NCAA Baseball Tournament: Hidden ball trick can't save Florida

Tom Gatto

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Florida shockingly is done in the NCAA Baseball Tournament, but it will always have its successful hidden ball trick.

Gators shortstop Richie Martin caught Charleston Southern's Nick Pappas napping at second base as pitcher Logan Shore oh-so-casually tied his shoelaces:

(via Yahoo! Sports and CBSSports.com)

The Gators, who came into the tourney as the No. 2 national seed, lost at home to Charleston Southern on Friday despite the hidden ball trick, and to North Carolina on Saturday.

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.