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Florida Gators News: Softball gathers honors, Trey Dean draft prep, more

By Benjamin Henderson

Jun 5, 2022; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; Florida Gators pitcher Elizabeth Hightower (22) throws a pitch during the fourth inning of the NCAA Women's College World Series game against the UCLA Bruins at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium. UCLA won 8-0. Mandatory Credit: Brett Rojo-USA TODAY Sports
Jun 5, 2022; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA; Florida Gators pitcher Elizabeth Hightower (22) throws a pitch during the fourth inning of the NCAA Women's College World Series game against the UCLA Bruins at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium. UCLA won 8-0. Mandatory Credit: Brett Rojo-USA TODAY Sports /
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The Florida Gators have been a wrecking ball this season in softball, winning eight of their ten games via the mercy rule.

The third ranked Gators picked up two honors from the SEC as Skylar Wallace was named Co-Player of the Week and Elizabeth Hightower was named Co-Pitcher of the Week.

Wallace is currently 5th in the nation with staggering on-base percentage of .694. She is 12-22 hitting with 12 walks and one hit by pitch. She already has 14 RBIs and three home runs.

Hightower had to enter in twice for Florida during the T-Mobile Tournament to clean up a mess, and she has yet to allow an earned run in 20.1 innings of work. She has struck out 23 hitters while only walking six.

Florida Gators News: Trey Dean draft prep

In preparation of the upcoming NFL draft, Trey Dean posted a video of his progress in the bench press. The safety was able to lift 225 pounds 26 times.

It makes sense for Dean to showcase his strength, physicality was never in question for him. The concern of course for Dean was never his physicality though, it was is ability to read plays and be in position.

But coming off MVP honors at the Shrine Bowl, Dean will probably move up NFL draft boards if he can duplicate or improve upon this feat at the combine.

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It’s about time, sort of

Not specific to the Florida Gators, but college football leaders are in discussions of ways to reduce the number of plays in a game by keeping the clock moving more often.

The two most notable proposals included keeping the clock running after a first down, which would mimic the NFL, and to keep the clock running after an incompletion, which would mimic the XFL.

In theory, this would cut down on games being four hours long. Anything that can keep games consistently under three and a half hours would be a welcome change.

But if the same number of commercials are going to be run, this might not have the impact on the fan experience that we hope for.

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