WHAT HAPPENED: Mississippi State used a six-run eighth inning to pull away in a 13-6 win over Florida to sweep the Gators in Starkville.
 
It was a back-and-forth game through seven innings until the Bulldogs pulled away late.
 
Florida scored in the first inning but Mississippi State hit a pair of homers in the bottom half of the inning to take a 4-1 lead.
 
The Gators responded with a pair of runs in the second to cut the deficit to one, but MSU pushed it back to three with two runs in the third.
 
A two-run homer from Deacon Liput in the fourth inning cut the deficit to one run and Florida tied the game at 6-6 in the top of the sixth inning on Austin Langworthy's RBI single.
 
In the bottom of the sixth with the bases loaded, Rowdey Jordan grounded into a double play but it was enough to bring across the winning run.
 
UF starter Jackson Kowar suffered the loss, allowing seven runs on nine hits through 5.2 innings.
 
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Austin Langworthy – The sophomore went 5-for-10 (.500) at Mississippi State with two home runs and 4 RBI.

FROM THE COACH: Head coach Kevin O'Sullivan on today's game: "We hit a lot of balls hard this weekend, but at the end of the day I thought we were in a good frame of mind. We talked about refocusing and trying to get back on the winning track again. I thought we had some good at bats in the first inning, we had the bases loaded there and would've liked to get another hit and maybe open it up a little bit. We didn't get off to a good start on the mound, Mangum hits the first pitch out for a home run.
 
"It was just one of those days, one of those weekends. I'm going to take some time to reflect back on the weekend. We just got beat in every phase. We talked about it this week after we tied for the SEC Championship last Saturday that we needed to keep our edge. Obviously this weekend we weren't able to do that. It was a weird weekend altogether, Brady has to sit because of the hamstring, Tommy Mace goes 6.1 scoreless and has a great start but then our bullpen falters which it hasn't done all year long.
 
"Obviously you want to be playing your best baseball at the end of the year. We just don't have the ability to turn it on or turn it off when we want to. We'll try to draw from this and get back on track in the SEC Tournament and go from there."
 
STANDOUT STAT: 41 – Florida's 41 regular-season wins are tied for the second-most in program history. Only the 2016 team had more wins in the regular season (44).

UP NEXT: Florida will head to Hoover, Ala., for the 2018 Southeastern Conference Tournament. As the No. 1 seed, the Gators will open play on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.