GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The No. 5\/8 Florida softball team (24-1, 1-0 SEC) opened Southeastern Conference play with a 5-4 win over Missouri (7-14, 0-1 SEC) on Saturday afternoon in front of a crowd of 2,029 fans at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium.<\/p>\n
Florida scored all five of its runs from three home runs off the bats of Ella Wesolowski<\/a>, Townsen Thomas<\/a> and Jocelyn Erickson<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wesolowski put the Gators on the board first with a solo home run in the second inning, Thomas tied up the game at 3 with a two-run shot in the fourth inning and Erickson put Florida in front for good with a two-run home run in the sixth.<\/p>\n In the circle, Keagan Rothrock<\/a> (12-1) struck out 10 Tigers, a new career-best in SEC play, throwing her sixth complete-game of the season.<\/p>\n Rothrock now holds a 61-17 career record in the circle, including a 15-6 career mark in conference play.<\/p>\n NOTABLES:
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\n\tTownsen Thomas<\/a> has now hit two home runs this season, both two-run shots
\n\tWith her solo home run in the bottom of the second, Ella Wesolowski<\/a> has now hit four home runs this season, a new single-season career-best
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\n\t\tFour of her 10 career home runs have come against SEC opponents
\n\t\tThree of her four home runs this season have been solo home runs
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\n\tJocelyn Erickson<\/a> has hit a team-best 12 home runs this season, nine of which have been two-run home runs
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\n\t\tErickson has slugged 42 home runs as a Gator, moving into sole possession of eighth-most home runs in program history
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\n\tKeagan Rothrock<\/a> has now tallied double-digit strikeouts three times this season and five times in her career
\n\tKenleigh Cahalan<\/a> extended her on-base streak to 25 games
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\n\t\tBoth Cahalan and Erickson are on nine-game hitting streaks, a team-high
\n\t\tCahalan has recorded a hit in 22 of 25 games this season
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\n\tTaylor Shumaker<\/a> has recorded multi-hit games in six of the last seven games
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\n\t\tShumaker now has 14 multi-hit games this season, a team-best
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\n\tThe Gators have tallied 17 multi-home run games this season and 11 games with three or more home runs
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\n\t\tFlorida has hit multiple home runs in eight straight games
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\n\tFlorida is now 13-0 at Katie Seashole Pressly and 8-0 on Saturdays
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\nThe Gators will go for the series win against Missouri on Sunday at 4 p.m. on SEC Network.<\/p>\n
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