No. 3 Softball Tops No. 2 Texas in the series finale

Gaineville, Florida-Das Florida-Softballtball team of Florida No. 3 achieved a 3-1 win against number 2 in Texas in Texas on Monday evening with the Longhorns in Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium.

In front of 2,108 people, the Gator had recorded their highest home win since the end of the state of Florida on April 12, 2017 in Florida.

Freshman Pitcher Katelynn Oxley (4-2) achieved her first victory in Southeastern Conference in the district and only allowed one run, not deserved and two goals in five innerings of work.

Sophomore Ava Brown She scored her second rescue of the season, entered the game in the fifth with a runner and without outs and threw two Hitless Innings.

Newcomer Taylor Shumaker recorded the biggest hit of the night for the Gators, a two-RBI double, which Florida brought the lead at the end of third place.

The Gators now have a 28:4 record in the season and 3-3 in the second game.

Testify:

• Brown and Oxley held Texas up to a season low in both runs (1) and hits (2).

  • The Longhorns had not been recorded in one game since May 11, 2024 against Oklahoma.

• With two RBI at night, Shumaker now has 48 in the season and has moved in a tie for the fifth RBI from a newcomer in Florida with Amanda Lorenz (2016).

  • Shumaker leads the team with 14 multi-RBI games

• senior Kendra Falby expanded their strips to 32 games and their stroke series to 18 games

  • Falby recorded at least one goal in all of the games to two games

• Mia Williams' Sacrificial flying in the fourth inning was the first of her career
• This is Florida's first victory against Texas since February 24, 2012 in Palm Springs, California. The gators won this match 5-1
• Florida recorded her second successful season in the first inning of Catcher Jocelyn Erickson To the first Baseman Reagan Walsh

Listen from the Gators:
In the ability of the team to jump back on Saturday after the two losses …

“If you set up as good as Katelynn and Ava, we will probably win every game when you take up. It was a really good Pitching performance. I said to go into the series that it would be like a team picture of a team. Obviously you have set much better this weekend than we were. – head coach Tim Walton

To Katelynn Oxley Improvement in game 3 of the series …
“I cannot accelerate the maturation process. Obviously, she has a good spin rate, she has two places, she has deception with the tough, jerky movement, she is a competitor, she is a champion. Tim Walton

To Taylor Shumaker A mature beyond a newcomer …
“I think this child really received ripening right from the start. Taylor Shumaker Said I will meet a Homerun on my first day. I think there is a lot of ripeness in Taylor Shumaker. It has played at the highest level for a long time. Her (club) trainer was really hard for her because he had so many really good ones in front of her and understood her potential and her leadership qualities, your drive and make -up. Her ability to stay in the ball does it really well. It was an insider pitch that she probably stopped at 68-69 from Mac Morgan, and she stayed inside and turned her into the left center of the center that not many people can do. So she has the IT factor; She is ripe and works really hard. The feedback that she gave us is probably the biggest surprise. It is confidence in feedback that has progressed. These are things that people normally do until they get a little older. Usually it happens after failure, she speaks through success and failure about it, it is rare. I haven't seen such a child. ” – head coach Tim Walton



In their changes against Texas Pitcher Mac Morgan …
“In the last one and a half days in which we worked after the Doubleader, I only knew that there was a lot more to step against them because I did not cut very well for the first time. Taylor Shumaker

To step on second jugs and in big moments …
“I knew that the competition would be so much different if we got into the second game. Obviously it is still softball, but I knew that they are confronted with an all-American in every game. Moments and it will not always be and I agree. Taylor Shumaker

About how she improved in her second start of the weekend …
“I think it's because I am a newcomer. Many physical results begin with the mentality aspect. I constantly speak to my teammates, my trainers and learn how to improve this page to do my physical side better. Constantly working with trainer Steph (vanbrakle Proshro) and everyone else better if everyone else is in my area Katelynn Oxley

About what has changed mentally for them …
Something that I mentally changed into the game was that I had to rely on my teammates. I have a great team behind me and I will only throw the ball to the best of strength and whatever happens. I am good enough and my team is good enough to win and I just have to trust. Trust was mentally a big aspect for me in both series and also in nervousness. I'm a newcomer, so that will happen. But my teammates have my back, I have a great pitching staff in which I can support myself, and I have a great pitching staff in which I can support and from whom I can learn. I think that changes for me. Go deeper in counts, deeper in games, deeper in lineups. ” – newcomer Katelynn Oxley

Next:
The Gators travel to Jacksonville to play a few during the week.

Florida will play in Jacksonville on Wednesday at 6 p.m. and on Thursday at 6 p.m.

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