 record. Watson and Arnold both have 10 wins each » The Florida State pitching staff has combined for a 1.61 ERA good for 7th best in the country . 2021 FLORIDA STATE SEMINOLE SOFTBALL • 1981, 1982, 2018 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 1 WCWS HISTORY eliminated UCLA from the 2016 and 2018 the eighth but Elizabeth Mason was not » The Seminoles hope to continue their Women’s College World Series with an 8-4 ready for the game to be over as she tied winning ways at the WCWS, as they have win on June 4, 2016, and a 12-6 win on June it up in the bottom of the eighth with a won their last six games in Oklahoma City. 3, 2018. solo shot of her own. In the bottom of the Florida State is hoping to reverse their ninth Kiersten Lander’s entered the game trend of slow starts in OKC though, as they AGAINST THE WCWS as a pinch hitter and slapped a ball past have only one the first game of the WCWS » Overall, Florida State is a combined 43-56 the third baseman to score Dani Morgan twice in their first 10 appearances. FSU against the teams in the 2021 Women’s from third and advance the Seminoles to earned a win in the first game - 1990 (1-0 College World Series, but are 2-1 against the WCWS. vs. Fresno State) and 2002 (2-1 vs. UCLA). those teams this season, with wins over » In its most recent trip to OKC in 2018, FSU No. 11 Arizona (2-1) POSTSEASON NUMBERS dropped its first game to UCLA (7-4), but » Devyn Flaherty, Cassidy Davis, Sydney went on to win the next six games to win FIFTH FSU ELITE 8 IN 2021 Sherrill and Elizabeth Mason are all leading the National Championship. The Garnet and » The Seminole softball program is one of the Seminoles at the dish this postseason. Gold became the third team to lose their many successful athletic programs at » Flaherty is hitting .375 to lead all FSU first game of the WCWS and come all the Florida State and is the fifth team to reach batters. way back through the losers bracket to a top eight final finish in their respective » Davis is hitting .364 but leads the Noles win the title, joining Texas A&M (1983) and sports this season, following soccer, beach with a .500 ob% this postseason. She has UCLA (2003) volleyball, women’s tennis and men’s indoor two home runs and five RBI in five games. » Overall, the Seminoles are 14-19 all-time at track. » Sydney Sherrill and Elizabeth Mason have the Women’s College World Series. » Overall, of Florida State’s 20 sports, 16 stepped up this postseason, hitting .357 ALL-TIME WCWS RESULTS of them have been NCAA Quarterfinalists and .333 respectively.