{"id":343389,"date":"2025-10-30T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343389\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:13:09","slug":"florida-baseball-on-deck-at-jacksonville-wruf-98-1-fm-850-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343389\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Baseball on Deck at Jacksonville &#8211; WRUF 98.1 FM | 850 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gators Baseball will play its first exhibition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wruf.com\/headlines\/2025\/10\/29\/gators-wrap-week-four-of-fall-scrimmages-before-jacksonville-exhibition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fall season<\/a> during the scary hours of Halloween against the host Jacksonville University Dolphins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First pitch will take place at Vystar Ballpark at 6:30 p.m. Friday and the gates will open to the park at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/ju-v-uf-baseball-jacksonville-florida-10-31-2025\/event\/2200633C07093ED9?utm_medium=affiliate&amp;irgwc=1&amp;clickid=1hu36oWhExycWtD3yrwbEUGEUkp3eWXm0XVE0g0&amp;camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_4241810&amp;impradid=4241810&amp;REFERRAL_ID=tmfeedbuyat4241810&amp;wt.mc_id=aff_BUYAT_4241810&amp;utm_source=4241810-Simpleview&amp;impradname=Simpleview&amp;ircid=4272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on sale now.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the first time the Gators will see action on the field since they were eliminated from the NCAA Regional final against the East Carolina Pirates\u00a0 in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wruf.com\/headlines\/2025\/10\/22\/florida-baseball-coach-kevin-osullivan-takes-leave-of-absence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin O\u2019Sullivan<\/a> will not be in the Gators\u2019 dugout due to taking a leave of absence for personal matters. Assistant coach Chuck Jeroloman is leading the program on an interim basis.<\/p>\n<p>In their first season without superstar Jac Caglianone, the Gators finished last year 39-22 while suffering multiple injuries throughout the season, including ones to shortstop Colby Shelton, starting pitcher Liam Peterson, infielder Cade Kurland, catcher Luke Heyman, pitcher Pierce Coppola, pitcher Frank Menendez and outfielder Kyle Jones.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton led the team in batting average with .377 and Bobby Boser led the team in hits with 80.\u00a0 Peterson, even with the injuries, led the team in wins with 8.<\/p>\n<p> Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wruf.com\/headlines\/category\/college-baseball\/\" rel=\"category tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College Baseball<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wruf.com\/headlines\/category\/gators-generic\/\" rel=\"category tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gator Sports<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wruf.com\/headlines\/category\/gator-baseball\/\" rel=\"category tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gators Baseball<\/a>    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gators Baseball will play its first exhibition of the fall season during the scary hours of Halloween against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,169098,168422,169099,169100,3188,723,168427,7310,169101,168428,169102,169103,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-343389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bobby-boser","10":"tag-cade-kurland","11":"tag-chuck-jeroloman","12":"tag-colby-shelton","13":"tag-fl","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-gators-baseball","16":"tag-jacksonville","17":"tag-kevin-o-sullivan","18":"tag-kyle-jones","19":"tag-liam-peterson","20":"tag-luke-heyman","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}