For the third straight weekend, Texas A&M baseball made history. This time, the Aggies (33-8, 14-6) knocked off the Gators in Gainesville, Fla., to secure their first ever SEC series win in the Swamp and the second in twenty years. The Maroon and White outscored Florida 13-5 over the final two games of the three-game set while using excellent bullpen outings from the usual suspects of Gavin Lyons, Ethan Darden, and Clayton Freshcorn. Texas A&M collected its fifth consecutive conference series win and put
itself in great position to contend for the SEC title.
GAME 1: #21 Florida 9, #7 A&M 2
No. 7 Texas A&M’s offense was held in check as the 21st-ranked Gators knocked off the Maroon and White 9-2 to open the series Friday at Condron Family Ballpark in Gainesville, Fla. Florida starter Aidan King dazzled for eight innings, stifled the red-hot Aggies (31-8, 12-6), and snapped the visitors’ six game win streak and seven-game conference win streak.
Florida (29-14, 11-8) scored first, getting a two-out run in the opening inning with two singles and a hit batter. A&M countered in the third, as Bear Harrison led off the frame with a single. Gavin Grahovac cashed in, sending a two-run homer over the left-field fence and, in turn, gave the Aggies the 2-1 lead.
That lead didn’t last long, as the Gators tallied three doubles in the bottom half to retake a 3-2 lead and would never give it up.
While the Aggie bats were seeing little success against King, the A&M arms stepped up. Grant Cunningham entered in the fourth with runners on the corners and two outs. Taking over from Shane Sdao (3-3), the senior snuffed the threat. He kept the game where it was, into the sixth. A Florida leadoff solo shot doubled the lead to 4-2 – Cunningham got the next two Gators on strikeouts, ending his two-inning outing.
An RBI single in the seventh pushed the Gator advantage to 5-2, and the Aggies failed to respond. The bats went ice cold, as King retired the final 13 A&M hitters he faced across his eight-inning performance. The sophomore from Jacksonville, Fla., picked up his seventh win of the year and lowered his season ERA to 1.78, making a very strong case for the SEC Pitcher of the Year award.
Two Aggie arms made their SEC debuts in the eighth, as freshman Luke Billings and junior Hunter Bond took the bump. Two hit batters, a walk, an error, and a double compounded for the duo, allowing Florida to break the game open with four runs in the inning.
The 9-2 score stood for the Gators, opening the three-game set with a win. As for A&M, they dropped to 4-9 all-time in Gainesville and 1-9 in 10 SEC contests in the Sunshine State.
GAME 2: #7 A&M 8, #21 Florida 4
Four homers from four different Aggies paced #7 Texas A&M (32-8, 13-6) to an 8-4 victory over #21 Florida in Gainesville, Fla., on Saturday afternoon. The win at Condron Family Ballpark tied the series and forced a game three rubber match on Sunday.
The Gators (29-15, 11-9) struck first on a solo shot that led off the second. Two Aggie runs in the third swung the lead to the visitors, one they wouldn’t give up. Bear Harrison knotted things with a solo blast before Chris Hacopian tallied his seventh double of the season that brought home Gavin Grahovac.
A&M showed off the power in the fourth and fifth, as Nico Partida teed off with his 12th longball of the year in the former. The freshman’s seventh homer in SEC play is the most by any freshman in the conference, and his 19 RBI rank second among first-year college players in the league. Grahovac punctuated his first career four-hit day with a two-run homer in A&M’s next turn to bat, growing his conference-leading RBI total to 32 and giving the Aggies a 5-1 advantage.
A leadoff solo shot started the fifth, but Aidan Sims worked around it to complete his five innings of work. The right-hander surrendered two solo homers and struck out seven. Six of those came in the first two frames. The junior snatched his eighth win of the year for his efforts.
Two of Jorian Wilson’s three hits came in the later stages of the game, providing insurance. He drove home Terrence Kiel II on a sixth-inning single. Two innings later in his next at-bat, the freshman clobbered a baseball 445 feet away from home plate, which landed out of the ballpark.
The A&M bullpen allowed two runs over their four innings of work, captained by Clayton Freshcorn’s 2.1 IP outing. The closer gave up a run in the ninth but completed the game to pick up his eighth save of the campaign.
Behind a 15-hit day, Texas A&M grabbed their first win in Gainesville in 770 days (a 10-6 victory on Saturday, March 16, 2024).
GAME 3: #7 A&M 5, #21 Florida 1
Jorian Wilson showed off every tool helping Texas A&M (33-8, 14-6) take the series finale over ranked Florida 5-1 at Condron Family Ballpark in Gainesville, Fla. The freshman’s efforts, combined with five dazzling innings from the bullpen, helped the Aggies to their fifth consecutive SEC series victory, and the first in Gainesville and second ever in program history.
Weston Moss earned the nod for Sunday’s contest, tossing four innings of one-run ball. He got three runs of support from his offense.
Gavin Grahovac started the scoring in the third, with a single to center. The junior later scored on Chris Hacopian’s sacrifice fly to double the A&M lead at 2-0.
In the next inning, Wilson used his speed, coming home on a wild pitch to make it 3-0 Aggies. Florida (29-16, 11-10) got that run back in the bottom half on a Caden McDonald RBI hit. The redshirt sophomore hit 5-for-12 (.417) with a double, homer and four RBI. That would be all the Gators would get in game three, as the A&M bullpen shutdown the Florida bats for the next five innings.
Gavin Lyons was the first reliever, entering in the fifth. He allowed just two baserunners (a hit and a walk) across his scoreless outing. He got help from his defense, inducing one of the three double plays A&M turned in the finale. Lyons collected his eighth win as the pitcher of record Sunday.
Wilson tallied his second homer in as many games in the sixth, sending another tape-measure shot out to center field, right of the batter’s eye. The freshman has a 1.224 OPS across 14 conference games, the most of all SEC first-year players.
Clayton Freshcorn took over for Lyons in the eighth and faced trouble. With runners in scoring position and one out, the junior got a fly ball to right field. Wilson nearly lost track of the ball, found it, and unleashed a cannon to home plate. The throw from the 6-4, 240-pound outfielder was on the money, ending the threat and inning with no damage.
Bear Harrison got in on the act, providing a mammoth solo shot in the ninth to add an insurance run for A&M at 5-1. In the bottom half, Freshcorn worked around a two-out single, getting the final Gator to strike out. His ninth save and second in as many appearances secured the game, series, and history for Texas A&M.
The 2026 Aggie baseball team becomes the second team in program history to win a road series at Florida, joining the 2006 squad. Both teams leaned on bullpen success to knock off the Gators in their home park. This year’s Aggie team also completed their fifth straight SEC series victory and have won 16 of their last 19 games. Since losing game two at home against current conference leader Georgia on March 22, Texas A&M has won 13 of the 15 SEC contests they’ve played.
Texas A&M finally gets a reprieve from the road games, playing their next five at the confines of Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park. A midweek game against Tarleton State (28-15, 8-4 WAC) on Tuesday, Apr. 28, is up next, while a three-game set against top-15 Auburn (30-13, 12-9 SEC) looms to open May. The homestand concludes with a Cinco de Mayo showdown versus SWAC opponent Prairie View A&M (8-33, 4-17), the final scheduled midweek of the 2026 campaign.
