Year: | 2003 |
Team: | Florida Gators |
Sport: | baseball |
Conference: | Southeastern Conference |
Short Conf: | SEC |
Record: | 37–21–1 |
Conf Record: | 13–16–1 |
Head Coach: | Pat McMahon (2nd year) |
Asst Coach1: | John Cohen (2nd year) Ross Jones (2nd year) |
Stadium: | Alfred A. McKethan Stadium |
Tourney: | Coral Gables Regional |
Tourney Result: | 3–2 |
The 2003 Florida Gators baseball team represented the University of Florida in the sport of baseball during the 2003 college baseball season. The Gators competed in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They played their home games at Alfred A. McKethan Stadium, on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The team was coached by Pat McMahon, who was in his second season at Florida.
! style="background:#FF4A00;color:white;"| Regular season|- valign="top" |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| February 7 ||||| McKethan Stadium ||15–5|Falkenbach (1–0)|Morrison (1–2)|None|2,420|1–0||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| February 8 ||Mercer||| McKethan Stadium ||22–2|Hoyman (1–0)|Bishop (1–1)|None|1,535|2–0||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| February 12 ||||| McKethan Stadium ||10-910|Roberson (1–0)|Holmen (0–1)|None|1,377|3–0||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| February 14 ||No. 14 Miami (FL)
Rivalry||| McKethan Stadium ||2–9|Touchet (1–0)|O'Day (0–1)|None|2,226|3–1||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| February 15 ||No. 14 Miami (FL)
Rivalry||| McKethan Stadium ||5–3|Roberson (2–0)|Bongiovanni (1–1)|None|3,594|4–1|–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| February 19 ||||| McKethan Stadium ||17–2|Pete (1–0)|Patrick (1–2)|None|1,392|5–1|–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| February 21 ||||| McKethan Stadium ||17–6|Falkenbach (2–0)|Smar (0–1)|None|1,327|6–1|–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| February 23 (1) ||Hofstra||| McKethan Stadium ||13–2|Hoyman (2–0)|Cosentino (0–1)|None|–|7–1|–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| February 23 (2) ||Hofstra||| McKethan Stadium ||28–6|Boss (1–0)|Taylor (0–1)|None|1,924|8–1|–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| February 25 ||||No. 23| McKethan Stadium ||13-1214|Potter (1–0)|Griffin (1–1)|None|1,267|9–1|–|-|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 1 ||||No. 23|| McKethan Stadium ||11–1||Potter (2–0)||Bitter (0–3)||None||1,428||10–1||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 2 ||Siena||No. 23|| McKethan Stadium ||5–4||O'Day (1–1)||Cabot (0–3)||None||1,016||11–1||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 5 ||||No. 16|| McKethan Stadium ||9–5||Ball (1–0)||Martin (2–2)||None||1,029||12–1||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| March 7 ||at No. 1
Rivalry||No. 16||Dick Howser Stadium
Tallahassee, FL||4–5||Lynch (4–0)||Pete (1–1)||Hodges (3)||3,652||12–2||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| March 8 ||at No. 1 Florida State
Rivalry||No. 16||Dick Howser Stadium||7–9||Davidson (1–0)||Ball (1–1)||Hodges (4)||4,028||12–3||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 9 ||No. 1 Florida State
Rivalry||No. 16|| McKethan Stadium ||9–8||Hoyman (3–0)||Cannon (0–1)||Sanabria (1)||2,859||13–3||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 11 ||||No. 16|| McKethan Stadium ||9–2||Ball (2–1)||Van Riper (0–1)||None||1,448||14–3||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 12 ||Pace||No. 16|| McKethan Stadium ||12–2||Madson (1–0)||Huff (0–1)||None||1,170||15–3||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| March 14 ||at No. 18 ||No. 16||Alex Box Stadium
Baton Rouge, LA||0–9||Wilson (4–2)||Falkenbach (2–1)||None||7,835||15–4||0–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| March 15 ||at No. 18 LSU||No. 16||Alex Box Stadium||2–3||Pettit (3–0)||Hoyman (3–1)||None||7,698||15–5||0–2|- align="center" bgcolor="F0E8E8"| March 16 ||at No. 18 LSU||No. 16||Alex Box Stadium||8–8||None||None||None||7,375||15–5–1||0–2–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 18 ||||No. 22|| McKethan Stadium ||24–8||Madson (2–0)||Oleksak (0–1)||None||1,247||16–5–1||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 19 ||||No. 22|| McKethan Stadium ||16–0||Ball (3–1)||Copello (1–1)||None||1,601||17–5–1||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| March 21 ||No. 18 ||No. 22|| McKethan Stadium ||3–8||Tankersley (4–0)||Sanabria (0–1)||None||1,913||17–6–1||0–3–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 22 ||No. 18 Alabama||No. 22|| McKethan Stadium ||6–1||Hoyman (4–1)||Carter (4–2)||None||2,864||18–6–1|1–3–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 23 ||No. 18 Alabama||No. 22|| McKethan Stadium ||6–5||O'Day (2–1)||Reed (1–1)||None||1,139||19–6–1|2–3–1|- align="center" bgcolor="F0E8E8"| March 26 ||Spain (national team) (exh.)||No. 18||McKethan Stadium||18–17||Roberson||Ventura||None||–||–||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 28 ||||No. 18|| McKethan Stadium ||5–3||Falkenbach (3–1)||Hochevar (4–2)||None||2,386||20–6–1|3–3–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 29 ||Tennessee||No. 18|| McKethan Stadium ||5–1||Hoyman (5–1)||Tharpe (3–2)||None||2,964||21–6–1|4–3–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| March 30 ||Tennessee||No. 18|| McKethan Stadium ||7–5||Falkenbach (4–1)||Hochevar (4–3)||None||1,059||22–6–1|5–3–1|-|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| April 2 ||Florida A&M||No. 13|| McKethan Stadium ||14–2||Rumble (1–0)||Nunez (1–1)||None||1,023||23–6–1||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| April 4 ||at ||No. 13||Hawkins Field
Nashville, TN|1–2||Sowers (1–4)||Falkenbach (4–2)||Lewis (3)||1,011||23–7–1||5–4–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| April 5 ||at Vanderbilt||No. 13||Hawkins Field||2–4||Ransom (3–0)||Hoyman (5–2)||Buschmann (3)||768||23–8–1||5–5–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| April 6 ||at Vanderbilt||No. 13||Hawkins Field||1–4||Mullins (2–4)||Madson (2–1)||Lewis (4)||353||23–9–1||5–6–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| April 9 ||||No. 23|| McKethan Stadium ||10–4||O'Day (3–1)||Lincoln (2–7)||None||1,395||24–9–1||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| April 11 ||||No. 23|| McKethan Stadium ||4–9||Bondurant (4–2)||O'Day (3–2)||None||2,085||24–10–1||5–7–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| April 12 ||South Carolina||No. 23|| McKethan Stadium ||2–10||Marchbanks (7–2)||Hoyman (5–3)||None||2,809|24–11–1||5–8–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| April 13 ||South Carolina||No. 23|| McKethan Stadium ||13–4||Pete (2–1)||Donald (0–1)||Boss (1)||1,952||25–11–1||6–8–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| April 15 |||||| McKethan Stadium ||9–1||Ball (4–1)||Worrall (1–1)||None||1,154||26–11–1||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| April 18 ||at ||||Foley Field
Athens, GA||4–5||Ruthven (3–4)||Boss (1–1)||Benefield (2)||1,538||26–12–1||6–9–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| April 19 ||at Georgia||||Foley Field||4–3||Hoyman (6–3)||Woods (1–4)||None||1,892||27–12–1||7–9–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| April 20 ||at Georgia||||Foley Field||8–4||Madson (3–1)||Westphal (3–2)||None||1,028||28–12–1||8–9–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| April 23 |||||| McKethan Stadium ||11–8||Pete (3–1)||Andres (1–2)||Falkenbach (1)||1,273||29–12–1||–|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| April 26 (1) ||No. 13 |||| McKethan Stadium ||13–5||Sanabria (1–1)||Maholm (6–2)||None||–||30–12–1||9–9–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| April 26 (2) ||No. 13 Mississippi State|||| McKethan Stadium ||5–6||Gant (2–1)||Boss (1–2)||Papelbon (6)||2,053||30–13–1||9–10–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| April 27 ||No. 13 Mississippi State|||| McKethan Stadium ||14–6||Hoyman (7–3)||Nicholas (4–2)||None||2,638||31–13–1||10–10–1|-|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| May 3 (1) ||at No. 18 ||||Plainsman Park
Auburn, AL||2–7||Hughey (5–4)||Ball (4–2)||None||–||31–14–1||10–11–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| May 3 (2) ||at No. 18 Auburn||||Plainsman Park||8–6||Boss (2–2)||Dennis (2–2)||Falkenbach (2)||3,489||32–14–1||11–11–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| May 4 ||at No. 18 Auburn||||Plainsman Park||3–4||Paxton (6–1)||Hoyman (7–4)||Speigner (1)||3,048||32–15–1||11–12–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| May 9 ||at ||||Swayze Field
Oxford, MS||0–2||Beam (7–1)||Boss (2–3)||Head (11)||2,422||32–16–1||11–13–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| May 10 ||at Ole Miss||||Swayze Field||3–8||Wright (4–2)||Hoyman (7–5)||Cupps (2)||2,539||32–17–1||11–14–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| May 11 ||at Ole Miss||||Swayze Field||2–4||Holliman (4–5)||Pete (3–2)||Head (12)||2,003||32–18–1||11–15–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| May 16 |||||| McKethan Stadium ||19–0||Hoyman (8–5)||Wade (3–7)||None||2,876||33–18–1||12–15–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| May 17 ||Kentucky|||| McKethan Stadium ||13–4||Pete (4–2)||Castle (6–5)||None||2,588||34–18–1||13–16–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| May 18 ||Kentucky|||| McKethan Stadium ||5–7||Gibson (3–3)||O'Day (3–3)||None||2,078||34–19–1||13–17–1|-|-! style="background:#FF4A00;color:white;"| Post-season|-|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"| May 30 ||||||Mark Light Stadium
Coral Gables, FL||3–4||Core (10–2)||Hoyman (8–6)||Pillsbury (5)||–||34–20–1||0–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| May 31 (1) ||vs. Bethune–Cookman||||Mark Light Stadium||8–6||Pete (5–2)||Rivera (6–5)||Falkenbach (3)||–||35–20–1||1–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"| May 31 (2) ||||||Mark Light Stadium||22–14||Potter (3–0)||Della Rocco (2–1)||None||5,251||36–20–1||2–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd"|June 1 (1)||at No. 13 Miami (FL)
Rivalry||||Mark Light Stadium||15–5||O'Day (4–3)||Camardese (9–1)||Pete (1)||–||37–20–1||3–1|- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd"|June 1 (2)||at No. 13 Miami (FL)
Rivalry||||Mark Light Stadium||10–13||Valdes-Fauli (3–0)||Boss (2–4)||None||3,494||37–21–1||3–2|-Rankings from Collegiate Baseball. All times Eastern. Retrieved from FloridaGators.com