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Virginia 5, Florida 4: Gators fall on night of maybes, mights, couldas, and shouldas

It was the little things that did Florida in this time, in this 5-4 loss to Virginia in an elimination game that sent the Gators home from Omaha and kept the Cavaliers in the hunt for a national title.

It's always the little things, it seems.

Florida had the big ones covered, with two big flies — the new deepest homer in TD Ameritrade Park history, from Peter Alonso, and the one that will assuredly be the last of Harrison Bader's Gators career. Starter Dane Dunning was good, as good as could have been hoped, allowing three runs over 4.