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Ole Miss Drops Softball Doubleheader At No. 25 Florida
3/29/2003 | Softball
March 29, 2003
Game One Box Score | Game Two Box Score
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The Ole Miss softball team suffered its second straight SEC series loss by dropping both games of a doubleheader at Florida Sunday. The 25th-ranked Gators took game one, 6-1, and game two, 2-1.
The Rebels (14-20, 3-8 SEC) look to salvage the finale of the three-game set Sunday at 1 p.m. ET at Florida Softball Field.
Florida (26-10, 9-2 SEC) attacked quickly in the early game, using three hits and two hit-batters to plate four runs in the second inning. A bases-clearing, three-run double down the leftfield line by Mandy Schuerman keyed the rally. The Gators extended their lead to 5-0 in the third off a Nikki Baldwin RBI-double.
Ole Miss got a run back in the sixth inning, courtesy of a pair of its Florida natives. DeDe Justice from Vero Beach singled to open the frame, and Desiree Layman from West Palm Beach doubled to centerfield two batters later. An errant Gator throw on a pickoff attempt at third base allowed Justice to reach home, but the Rebel scoring outburst would end there.
UF winning pitcher Jenny Gladding limited Ole Miss to four hits with eight strikeouts over six innings. Reliever Amanda Moore surrendered a pair of UM baseknocks in the seventh but kept the Rebels off the scoreboard.
UM senior Lindsay Price (8-9) allowed six hits in the complete-game loss.
Britte Hardy started Ole Miss off in the late game, opening the contest with a single and later scoring on a Layman groundball up the middle. Florida answered the Rebels' run in the third inning with a Jackie Marchetta RBI-sacrifice fly.
The game remained knotted at 1-1 until the sixth when the Gators plated the game-winning run. A pair of hits chased away Rebel starting pitcher Dana Brill, and Price made her second appearance of the day to record the final two outs. However, the first out was a sac-fly to Jennifer Mossadeghi that drove home the go-ahead score.
UF starter Schuerman allowed one run and four hits before exiting in the fifth inning with a pair of Rebels on base. Gladding (12-6) returned in game two and shut down Ole Miss over the final 1.1 innings for her second victory of the afternoon.
Brill (1-7) scattered six hits and two runs over 5.1 frames in the loss.
Florida 6, Ole Miss 1 (Mar 29, 2003 at Gainesville, Fla.) (Game 1)----------------------------------------------------------------------Ole Miss....... 000 001 0 - 1 6 0 (14-19, 3-7 SEC)Florida.......... 041 001 X - 6 6 2 (25-10, 8-2 SEC)----------------------------------------------------------------------Pitchers: Ole Miss - Price. Florida - Gladding; Moore(7).Win-Gladding(11-6) Loss-Price(8-9) T-2:13
Florida 2, Ole Miss 1 (Mar 29, 2003 at Gainesville, Fla.) (Game 2)----------------------------------------------------------------------Ole Miss........ 100 000 0 - 1 4 1 (14-20, 3-8 SEC)Florida........... 001 001 X - 2 6 2 (26-10, 9-2 SEC)----------------------------------------------------------------------Pitchers: Ole Miss - Brill; Price(6). Florida - Schuerman; Gladding(6).Win-Gladding(12-6) Loss-Brill(1-7) T-2:00 Att-653
