The Florida Gators went to Coral Gables this past weekend with what looked like a pretty good baseball team having an excellent start to the season.
They left it with three wins over a Miami team that was No. 1 in one poll, an extension of their on-field and psychic dominance of the Hurricanes — and the last leg of a historic sweep for the Gators.
All three games at Mark Light Field were nail-biters for at least some stretch, but Friday and Saturday were especially close and back-and-forth.
In Game 1, the Gators and ‘Canes played scoreless ball for the first four innings, traded single runs over the fifth and sixth, and went without scoring again until the 11th inning, when Jacob Young capped a three-hit half-inning with an RBI double to left that scored the winning run, with Nick Pogue working a perfect inning after a leadoff walk by winning pitcher Ben Specht to get the save.