2002 Florida Gators baseball team

American college baseball season March 2026 August 2023 2002 Florida Gators baseball Florida Gators script logo.svg 150 Southeastern Conference SEC 15 20 46–19 20–10 Pat McMahon (1st year) John Cohen (1st year)Ross Jones (1st year) Alfred A. McKethan Stadium Gainesville Regional 3–2 The 2002 Florida Gators baseball team represented the University of Florida in the sport of baseball during the 2002 college baseball season. The Gators competed in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). They played their home games at Alfred A. McKethan Stadium, on the university's Gainesville, Florida campus. The team was the first at Florida coached by Pat McMahon. Roster 2002 Florida Gators white white #0021A5 #FF4A00 h 47 David Bartelt RHP 6 1 192 R R Fr Odessa, FL 6 Stephen Barton 10px|Redshirt INF 5 9 176 L R Fr Miami, FL 32 Matt Bomeisl LHP 5 10 171 L L So Miami, FL 48 Tommy Boss RHP 6 2 210 R R Fr Dunnellon, FL 54 Daniel Brooks OF 5 11 202 R R Fr Tampa, FL 49 Kevin Coleman RHP 6 0 203 R R Sr Marietta, GA 7 Jeff Corsaletti y OF 5 11 186 L R Fr Port Charlotte, FL 42 Chris Craine C 6 0 194 R R Fr Gainesville, FL 28 Matt Cresap INF 5 11 160 R R Jr Tallahassee, FL 2 Aaron Davidson INF 5 9 168 R R Sr Atascadero, CA 15 Scot Drucker RHP 6 1 192 R R So Miami, FL 23 Connor Falkenbach RHP 5 10 174 R R Fr Parkland, FL 3 Matt Foster RHP 6 0 182 R R Jr Sarasota, FL 22 Mario Garza C 5 11 202 L R Jr Melbourne, FL 34 Jamie Goldfarb LHP 5 11 175 R L Jr Merritt Island, FL 9 Matt Goss OF 5 9 183 L L Sr Bartow, FL 18 Ben Harrison OF 6 3 203 R R So Key West, FL 21 Alex Hart RHP 6 5 212 R R Jr Marion, PA 45 Ben Hedgecock RHP 6 4 202 R R Jr Tampa, FL 4 Bobby Hicks OF 6 0 183 L R Jr Keystone Heights, FL 10 Ryan Kennedy LHP 5 11 175 R L Fr Bradenton, FL 17 Mark Kiger y INF 5 11 177 R R Sr La Jolla, CA 16 David Klebonis OF 5 11 201 R R Sr Orlando, FL 5 Matt Maley INF 6 1 172 L R So Miami, FL 33 Joe Mercadante C 5 11 190 R R Jr Gainesville, FL 31 Mike Mlotkowski RHP 6 5 212 R R So Fairfax Station, VA 24 Pat Osborn INF 6 3 207 R R Jr Bakersfield, CA 27 Mike Pete LHP 5 10 172 L L Fr Brandon, FL 25 Tom Potter LHP 6 1 184 L L So Naples, FL 29 Keith Ramsey y LHP 6 0 174 L L Sr Los Angeles, CA 36 Jimmy Ramshaw LHP 6 4 200 L L Sr Canberra, AUS 13 Jake Riordan OF 6 0 172 R R Jr Gainesville, FL 55 Brian Rose C 6 1 234 R R Jr Miami, FL 20 Pat Rumble RHP 5 10 180 R R Fr Jacksonville, FL 40 Ryan Sadowski y RHP 6 3 190 R R Fr Davie, FL 43 Ryan Shealy y INF 6 5 245 R R Sr Fort Lauderdale, FL 12 C.J. Smith INF 6 3 181 R R Fr Tampa, FL 14 Aaron Sobieraj INF 6 1 188 R R Jr Clearwater, FL 44 Wes Swackhamer OF 6 1 207 L L Fr Basking Ridge, NJ 1 Jonathan Tucker INF 5 7 161 R R Fr El Sobrante, CA 8 Ben Zeskind INF 5 11 173 S R Fr Miami, FL http://floridagators.com/roster.aspx?roster=256 Pat McMahon John Cohen Ross Jones Schedule background:#0021A5;color:white; 2002 Florida Gators baseball game log (46–19) ! style="background:#FF4A00;color:white;"| Regular season (40–15) |- valign="top" y background:#FFF;color:#0021A5; February (11–0) Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 2 ||2002 Charleston Southern Buccaneers Charleston Southern||No. 21 | McKethan Stadium ||W 25–1 |Ramsey (1–0) |Viars (0–1) |None |1,904 |1–0||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 3 ||Charleston Southern||No. 21 | McKethan Stadium ||W 12–2 |Hart (1–0) |Holmen (0–1) |None |1,855 |2–0||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 6 ||2002 Mercer Bears Mercer||No. 21 | McKethan Stadium ||W 11–6 |Pete (1–0) |Morrison (0–2) |None |1,133 |3–0||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 8 ||at No. 7 2002 Miami Hurricanes Miami (FL)Rivalry||No. 21 |Mark Light StadiumCoral Gables, FL||W 12–9 |Drucker (1–0) |Vazquez (0–1) |None |3,513 |4–0||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 10 ||at No. 7 Miami (FL)Rivalry||No. 21 |Mark Light Stadium||W 6–2 |Hart (2–0) |Bengochea (0–2) |Ramshaw (1) |3,267 |5–0||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 13 ||2002 Florida A&M Rattlers Florida A&M||No. 14 | McKethan Stadium ||W 11–5 |Pete (2–0) |Sills (1–1) |None |1,070 |6–0||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 16 ||2002 Winthrop Eagles Winthrop||No. 14 | McKethan Stadium ||W 12–11 |Goldfarb (1–0) |Cheek (0–1) |None |1,831 |7–0||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 17 ||Winthrop||No. 14 | McKethan Stadium ||W 8–4 |Hart (3–0) |Reeves (1–1) |Coleman (1) |1,794 |8–0||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 20 ||2002 Savannah State Tigers Savannah State||No. 11 | McKethan Stadium ||W 14–0 |Ramshaw (1–0) |Castillo (4–2) |None |1,164 |9–0||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 24 ||2002 Siena Saints Siena||No. 11 | McKethan Stadium ||W 12–2 |Hart (4–0) |Knoff (0–2) |None |1,605 |10–0||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | February 27 ||Siena||No. 6 | McKethan Stadium ||W 31–3 |Bartelt (1–0) |Copskey (0–2) |None |780 |11–0||– |- y background:#FFF;color:#0021A5; March (13–6) Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | March 1 ||No. 2 2002 Florida State Seminoles Florida StateRivalry||No. 6|| McKethan Stadium ||L 4–5||Lynch (1–0)||Goldfarb (0–1)||Roman (7)||4,246||11–1||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | March 3 ||at No. 2 Florida StateRivalry||No. 6||Dick Howser StadiumTallahassee, FL||L 4–9||Lynch (2–0)||Coleman (0–1)||None||4,150||11–2||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | March 7 ||2002 Austin Peay Governors Austin Peay||No. 6|| McKethan Stadium ||L 8–12||Callaway (1–0)||Bartelt (1–1)||None||889||11–3||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 8 ||Austin Peay||No. 6|| McKethan Stadium ||W 17–2||Hart (5–0)||Pew (1–1)||None||1,033||12–3||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 9 ||Austin Peay||No. 6|| McKethan Stadium ||W 13–4||Ramsey (2–0)||Mathews (1–1)||None||1,702||13–3||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 12 ||2002 College of Charleston Cougars College of Charleston||No. 6|| McKethan Stadium ||W 20–3||Bartelt (2–1)||Wentzky (2–3)||None||1,075||14–3||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 13 ||College of Charleston||No. 6|| McKethan Stadium ||W 23–8||Potter (1–0)||McLeod (0–1)||None||1,144||15–3||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 15 ||No. 10 2002 Ole Miss Rebels Ole Miss||No. 6|| McKethan Stadium ||W 24–5||Ramshaw (2–0)||Montrenes (4–1)||None||2,011||16–3||1–0 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 16 ||No. 10 Ole Miss||No. 6|| McKethan Stadium ||W 7–6||Hart (6–0)||Pickens (3–1)||Coleman (2)||4,638||17–3||2–0 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 17 ||No. 10 Ole Miss||No. 6|| McKethan Stadium ||W 17–6||Ramsey (3–0)||Horne (0–1)||None||1,972||18–3||3–0 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 19 ||2002 UMass Minutemen Massachusetts||No. 6|| McKethan Stadium ||W 15–3||Foster (1–0)||Ratliff (1–1)||None||703||19–3||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 20 ||2002 Dartmouth Big Green Dartmouth||No. 6|| McKethan Stadium ||W 9–1||Pete (3–0)||Velosky (0–1)||None||1,343||20–3||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | March 22 ||at No. 4 South Carolina||No. 6||Sarge Frye FieldColumbia, SC||L 1–2||Bell (5–1)||Ramshaw (2–1)||Taylor (5)||2,242||20–4||3–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 23 ||at No. 4 South Carolina||No. 6||Sarge Frye Field||W 14–5||Hart (7–0)||Marchbanks (5–2)||None||4,123||21–4||4–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | March 24 ||at No. 4 South Carolina||No. 6||Sarge Frye Field||L 4–6||Bondurant (3–0)||Ramsey (3–1)||Taylor (6)||3,898||21–5||4–2 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 26 ||2002 Army Black Knights Army||No. 7|| McKethan Stadium ||W 17–1||Sadowski (1–0)||Kashner (1–1)||None||2,015||22–5||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | March 29 ||No. 23 2002 Auburn Tigers Auburn||No. 7|| McKethan Stadium ||L 3–8||Speigner (6–2)||Ramshaw (2–2)||Dueitt (3)||3,486||22–6||4–3 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 30 ||No. 23 Auburn||No. 7|| McKethan Stadium ||W 9–5||Hart (8–0)||Hughey (1–1)||None||2,833||23–6||5–3 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | March 31 ||No. 23 Auburn||No. 7|| McKethan Stadium ||W 6–1||Ramsey (4–1)||Paxton (6–2)||Coleman (3)||1,627||24–6||6–3 |- y background:#FFF;color:#0021A5; April (8–7) Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 3 ||at 2002 Jacksonville Dolphins Jacksonville||No. 7||Alexander Brest FieldJacksonville, FL||L 2–7||Regas (2–5)||Foster (1–1)||None||2,178||24–7||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 5 ||at No. 5 2002 Alabama Crimson Tide Alabama||No. 7||Sewell–Thomas StadiumTuscaloosa, AL||L 1–4||Cormier (8–0)||Ramshaw (2–3)||None||5,285||24–8||6–4 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 6 ||at No. 5 Alabama||No. 7||Sewell–Thomas Stadium||L 2–7||Norris (2–0)||Hart (8–1)||Reed (6)||5,478||24–9||6–5 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 7 ||at No. 5 Alabama||No. 7||Sewell–Thomas Stadium||L 5–6||Tankersley (5–2)||Coleman (0–2)||None||5,201||24–10||6–6 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 9 ||2002 Stetson Hatters Stetson||No. 12|| McKethan Stadium ||L 3–6||Blair (3–1)||Boss (0–1)||Lincoln (4)||1,955||24–11||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 12 ||at 2002 Tennessee Volunteers Tennessee||No. 12||Lindsey Nelson StadiumKnoxville, TN||W 15–1||Ramshaw (3–3)||Riley (2–2)||None||1,607||25–11||7–6 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 13 ||at Tennessee||No. 12||Lindsey Nelson Stadium||W 8–510||Coleman (1–2)||Terrell (2–6)||None||2,555||26–11||8–6 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 14 ||at Tennessee||No. 12||Lindsey Nelson Stadium||L 5–6||Johnson (2–0)||Ramsey (4–2)||Terrell (4)||937||26–12||8–7 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 17 ||2002 Bethune–Cookman Wildcats Bethune–Cookman||No. 11|| McKethan Stadium ||W 5–4||Bartelt (3–1)||Johnson (1–4)||Coleman (4)||1,106||27–12||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 19 ||2002 Vanderbilt Commodores Vanderbilt||No. 11|| McKethan Stadium ||W 13–7||Bartelt (4–1)||Sowers (3–5)||Goldfarb (1)||2,351||28–12||9–7 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 20 ||Vanderbilt||No. 11|| McKethan Stadium ||W 8–7||Hart (9–1)||Maultsby (0–3)||Boss (1)||1,912||29–12||10–7 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 21 ||Vanderbilt||No. 11|| McKethan Stadium ||W 7–3||Ramsey (5–2)||Little (4–5)||Goldfarb (2)||1,803||30–12||11–7 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 26 ||2002 Georgia Bulldogs Georgia||No. 11|| McKethan Stadium ||W 12–6||Ramshaw (4–3)||Westphal (3–2)||Boss (2)||3,540||31–12||12–7 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | April 27 ||Georgia||No. 11|| McKethan Stadium ||W 12–9||Hart (10–1)||Sharpton (5–4)||Bartelt (1)||3,512||32–12||13–7 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | April 28 ||Georgia||No. 11|| McKethan Stadium ||L 4–6||Carswell (4–3)||Goldfarb (1–2)||None||2,517||32–13||13–8 |- y background:#FFF;color:#0021A5; May (8–2) Date Opponent Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SEC Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 3 ||at 2002 Mississippi State Bulldogs Mississippi State||No. 12||Dudy Noble FieldStarkville, MS||W 5–4||Bartelt (5–1)||Maholm (8–2)||Coleman (5)||6,562||33–13||14–8 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 4 ||at Mississippi State||No. 12||Dudy Noble Field||W 5–3||Hart (11–1)||Brock (6–4)||Goldfarb (3)||6,234||34–13||15–8 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 5 ||at Mississippi State||No. 12||Dudy Noble Field||W 4–0||Ramsey (6–2)||Collums (3–5)||None||3,074||35–13||16–8 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 7 ||2002 South Florida Bulls South Florida||No. 10|| McKethan Stadium ||W 10–9||Goldfarb (2–2)||Livingston (1–2)||None||1,506||36–13||– |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | May 10 ||No. 25 2002 LSU Tigers LSU||No. 10|| McKethan Stadium ||L 4–510||Tompkins (5–0)||Goldfarb (2–3)||None||3,470||36–14||16–9 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 11 ||No. 25 LSU||No. 10|| McKethan Stadium ||W 6–3||Hart (12–1)||Wilson (7–4)||Goldfarb (4)||3,486||37–14||17–9 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | May 12 ||No. 25 LSU||No. 10|| McKethan Stadium ||L 5–8||Pettit (7–6)||Ramsey (6–3)||None||2,233||37–15||17–10 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 18 ||at 2002 Kentucky Wildcats Kentucky||No. 14||Cliff Hagan StadiumLexington, KY||W 14–4||Hart (13–1)||Hahn (3–8)||Bartelt (2)||473||38–15||18–10 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 18 ||at Kentucky||No. 14||Cliff Hagan Stadium||W 18–6||Ramsey (7–3)||Corrado (1–4)||None||378||39–15||19–10 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 19 ||at Kentucky||No. 14||Cliff Hagan Stadium||W 5–4||Coleman (2–2)||Blanton (5–7)||None||603||40–15||20–10 |- |- ! style="background:#FF4A00;color:white;"| Post-season (6–4) |- y background:#FFF SEC Tournament (3–2) Date Opponent Seed/Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record SECT Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 22 ||vs. (6) Georgia||(3) No. 14||Metropolitan StadiumHoover, AL||W 7–2||Ramshaw (5–3)||Fellows (1–2)||None||–||41–15||1–0 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | May 23 ||vs. (2) No. 7 Alabama||(3) No. 14||Metropolitan Stadium||L 4–7||Cormier (10–3)||Hart (13–2)||Reed (9)||–||41–16||1–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 24 ||vs. (7) Mississippi State||(3) No. 14||Metropolitan Stadium||W 5–0||Ramsey (8–3)||Young (5–2)||None||–||42–16 |2–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 25 ||vs. (2) No. 7 Alabama||(3) No. 14||Metropolitan Stadium||W 7–4||Pete (4–0)||Sanders (8–3)||Coleman (6)||10,907||43–16 |3–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | May 25 ||vs. (2) No. 7 Alabama||(3) No. 14||Metropolitan Stadium||L 9–11||Reed (5–0)||Goldfarb (2–4)||Norris (1)||–||43–17||3–2 |- y background:#FFF NCAA tournament: Gainesville Regional (3–2) Date Opponent Seed/Rank StadiumSite Score Win Loss Save Attendance Overall Record Regional Record |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | May 31 ||(4) Bethune–Cookman||(1) No. 15|| McKethan Stadium ||W 13–1||Ramsey (9–3)||Montes (10–3)||None||2,246||44–17||1–0 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | June 1 ||(3) Miami (FL)Rivalry||(1) No. 15|| McKethan Stadium ||L 2–7||Bengochea (6–6)||Hart (13–3)||None||4,125||44–18||1–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | June 1 ||(4) Bethune–Cookman||(1) No. 15|| McKethan Stadium ||W 21–10||Ramshaw (6–3)||Dooley (9–6)||Falkenbach (1)||1,509||45–18||2–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ddffdd" | June 2 ||(3) Miami (FL)Rivalry||(1) No. 15|| McKethan Stadium ||W 11–1010||Ramsey (10–3)||Huguet (6–4)||None||2,594||46–18||3–1 |- align="center" bgcolor="ffdddd" | June 2 ||(3) Miami (FL)Rivalry||(1) No. 15|| McKethan Stadium ||L 7–8||Huguet (7–4)||Ramshaw (6–4)||None||2,533||46–19||3–2 |- Rankings from Collegiate Baseball. 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