Florida softball advances to SEC Tournament Championship

The Gators will battle for the SEC title against Mizzou on Saturday afternoon.

Florida softball punched its ticket to the Southeastern Conference Tournament Championships on Friday with a 7-3 victory over the Texas A&M Aggies at Jane B. Moore Field in Auburn, Alabama in the semifinal round. The Orange and Blue now moves on to its 10th SEC Tournament Championship game.

The win capped a 2-0 day for the Gators as they defeated the seventh-seeded Georgia Bulldogs in the quarterfinals earlier in the day. It took nine hits, five walks and a pair of home runs to get the job done; Keagan Rothrock’s 20th complete-game performance of the season included six strikeouts and zero walks en route to the victory.

[autotag]Skylar Wallace[/autotag] extended her hit streak to seven straight games after a single to center field in the first inning and she also reached base safely for the 10th consecutive game. The redshirt senior also tallied her 22nd multi-hit game of the year when she belted her 12th home run of the season in the bottom of the second.

The Gators will take on fifth-seeded Missouri Tigers in the SEC Tournament Championship on Saturday at 5 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

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