Gator Country

Sophomore second baseman Casey Turgeon was named a first-team All-American by Perfect Game after compiling 65 hits and 30 RBI last season. / Gator Country photo by Saj Guevara

It certainly wasn’t supposed to end the way it did.

Not after starting the season ranked No. 1 in the nation.

Not after returning to Omaha for a third consecutive season, unfazed by the hoopla and craze which surrounds the eight teams lucky enough to make college baseball’s most sacred pilgrimage.

But in June of 2012, again, there the Gators were. A team stacked to the brim, possessors of arguably the nation’s most enviable collection of talent, and on their way home without anything to show for their season.

Just two short weeks earlier, varying members of the game’s highest consortium ran their money-stained fingers up and down the Florida roster all the way from Secaucus, N.J.

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