Florida Gators softball is heating up ahead of the split series Tuesday and Wednesday night against Jacksonville.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No. 6 Florida<\/a> went undefeated this past weekend after sweeping the five-game competition at the USF-Rawlings Invitational in Tampa. The Gators outscored their opponents 37-4, including shutouts against Illinois State 7-0 and Bethune-Cookman 8-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Gators (5-0) also defeated Michigan<\/a>, Kansas and host USF.\u00a0<\/p>\n Junior starting pitcher Keagan Rothrock won three of the five games for the Gators. She recorded 22 strikeouts with a 1.19 ERA in 17.2 innings, allowing only six hits and three runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n Senior infielder Kenleigh Cahalan leads the Gators in hitting, recording an even .500 and a team-leading .875 slugging percentage. She also leads the team with six RBI and 14 total bases.\u00a0<\/p>\n Senior catcher Jocelyn Erickson drove in four runs and went 4-for-7.\u00a0<\/p>\n Junior catcher Ella Wesolowski, a transfer from Mississippi State, hit her seventh home run of her career and her first as a Gator in the game against USF.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Jacksonville is coming into the games 3-1 with a sweep over UMass last weekend.<\/p>\n The Gators hold a 31-0 all-time record against Jacksonville dating to 2004. Last season, Florida swept the Dolphins with scores of 5-2 and 10-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jacksonville has a strong pitching staff with a team 1.40 ERA by only allowing two runs per game. The Gators have a team batting average of .362 and a .577 slugging percentage after opening weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n First pitch for both games will be at 6 p.m. with live coverage on 98.1-FM\/AM-850 WRUF starting at 5:40 p.m. in Jacksonville today and Wednesday at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium.<\/p>\n Category: College Softball<\/a>, Gator Sports<\/a>, Gators Softball<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Gators softball is heating up ahead of the split series Tuesday and Wednesday night against Jacksonville.\u00a0 No.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,14888,72633,16578,11723,72634,71593],"class_list":{"0":"post-150411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-gators-softball","12":"tag-jacksonville-softball","13":"tag-jocelyn-erickson","14":"tag-keagan-rothrock","15":"tag-kenleigh-cahalan","16":"tag-usf-rawlings-invitational"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}