{"id":195792,"date":"2026-03-18T02:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195792\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T02:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T02:37:08","slug":"thomas-claims-sec-softball-freshman-of-the-week-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195792\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Claims SEC Softball Freshman of the Week Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 After helping lead the No. 5\/8 Florida softball team to a 3-0 weekend at Kentucky, <a href=\"https:\/\/floridagators.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/townsen-thomas\/17780\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17780\" target=\"_blank\">Townsen Thomas<\/a> earned her first Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week honors, the league office announced on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas batted a team-best .667 (6-for-9) with four doubles, four RBI, four runs, a stolen base and a walk while in Lexington.<\/p>\n<p>The redshirt freshman entered the weekend with four career doubles, doubling that number over three games.<\/p>\n<p>She set a new career-best of two doubles in game one on March 13, and recorded one double in both game two and in the series finale.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas had two hits in all three games and extended her hitting streak to 14 games.<\/p>\n<p>Six games into conference play, the Humble, Texas, native, is leading the Gators in batting average (.500) and on-base percentage (.571).<\/p>\n<p>Thomas and the Gators return to Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium on March 20-22 to host No. 1 Tennessee. Florida&#8217;s annual Yellow Game is slated for Saturday, March 21.<\/p>\n<p><a data-uw-rm-kbnav=\"anohref\" name=\"_Hlk63067436\">FOLLOW THE GATORS<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a data-uw-original-href=\"http:\/\/www.floridagators.com\/softball\/\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.floridagators.com\/softball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FloridaGators.com<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a data-uw-original-href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GatorsSB\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GatorsSB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Softball on Twitter<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a data-uw-original-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_TimWalton\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_TimWalton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Head Coach Tim Walton on Twitter<\/a><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a data-uw-original-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GatorsSB\" data-uw-rm-brl=\"PR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GatorsSB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Softball on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 After helping lead the No. 5\/8 Florida softball team to a 3-0 weekend at Kentucky,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-195792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195792","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=195792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}