SPORTS
- Inside the Huddle
- Team splits Rumble points Holli Welch
- Osprey Rookies Holli Welch
Inside the Huddle
 Matt Coleman Features Editor |
 Ryan Clarke Freshman, Communications |
 Scott Dye Junior, Communications |
 Patty McJazzfingers Ribbon Dancer Extraordinaire |
| Question 1: If UNF could add a sports team other than football what would it be? | |||
| Goose juggling. | They should bring a lacrosse team to UNF. | Football or nothing at all. | Only the most demanding and expressive sport known to man - ribbon dancing of course. |
| Question 2: Will the Jacksonville Suns have what it takes this season? | |||
| A rival team in their division is named the Montgomery Biscuits. I think the Suns will do fine. | It is too close to call, ask me in June. | Too early to tell, but Thursday Throwdown was a good time. | Sure, but they lack the sequins and glitter that help to grab my attention. |
| Question 3: Do you think Zach Johnson is a one-hit wonder? | |||
| I hope, for his sake, he has more staying power than Chumbawamba. | With more than 50 tournaments a year, he'll hit again sometime. | If he is, that's not a bad one hit. | Unfortunately, yes. But he'd probably make a great ribbon dancer. |
| Question 4: Do you think Michael Phelps has super powers? What would it be? | |||
| He swims like a fish, but his DUI arrest says he can't drink like one. | He has gills. | I don't know, breathe under water? | The use of echo location to disorient his opponents. |
Team splits Rumble points
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Top: Senior pitcher Kelli Rutenbar touches home plate after hitting a home run against the Dolphins April 6. Bottom: Junior first baseman Heather Hyde helps the Ospreys defensively to win a 6-0 shutout. |
The University of North Florida softball team (26-17, 4-4 Atlantic Sun Conference) won
6-0 in the series opener against Jacksonville University April 6, before losing the second
game 4-3.
The win marked UNF's eighth victory against the JU Dolphins (14-31, 3-5 A-Sun) for the 2006-2007 year, and the winning edge for the Ospreys in the Jacksonville River City Rumble.
"These games are part of our 18 conference games, which are the ones that really count for us," head coach Sonya Wilmoth said. "This is also for a lot of pride in the Jacksonville
community."
Freshman pitcher Devyn Findley led the Ospreys on the mound during both games, allowing one hit in the first game and three in the second.
Offensively, senior second baseman Gwen Williams drove
in three runs against the Dolphins, including a home run to left field in the beginning of the second game.
The home run marked Williams' fourth of the season.
Junior first baseman Heather Hyde hit a single during the fifth inning.
The Ospreys recorded four
of the first game's six runs during the fifth and sixth innings.
Senior pitcher Kelli Rutenbar hit a home run, and freshman third baseman Elizabeth Howell recorded two hits.
Dolphins' catcher Ashley Mora led JU, after recording her first home run of the season against the Ospreys in the
bottom of sixth inning in the nightcap.
The home run opened the 3-3 tie and advanced JU to its
4-3 win.
North Florida will take on Jacksonville Universsity three more times for the River City Rumble. The baseball, track and field and golf teams compete
in May.
The Ospreys face off against A-Sun foe Gardner-Webb University at 4 p.m. April 13.
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Osprey Rookies
For the first time in 20 years, freshmen are starting for the University of North Florida baseball team in conference games
and playing the entire time against top foes, head coach Dusty
Rhodes said.
"They are just as much a part of the team as anyone else,"
Rhodes said. "Their amount of playing time and team
statistics has proved just that."
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