Softball Opens Series With 5-3 Win Over Georgia

Thursday, April 30

Athens, Ga.

6 p.m.

Florida Gators

47-7, 17-5

Georgia

34-17, 10-12

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Florida	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	5	8	0
Georgia	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	6	0

Jocelyn Erickson celebrates after driving in the go-ahead RBI double at Georgia

Jocelyn Erickson had the go-ahead RBI double in the top of the seventh.

Softball Opens Series With 5-3 Win Over Georgia

Thursday, April 30, 2026 | Softball

Box Score

By: Lauren Staff

ATHENS, Ga. – Behind a seventh-inning two-out two-run rally, the No. 6/8 Florida softball team (47-7, 17-5 SEC) secured the series-opening win over No. 17/14 Georgia (34-17, 10-12 SEC) on Thursday evening at Jack Turner Softball Stadium.

All five of Florida's five runs came with two outs, including a pair of home runs from Townsen Thomas and Ava Brown in the top of the fourth and back-to-back RBIs from Jocelyn Erickson and Kendall Grover in the top of the seventh.

Georgia got on the board first in the bottom of the third with a solo home run.

The Gators responded with Thomas and Browns' home runs to give them a 3-1 lead in the top of the fourth.

Georgia hit a two-run equalizer over the center field wall to make it 3-all in the home side of the fourth,

In the seventh inning, Erickson worked a full-count RBI double, her 14^th of the year, to drive in Gabi Comia.

In the next at-bat, Kendall Grover drove in Erickson with an RBI single to left field, putting the Gators up 5-2.

Despite a pair of Bulldog singles in the bottom of the seventh, Florida was able to close out the win and strand runners on first and second.

Keagan Rothrock (26-5) improved to 13-3 in Southeastern Conference play, tossing her 16^th complete game, allowing three runs on six hits with five strikeouts.

NOTABLES:

Head coach Tim Walton earned his 1,200th win as a head coach. He is the 18th coach in NCAA Division 1 history to reach the milestone and is the 7th active coach with 1,200 or more wins
Ava Brown recorded her second-straight multi-hit game. She now has three multi-hit and 10 multi-RBI games this season
- Brown has hit three home runs over the past seven games and has eight on the season
- Of Brown's eight home runs, five have been multi-run home runs
Brown reached in all three of her plate appearances, recording a home run, a single and drawing a walk
Townsen Thomas hit her fifth home run of the season and her second in the last three games
- Thomas has had multi-hit games in three of her last four outings, bringing her season total to 20. She also extended her hitting streak to 13 games
- Of her five home runs, three have been in SEC play
The Gators are 24-1 on the season and 7-0 in SEC play when they hit two or more home runs in a game