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Oklahoma State 2, Florida 1: Samantha Show’s solo shots send Gators to losers’ bracket

The Florida Gators got great games from Kelly Barnhill and Amanda Lorenz in their first game at the 2019 Women’s College World Series.

But Oklahoma State got a greater one from pitcher/slugger Samantha Show — who tagged Barnhill for two solo homers, the only two Okie State hits of the game, and went the distance in a complete game of her own — that sent the Gators to a 2-1 defeat and the long road of the WCWS losers’ bracket.

Show, facing the Gators for a second straight postseason after a transfer from Texas A&M to Oklahoma State, got her revenge for Florida’s walk-off Super Regional victory in 2018 by taking Barnhill deep in the first and sixth innings, putting the Gators on their heels early and in a hole late.