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■ Florida sophomore Jackson Kowar improved to 11-0 with a victory over Mississippi State in Thursday’s morning game. Kowar gave up 9 hits and 2 earned runs and was the beneficiary of the Gators’ 11-run eighth inning, which tied an SEC Tournament record and marked the highest-scoring inning in an SEC game this season.

■ Mississippi State’s 12-3 loss to Florida in the morning game was its sixth in a row against the Gators at the SEC Tournament dating to 1996.

■ Mississippi State’s Cole Gordon, making his seventh start of 2017, hit his first batter against Florida but opened with four no-hit innings and faced the minimum through four, thanks to a double play. Gordon threw seven shutout innings before allowing a leadoff hit in the eighth and was charged with one run.