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.
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.
38th of his career‼️ @GavinGrahovac pic.twitter.com/359SiFZVa4
— Texas A&M Baseball (@AggieBaseball) April 24, 2026
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.
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.
Off the bat of Bear, it is GONE💥 @bearharrison32 pic.twitter.com/Ij6J6dzdFL
— Texas A&M Baseball (@AggieBaseball) April 25, 2026
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.
His 12th home run in his last 15 games 😤 @GavinGrahovac pic.twitter.com/yo5ChkA2Aj
— Texas A&M Baseball (@AggieBaseball) April 25, 2026
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.
Rumor has it, that landed back in TX 🚀 @JorianWilson12 pic.twitter.com/w3S7SUV7U7