Florida's No. 1-seeded baseball team was expected to make it to the first Sunday of the NCAA Tournament unscathed, what with their roster returning two players who weren't exactly in starring roles while the Gators made their run to the SEC Tournament final a week ago.
And the Gators did make it to Sunday unscathed — but they had two wildly different games en route to their 2-0 start.
On Friday, Florida got its last taste of what it's like to begin a weekend series against a totally undermatched team with Logan Shore on the mound. Florida opened up a 7-0 lead on Bethune-Cookman by the end of the fourth inning by scoring in each of the four frames to that point, then cruised to a 9-3 victory behind a bounce-back outing for Shore.