GAINESVILLE, Fl. – The No. 25 Texas A&M softball team (34-17, 9-12 SEC) fell 9-1 to Florida (47-4, 16-4 SEC) in five innings on Sunday afternoon.
Freshman Kayla Ober pitched two full innings with five earned runs on eight hits. Senior Rachel Fox pitched 1.1 innings, allowing a single run before being relieved by junior Katie Marks, who finished the game with three runs on two hits.
A bomb from freshman Tori Vidales put the Aggies up early in the first but the Gators answered, putting up three runs on three RBI singles. A 4-6-3 double play got the Aggies out of a bases loaded jam to end the inning.
Florida stretched its lead by two in the bottom of the second, scoring on back-to-back singles and stolen bases sent home by RBI ground outs.
With the score at 5-1, neither team could scratch anything across in the third. The Gators tacked on another run in the home half of fourth to bring their total to six on ten hits.
Florida put the final nail in the Aggie coffin in the fifth, adding three runs in the final inning to close out an early afternoon for A&M.
Let’s Hear a Hullabaloo …for etching your place in the record books. Freshman Tori Vidales accounted for the lone Aggie hit of the day, a dinger over the left field wall, her seventeenth of her first collegiate season. With her latest homer, Vidales moved into a tie for seventh place in the Aggie single season home run records and is only one out of a tie for fourth. Gig ‘em, Tori!
Coach Evans on Vidales: “She was aggressive up there. [Lauren] Haeger wasn’t throwing it anywhere near where Tori wanted but she still got all of the ball. Kudos to Tori, she is that good that she can take a pitch that isn’t down the middle and hit it out of the park. She just did a great job on that pitch. She’s good enough to hit balls that are out of the strike zone but if she’s looking for it, she canhitit250 feet. You have to respect a hitter like her.”
Up Next
The Aggies return home, facing their final Lone Star State foe Texas State on Wednesday with the first pitch coming at 6:35 p.m. Follow along with live stats at 12thMan.com and @AggieSoftball on Twitter for all the hits, pitches and everything in between during the 2015 softball season.