WHAT HAPPENED:  Florida scored a season-high 16 runs on 17 hits in the opening game of a three-game series against the Winthrop Eagles Friday Night at McKethan Stadium.
 
Florida won 16-4 as 10 different players recorded a hit on the night. Austin Langworthy (2-for-5, HR, 4 RBI) and Nelson Maldonado (2-for-5, 3 RBI) combined for seven RBI and Brady McConnell extended his hitting streak to seven games with a 3-for-4 night.
 
The Eagles opened the in the first inning as Scout McFalls walked with the bases loaded to take a 1-0 lead. The Gators evened it on a solo homer to left field by Jud Fabian, the second of his career, in the second inning.
 
The Gators carried their momentum into the third. Langworthy connected on a two-run double that plated Maldonado and Kendrick Calilao, expanding Florida's lead 3-1.
 
Winthrop scored an unearned run by Hunter Lipscomb that closed the gap to one run for the Eagles, but the Gators responded with an unforgiving nine-run bottom half. The Gators brought 15 hitters to the plate in the frame and a three-run double by Maldonado blew the game open. A pair of RBI singles by Acton and Calilao gave the Gators a 12-2 lead.
 
The Gators finished up the scoring with a sac fly by Kirby McMullen and a two-run home run by Langworthy in the bottom half of the eighth inning.
 
Tyler Dyson allowed three runs (one earned) and two hits while striking out six over five innings. Dyson recorded his first win of the season. Langworthy also took the mound for the first time this year, pitching one inning and allowing no runs or hits while striking out one. 

FROM THE COACH: Head Coach Kevin O'Sullivan -- On the offensive performance --"It was good. It was good to see [Nelson Maldonado] get a good hit there with the bases loaded … I think we bunted the ball well tonight, too—those are things we needed to do." On the pitching -- "I thought Tyler [Dyson] did a nice job after the first inning, but with 30 pitches in the first, and then we got 90 plus after five … those are mistakes that we have to obviously clean up moving forward—obviously when we start SEC play. I thought it was good to get Nick Pogue out there again. I was down in the elliptical late this morning, and he was out there sweating, he was doing some work and doing some work on his own—and he is really starting to figure some things out."

STANDOUT STAT:
Solid hitting -- Brady McConnell has a seven-game hitting streak after Friday night. During the streak, he is 11-for-27 (.407) with six runs, two doubles and four RBI.
 
10th RBI -- Kendrick Calilao recorded his 10th RBI on Friday, which leads the team.
 
UP NEXT: Florida's Tommy Mace will take the mound Saturday afternoon against the Eagles at McKethan Stadium. First pitch is at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. The game will broadcast line on SEC Network+ and the Gator Sports Network.