FSU sports information:

The 18th-ranked Florida State softball team (26-9) completed an 8-0 run-rule victory over McNeese (23-15) in five innings on Wednesday night at JoAnne Graf Field. The Seminoles have won eight consecutive game while run-ruling opponents in six of those games.

FSU wasted no time as leadoff hitter Kaley Mudge hit a tough single to the third baseman before a wild pitch allowed her to fly past second and stand 60 feet away from home plate. Kalei Harding smacked a fly ball into deep center field to allow Mudge to score the game's first run.

The lineup kept rolling into the second as Isa Torres unleashed a fiery double through left for her 40th hit of the season. Kennedy Harp's single and a five pitch walk for Devyn Flaherty loaded the bases with one out.

Entering the batter's box was Mudge who crushed a two-run double into center before Jaysoni Beachum hit a sacrifice fly to score Flaherty. Harding answered the call to send Mudge home again as she belted the first pitch over the wall in center field for a two-run homer for a 6-0 score after two innings.

Mudge completed her incredible night with a second double to leadoff the fourth inning. This marked her second three-hit game of the season joining her three-hit performance on St. Patrick's Day game against Duke. Autumn Belviy replaced her as pinch runner and ran home after a Jaysoni Beachum single pushed the lead to seven.

The Seminoles scored the elusive eighth run of the game off Angelee Bueno's first career RBI into left center to score Annie Potter. This marks the Seminoles eighth consecutive game with eight or more runs, tying the school record.

Ashtyn Danley made her 14th start in the circle this season and pitched through the entirety as she struck out six batters, conceded only one extra base hit and didn't give up any runs in the shutout. She earned her seventh win of the season and pitched her second career complete game.

Florida State will head to Louisville for a three-game weekend series with first pitch set for 6 p.m. on Friday (live stream on ACC Network Extra).

Seminole fans are invited to hear Mike Norvell talk on Friday evening, April 19, the evening before the Seminole Showcase on Saturay about the progress made this spring and what to look for on Saturday.

The event will feature several current players, as well as former players and coaches. Fans will enjoy light hors d'oevres cash bar and a silent auction at the Moon from 5-7 pm, which will be filled with many autographed items, as well as a variety of iitems from the community.

If you would like to know more about sponsorships, or donating a silent auction item -- incluing any unused tickets -- contact Jerry Kutz at jkutz@theosceola.com

Visit MoonEvents.com to puchase tickets.

Norvell to be guest speaker at Seminole Showcase Preview

If you are thinking of coming to the spring game, now you have another reason with this Friday evening affair at the Moon. We've designed it to be fun, informative, and as a benefit for the Battle's End, the NIL Collective that works with FSU's football players.
If you aren't planning to come, think again. There's questions at a variety of positions and this Friday event will help prepare you for what you see at Saturday's Seminole Showdown.
I chose to organize this event with The Battle's End because of the important role they play in FSU's success. NIL is a factor in attracting and retaining players at every school, so it's important that the collective that works with FSU's student-athletes is well funded.


Save the Weekend; fun, informative benefit

The Florida State baseball team seeks win No. 24, which would surpass the 2023 win total, on Wednesday at 5 p.m. against Bethune-Cookman (ACC Network Extra). We've had a good amount of rain since early this morning in Tallahassee but the skies look party cloudy and hopefully we can get this game in.

Not sure who FSU could start but expect a full bullpen game. It's plausible every arm aside from Brady Louck, who went 3.2 innings (51 pitches) and Andrew Armstrong (2.1 innings, 38 pitches) on Tuesday, are available tonight. Carson Dorsey also tossed two innings (39 pitches) last night.

FSU is 7-0 in midweek games (Tues/Wed) this season and 17-1 at home in 2024.

Season stats can be viewed here.

Of note, the FSU-UF game next Tuesday (April 9) is sold out. Student tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

We'll have starting lineups and notes in the thread.

I like the Athletic. I find it informative and thought provoking.
A recent story asked Who is your Mt. Rushmore of College Football?
Interesting.
Then Ari Wasserman and david Ubben each offered their FOUR coaches.
Ari Wasserman framed the conversation this way: "My approach to the Mount Rushmore prompt was to create a list that I personally identify with. To me, just picking the coaches who won the most games or had the best winning percentage is boring. Anyone can do that. But who were the people that I’ve admired or helped shaped the reason the sport has become my life?
"Like with most things I write, there will be some backlash, and I’m fully prepared for it. Just know that I went into this with the mission of personalizing it and I’d encourage you all to do it that way, too."
I won't tell you who theirs were just yet, until after you share who your Top 4 college football coaches of ALL TIME are.

Who are the people you've admired, or helped shape the game, or the reason sport has become your life?






Like with most things I write, there will be some backlash, and I’m fully prepared for it. Just know that I went into this with the mission of personalizing it and I’d encourage you all to do it that way, too.

My approach to the Mount Rushmore prompt was to create a list that I personally identify with. To me, just picking the coaches who won the most games or had the best winning percentage is boring. Anyone can do that. But who were the people that I’ve admired or helped shaped the reason the sport has become my life?


Like with most things I write, there will be some backlash, and I’m fully prepared for it. Just know that I went into this with the mission of personalizing it and I’d encourage you all to do it that way, too.

Not official yet but it would seem De'Ante Green is about to be the first FSU men's basketball departure of the offseason.

FSU 67 UNC 92 The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly


The Good

FSU finishes the season with a winning record at 17-16. Compared to last season's 9-23 disaster, this was a big improvement.

Ten steals. FSU was number one in the ACC in that category all season long. They continued their dominance in that stat in today's game.

Jamir Watkins with his 19th consecutive game scoring in double figures with 12 points. Watkins had to work for it however shooting 3-11 but was again sharp at the line, 6-7.

Primo Spears with his 16th game this season in double digits scoring a team high 17 on 8 of 14 shooting.

Jalen Warley with 10 points recording his third straight game in double figures. It was the first time in his career with that many consecutive games with ten or more points.

Overall FSU shot well from the charity stripe, 13-18 (72%).


The Bad

FSU's season ends as there is no chance to play in any kind of post season tournament (you can forget about the CBI as FSU will never play in that thing).

UNC obviously wanted to take Florida State out of the game early. For the first 12 minutes, the 'Noles were hanging with the Tar Heels trailing by just two, 20-18. The final eight minutes of the half were a disaster. UNC outplayed and outhustled the Seminoles owning all the major stats in the game. The Heels simply played better. A lot better coming at the Seminoles hard all game long. FSU was unable to adjust and handle the pressure from UNC.

UNC coming into the game was 21-0 in the quarterfinals when ranked as the number one seed. Make that 22-0. UNC makes its 54th appearance in the semis of the ACCT. By contrast FSU has made it to the semis 7 times.

Part of FSU's game plan was to minimize UNC's rebounding and get to the FT line. Neither really happened.

FSU's defense was blistered once again with UNC shooting 52% from the floor and 42% from behind the arc. Those have been consistent problems all season long.

At the 8 minute mark of the first half, the score was 20-18. Four minutes later UNC was up 32-23. Four minutes later aka halftime, the Heels led 46-30. And it would have been worse had Spears not made a three at the buzzer. The beat down just kept getting more and more progressive (not to be confused with a certain insurance company).

When you knew it was over was with 14:41 remaining in the game and the 'Noles down 62-41. You knew there was no chance of a comeback from that. That FSU was able to score more than 60 was accomplishment.

Hey, let's talk about something that never gets talked about. Officiating. OMG!!! These guy were turrible (to quote a certain retired NBA forward) in the first half. Case in point Armando Bacot was clearly holding Taylor Bol Bowen and even dragging him to the floor. But Bol Bowen was called for the foul? It was not the only instance where he was holding but not called for the foul. I counted at least three times. All that did was allow Bacot to do whatever he wanted because he knew he was not going to get the whistle. For all his physicality in this game, he picked up just one foul. Yeah, right.

Or Baba Miller dribbling the ball at the time line when Elliot Cadeau made a play on the ball. Cadeau clearly initiated contact and yet somehow Miller was whistled for the foul. Go figure.

Jaylen Gainey whose injury a couple of years ago just never allowed him to regain his form he had at Brown.


The Ugly

Rebounding. Recall the game earlier this season when FSU was beaten on the boards by 22? Hamilton even commented he had never seen anything like it. Today FSU set a new standard for ugly on the backboards as UNC collected 48 rebounds to FSU's 22. Yup, North Carolina had 26 more rebounds than the Seminoles. I do not care how much better the talent might be, there is no reason to have that kind of disparity in going after the ball. On one possession in the game, UNC kept missing shots but seemingly getting perpetual second chances because the 'Noles could not grab the ball. UNC on that one possession collected five, yes count 'em, five offensive rebounds.

Need I mention three point shooting again? Ok, If you really want to know. 4-16. 25%.

The matador defense where numerous times the North Carolina ball carrier just dribbled at blazing speed into the lane untouched and laid the ball in. Oddly enough it was the UNC player always going to his left. But at any rate, the shots were completely uncontested. Of course when you have refs that possibly were going to whistle you up for breathing on the ball carrier, that could explain the extraordinarily porous defense.


Up Next

For FSU, the offseason. From the Sweet 16 in 2021 to the 'Noles sitting at home again for the third straight year. Hamilton will turn 76 in August. He says he is as energized as ever and will be back for next season. He has one year left on his contract though that I am guessing recruits are aware of. He likely will have to hit the portal again to bring in players to replace the ones who will be moving on. I am not even going guess how many what with players coming and going off every roster in the country. Hamilton mentioned on one of his his talk shows that he was told the number of players in the portal in April could be as many as 4,000. Hamilton had a sizeable turnover after last season. It could be again.

FSU sports information:

Florida State’s Mirabel Ting, who began play in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur on Wednesday, was named the ACC Co-Player of the Month of March by the Atlantic Coast Conference Office. The Seminole sophomore won the individual championship of the Valspar Augusta Invitational, finished sixth at the Florida State Match Up, and totaled a 2-1 record at the Old Barnwell Match Up Derby in March.

It’s the first time Ting has earned ACC Golfer of the Month award in just her first semester playing for the Seminoles.

Ting was a total of 12 strokes under par in the Valspar (-7) and the Match Up (-5) and defeated both Andie Smith of Duke (3&1) and Izzy Pellot of Mississippi State (2Up) at the Old Barnwell Derby as she enjoyed a spectacular month of March. She led the Seminoles to a pair of top-five team finishes – second at the Match Up and fifth at the Valspar.

Ting has earned four consecutive top-seven finishes in her first four events as a Seminole – first at the Valspar, tied for sixth at the Match Up and seventh place finishes at the spring season-opening Guadalajara Country Club Collegiate Invitational and the Seventh Annual Moon Invitational. She is a total of 10 strokes under par, was Florida State’s leader at the Moon and Valspar Invitationals, and has finished among the Seminoles’ top two finishers in each of her first four events at Florida State.

“It has been a good spring for Mirabel and all of our girls,” said Seminole Head Coach Amy Bond from the Champions Retreat at Augusta where she is supporting Florida State’s three players in the ANWA (Ting, Charlotte Heath, and Lottie Woad). “A big congratulations to Mirabel on being named the ACC Co-Golfer of the Month of March. She played a lot of really good golf to be considered for the award, and we are happy that her hard work is paying off this season.”

Ting is ranked second on the team with a 71.17 stroke average in 12 rounds during four events this season. She has totaled 10 of 12 rounds scored at par or better and 11 of 12 rounds scored at 75 or better in the first four matches of her Florida State career. She tied her career-best score with a 67 in the third round of the Valspar – the fourth time in her career she has scored a 67.

Ting shared the ACC Player of the Month honor with Lauren Beaudreau of Notre Dame.

Florida State’s next team event comes at the ACC Championships (April 18-21) at the Porter’s Neck County Club on Wilmington, N.C. The Seminoles have finished as the runners-up in the ACC Championship in five of the last six years it has been played.

FSU sports information:

Sophomore Luke Clanton has been named the ACC Golfer of the Month after his two outstanding tournament victories in March.

The native of Hialeah, Fla., vaulted up to No. 4 among the Clippd Collegiate Golfer rankings after winning both the Seminole Intercollegiate and the Valspar Collegiate Invitational. Clanton is FSU’s current leader in scoring average for the 2023-24 academic year at 69.67.

At the Seminole Intercollegiate on March 11-12, he came through in the clutch by dropping a birdie putt on his final hole to win the tournament at 11-under (70-65-70), defeating teammate Tyler Weaver by one stroke. At the Valspar Collegiate Invitational held at Floridian Golf Club in Palm City, he took down a loaded field and won by five strokes at 14-under (65-68-66).

Since the start of the spring season, Clanton has recorded a round in the 60s in nine of his 15 rounds played. His win at the Valspar Collegiate Invitational earned him an exemption to the 2025 Valspar Championship on the PGA TOUR.

Over his last seven tournaments played, Clanton has earned six Top 10 finishes. He is following up a freshman season last year where he won the NCAA Morgan Hill Golf Regional and earned All-America honors.

The Seminoles, now sixth in the nation, finish their regular season this Monday and Tuesday as they head to the Lewis Chitengwa Memorial Tournament in Charlottesville, Va.

DJ Lundy says he's in the best shape of his life and looks the part. Blake Nichelson and Justin Cryer have taken big leaps entering Year 2.

FSU's linebacker unit entered spring as a question mark but Mike Norvell says it has been a pleasant surprise through six spring practices.

Azareye’h Thomas played early and often in his Florida State career. Those experiences are building toward what could be an impactful year 3.

Thomas has been one of the more impressive defensive players on the field when FSU opened spring practices. Thomas is an option to offer up FSU’s next lock-down corner with teammates like Renardo Green and Jarrian Jones preparing for the NFL, and Thomas showed it with multiple pass break-ups in 7-on-7 drills as well as 11-on-11 segments in his first practice.

“Going into year three, I feel confident as ever,” Thomas said. “Stronger, faster and smarter. Really just trying to continue to work on the mental aspect of my game, trying to learn the defense a little more. I'm trying to learn the ins and outs of things. I feel like the physical part is the easy part. Anybody can bulk up.”

(updates on Vernell Brown, Myron Charles, Jakaleb Faulk, Kaiden Hall, Josh Holland, Kaiden Prothro, Winston Watkins Jr.)

The weekend was busy across the country despite it being a holiday and so a second Recruiting Rumor Mill was needed this week. Here’s the latest from Rivals national recruiting director Adam Gorney:

Interesting story here:

Thoughts? I mean, it was a quality loss, that should count for something, right? In the world of common sense, one would think we would jump them, but that does not seem to be the world in which we live anymore. I am actually picking yes.

FSU sports information:

The No. 18 Florida State softball team (25-9, 7-2) defeated the McNeese Cowgirls (23-14, 8-1) 12-0 in five innings in a midweek matchup at JoAnne Graf Field. FSU has won seven straight and also ended McNeese's eight-game winning streak. It was the first time McNeese had been run-ruled in five innings all season after playing the likes of Oklahoma, LSU and Baylor.

The Seminole offense got off to another hot start as Kaley Mudge hit a triple into deep right field and was brought home on a sacrifice fly by Kalei Harding to give the Noles a 1-0 lead after the first inning.

After a scoreless second inning, Devyn Flaherty reached on a single and Kalei Harding walked to put two runners on base for Michaela Edenfield with two outs. Edenfield homered into deep-right, getting two RBI's and giving the Noles a four-run lead. Their dominance continued next inning with Kennedy Harp, who homered into left field to give the Seminoles another run to put them up 5-0.

Keeping the bats hot at the bottom of the fourth, Harding hit a ground ball that bounced off the second baseman's glove to bring two runs across. With runners on the corners, the Noles put on a double steal to add another run to make it 8-0. Edenfield continued her hot night with a double down the right field line to score Harding to extend the Noles lead. Jahni Kerr then hit her fifth home run of the season to blow the game completely open to give the Noles a 12-0 lead after four. It is the 10th time this season this season that FSU has scored 10 or more runs, and it is also the seventh consecutive game that FSU has scored eight or more runs which is the longest streak since the 2019 season.

Makenna Reid, who is now 9-1, had a very impressive game with two strikeouts in 4.1 innings allowing four hits but not allowing a single run. Mimi Gooden came on in the fifth and recorded the final two outs.

FSU will conclude their series with McNeese on Wednesday at 8 p.m. on the ACC Network.

The FSU football team returned to practice Tuesday night after its first scrimmage last week. It was a strong showing for the defense anchored by Darrell Jackson and Azareye'h Thomas but the offense created some nice yards-after-catch plays with its improved speed.

Here's the Osceola practice report from spring practice No. 6 for the Seminoles:

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Florida State (22-4) hosts Jacksonville University (13-14) for its second matchup of the season. The Seminoles took Game 1 of the season series in Jacksonville 7-4 back on February 20th. The game will begin at 6:00pm and will be televised on ACC Network Extra.

Brady Louck (0-0) will make his second start of the season against the Dolphins. He has thrown 7 innings for Florida State this year and has a 2.57 ERA in five total appearances. He will be on the mound against Jacksonville's Blake Barquin (0-2) who has an 8.31 ERA in 26 innings pitched.

We will update the thread as often as possible as spring football practice is occurring at the same time.

Below are the starting lineups for tonight:

Four-star CB prospect Dorian Barney will be at FSU's practice on Tuesday afternoon.

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Story from a few hours ago, Devin Carter made his first visit to Florida State since decommitting in January.

https://floridastate.rivals.com/new...rter-on-why-he-backed-off-pledge-recaps-visit

FSU hosted several high-profile 2025 prospects at Tuesday's practice. The Osceola caught up with four-star prospects Lagonza Hayward, CJ Wiley, Tristan Lyles and Brock Schott their unofficial visits with FSU.

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Florida State coach Mike Norvell gives his reflections on a second watch of the scrimmage film from last week as well as thoughts on Jaylin Lucas, Jaden Jones, and DeMarco Ward.

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