Thanks to taking two of three games from then-No. 3 Vanderbilt over the weekend, Florida moved up two notches in the latest Baseball America rankings released Monday.
The Gators (39-13) jumped from No. 8 to No. 6, while Vanderbilt (42-8) fell from No. 3 to No. 7.
South Carolina (41-11) moved up from No. 4 to No. 3. The top two teams, No. 1 Virginia (45-6) and No. 2 Oregon State (37-12), remain the same. FSU (39-13) jumped three spots to No. 4.
Florida hosts Jacksonville at 7 p.m. Tuesday before closing the regular season against visiting Kentucky starting at 7 p.m. Thursday.
UF sophomore shortstop Nolan Fontana was named as the SEC Player of the Week for the second time this season after leading the Gators to their first series win at Vanderbilt since 2005.
Over four games last week, Fontana boasted a .467 (7-for-15) average. He hit .455 (5-for-11) with a .727 slugging percentage, a .600 on-base percentage, three runs, three walks and two RBI in the series with second-ranked Vanderbilt and did not commit any errors in 16 chances.
In the completion of Friday's suspended series opener, Fontana clubbed a game-tying, two-run homer in the seventh inning on Saturday afternoon to even the contest at 4-4.
Fontana went 1-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base in Saturday's regularly-scheduled game as the Commodores evened the series but then turned in a 3-for-5 effort in Sunday's series finale. He scored the game-tying run in the eighth stanza on a sacrifice fly by sophomore Mike Zunino after he had a one-out single that knotted the contest at 3-3. In the 12th, he drew a leadoff walk and came home on Zunino's three-run homer that resulted in a 6-3 Gator victory.
On the season, Fontana is batting .315 overall with 42 runs, 33 RBI, 10 doubles and a team-high five triples and he sports a .316 average with 22 RBI and 16 runs in SEC action.
