{"id":283857,"date":"2026-05-25T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283857\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T18:06:11","slug":"florida-gators-host-ncaa-baseball-regional-includes-miami-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283857\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Gators host NCAA baseball regional; includes Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

GAINESVILLE \u2014 The red-hot Florida baseball team<\/a> will have chance to get back to the College World Series playing on the Gators\u2019 home field.<\/p>\n

Coach Kevin O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s squad<\/a> was awarded the No. 8 national seed in the 64-team NCAA Tournament and will host Miami<\/a> (38-18) \u2014 the No. 2 seed in the Gainesville Regional \u2014 No. 3\u00a0Troy (32-29) and No. 4 Rider (33-18).<\/p>\n

UF opens at 1 p.m. Friday against Rider on ESPN+. Miami and Troy will meet at 6 p.m. on the ACC Network.<\/p>\n

The winners will meet Saturday. Florida and Miami met during the season\u2019s opening weeks, with the Gators prevailing 7-2 on Feb. 27 and 8-4 on Feb. 28. Inclement weather canceled the third game of the series.<\/p>\n

Winners of 10 of their last 12 games and featuring a nation-best 15-7 record against top-25 opponents, the Gators will host a Super Regional if they prevail during the double-elimination series, slated to run Friday-Sunday at Condron Family Ballpark.<\/p>\n

Florida, ranked ninth by Baseball America<\/a> and No. 11 in the RPI, closed the regular season by winning three straight SEC series. UF then reached the conference tournament semifinals before squandering a 6-0 lead during an 8-7 loss to fourth-ranked Georgia.<\/p>\n

The Gators have hosted a regional 13 times under O\u2019Sullivan and reached the NCAA Tournament in each of his 19 seasons in Gainesville.<\/p>\n

SEC Pitcher of the Year Aidan King, who is 8-2 with a 2.48 ERA and 89 strikeouts in 84 innings, anchors the Gators\u2019 staff. Outfielder Blake Cyr, a senior who transferred from Miami in 2024<\/a>, and sophomore third baseman Ethan Surowiec are the team\u2019s two leading hitters and earned spots on the SEC All-Tournament team.<\/p>\n

Cyr was 9-for-13 (.692) and had 19 total bases, while hitting two home runs, two doubles and a triple, while scoring six runs in the SEC Tournament. He leads Florida with a .338 batting average while hitting 13 homers, 15 doubles, 56 RBI and scoring 50 runs.<\/p>\n

Surowiec was 6-for-12 with a homer, two doubles and four runs during the conference tournament. He leads Florida with 61 RBI and has 11 home runs, 14 doubles and 51 runs.<\/p>\n

Sophomore shortstop Brendan Lawson leads the Gators with 16 homers and 63 runs, while batting .308 with 43 RBI.<\/p>\n

Edgar Thompson can be reached at egthompson@orlandosentinel.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE \u2014 The red-hot Florida baseball team will have chance to get back to the College World Series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,28,2530,2496,114,123,125,124,76046,110],"class_list":["post-283857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-college-sports","tag-florida","tag-florida-gators","tag-gainesville","tag-latest-headlines","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-social-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283857","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=283857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}