{"id":383273,"date":"2026-08-28T05:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383273\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T05:38:11","slug":"dolphins-downed-by-top-20-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383273\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins Downed By Top-20 Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/stats\/2026\/university-of-florida\/boxscore\/7651\" style=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box Score<\/a> <br \/>\nGAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 In a battle with 20th\u00a0ranked University of Florida, the Jacksonville Dolphins fell, 6-0.<\/p>\n<p>The game was Jacksonville&#8217;s first ranked matchup under head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/coaches\/ryan-moon\/1201\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1201\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Moon<\/a> and the first for the program since 2023. The loss was Jacksonville&#8217;s first of the season, as the team moved to 1-1-1 overall.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s game was the first against the Gators in 13 years. At the halftime break, the Gators were up 2-0 after defeating reigning NCAA champion #3 FSU, 3-1, four days prior.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville had to play a man down for most of the first half, and the duration of the game, after defender <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/lina-ballmann\/7059\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7059\" target=\"_blank\">Lina Ballmann<\/a> was given a red card in the 21st\u00a0minute. On the ensuing free kick following the red, Florida scored to push the game to its halftime score.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins lobbed a single shot in the opening 45 minutes courtesy of freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/ula-omerzu\/8826\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8826\" target=\"_blank\">Ula Omerzu<\/a>. Omerzu continues to lead the team in shots, with eight on the young season. Florida had eight shots and four total shots on goal. In the net, junior keeper <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/taylor-gardner\/8829\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8829\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Gardner<\/a> had two saves at the stoppage. Florida&#8217;s opening goal was the first goal allowed by Jacksonville all season and the first by Gardner in a full 180 minutes of action.<\/p>\n<p>At Thursday&#8217;s halftime break, the Gators hadn&#8217;t trailed at half across their first three games. The second half found Florida with another goal in the 56th\u00a0minute. Florida scored twice in the 65th\u00a0minute to push the game to 5-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At Donald R. Dizney Stadium, Jacksonville did get the first appearance of the season for <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=8833\" rev=\"8833\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ragna Magn\u00fasd\u00f3ttir<\/a> who played 70 minutes in the place of Ballmann. It was also the second consecutive appearance for <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/payton-lauer\/6927\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6927\" target=\"_blank\">Payton Lauer<\/a>, who played 17 minutes. Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/logan-griffin\/8832\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8832\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Griffin<\/a> saw her second collegiate game, playing the game&#8217;s final three minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville stays in the state of Florida for its next game, traveling down to Boca Raton for a tilt against FAU on Thursday, Sep. 3. First kick is set for 7 p.m. and will be streamed on FAUSports.com.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; Box Score GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 In a battle with 20th\u00a0ranked University of Florida,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-383273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383273","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=383273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}