Florida baseball wrapped up the regular-season schedule with a sweep of the LSU Tigers in Baton Rouge last weekend, giving the Gators series wins in their final three series of the campaign and eight victories in the final 10 games. The late-season surge saw incremental improvements in D1Baseball's rankings for Florida, including its one-spot promotion this week to No. 18. That puts Kevin O'Sullivan's squad between the No. 17 Ole Miss Rebels, who took two of three from the Gators in early April at Condron Family Ballpark, and the No. 19 Oklahoma State Cowboys.After finishing the season with a 37-18 overall record and an 18-12 mark in SEC play, the Orange and Blue earned a No. 5 seed in the 2026 SEC Baseball Tournament this week. Florida's position in the bracket gives it a first-round bye and has the Gators opening up in the second game of the second round, played on Wednesday.They will face the winner of the Vanderbilt Commodores vs.Kentucky Wildcatsmatchup in Game 2, which will be played on Tuesday.D1Baseball Top 25 rankings: End of regular season D1Baseball Top 25 Rankings: Week 14(Presented by @NettingPros)Who's too high? Too low? https://t.co/r6W52iZ0h6pic.twitter.com/tbGPVX7mWv D1Baseball (@d1baseball) May 18, 2026Follow us@GatorsWireon X, formerly known as Twitter, as well as Bluesky, and like our page onFacebookto follow ongoing coverage of Florida Gators news, notes and opinions.This article originally appeared on Gators Wire: Florida's D1Baseball ranking after finishing season with sweep of LSU

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Luka Modricwas included Monday in Croatia's squad and is set to play in his fifth World Cup. Croatia coach Zlatko Dalic named a 26-man roster also featuring Ivan Perii, who has scored in the past three tournaments. Modric broke his cheekbone last month but the Croatia captain is expected to be fit when Croatia kicks off its World Cup campaign against England on June 17. It also plays Panama and Ghana in Group L. The 40-year-old Modric won the Ballon d'Or in 2018 ending the long reign of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. He made his international debut in 2006 and is the most capped Croatian player with 196 international appearances. He could hit the 200-cap milestone at the World Cup. Dalic's squad does not lack experience. It also includes goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic, defender Josko Gvardiol, midfielders Mateo Kovacic and Mario Pasalic, as well as Andrej Kamaric Croatia reached the 2018 World Cup final, losing to France, and finished third at the 2022 tournament. In addition to the 26-player squad, Dalic also named seven stand-by players. ___ Croatia: Goalkeepers: Dominik Livakovic, Dominik Kotarski, Ivor Pandur. Defenders : Josko Gvardiol, Duje Caleta-Car, Josip Sutalo, Josip Stanisic, Marin Pongracic, Martin Erlic, Luka Vuskovic. Midfielders: Luka Modric, Mateo Kovacic, Mario Pasalic, Nikola Vlasic, Luka Sucic, Martin Baturina, Kristjian Jakic, Petar Sucic, Nikola Moro, Toni Fruk. Forwards: Ivan Perisic, Andrej Kramaric, Ante Budimir, Marco Pasalic, Petar Musa, Igor Matanovic. Stand-by players: Lovro Majer, Franjo Ivanovic, Dion Drena Beljo, Ivan Smolcic, Karlo Letica, Adrian Segecic, Luka Stojkovic. Reporting by The Associated Press.

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Four shots back of winner Aaron Rai, Alex Smalley understood he wasnt going to win the PGA Championship if he made the 20-foot birdie putt he was standing over on the 18th green Sunday at Aronimink. The question is whether he realized how much he still would walk away with if he could hole the putt?He made it, and shortly afterward the magnitude of the moment settled in for the 29-year-old PGA Tour pro, playing in just his fifth major championship and never having finished better than T-23 in his prior starts.The birdied allowed him to close with a 69 and grab a share of second place with Jon Rahm at six under for the championship. In turn, his payday at Aronimink jumped significantly; a four-way tie for fourth would have earned him $981,400, but T-2 was worth $1.8 million. In other words, the putt was worth $822,600. And lets look at that a little more closely. The most Alex Smalley had ever won in any tournament of his career was $652,000 when he finished T-2 at the 2023 John Deere Classic. So that putt by itself was worth more than his biggest previous payday in his five years on the PGA Tour. (It also joined one of the more ignominious clubs on tour). More PGA Championship coverage pga championship PGA Championship 2026: Golf needed a new hero. It has one in Aaron Rai, your new major champ Instruction 9 things I learned from pros at the 2026 PGA Championship Payday at Aronimink PGA Championship 2026: Here's the record prize money payout for each golfer at Aronimink The birdie also secured his place in next years Masters (anybody in the top four at the PGA gets an invite) and PGA Championship (top 15 and ties get to come back). But that T-2 finish also boosted him from 78th to 42nd in the Official World Golf Ranking and up to 15th in the FedEx Cup points standings, which got him an exemption into next months U.S. Open (On Monday, anybody in the top 70 in the OWGR earned an exemption to Shinnecock Hills and the top five players on this years FedEx Cup points list not already exempt also got in.)I wasn't really thinking about [the money or exemptions] honestly until I hit the green on 18, saw where I was, Smalley said on Sunday. Was really just trying to two-putt, just trying to lag it up. That 20-footer up the hill on 18, I was just trying to get a tap-in. Fortunate enough that it went in.Smalley will be making his debut at the Masters and has played in the U.S. Open once before, missing the cut in 2017 at Erin Hills after qualifying as an amateur during his college days at Duke.There is yet another reward that will come soon for Smalley as well. In one week, His place on the OWGR will also officially get him into the field for the Open Championship in July (top 50 and ties on May 25 earn exemptions).This week was special. It was a lot of fun, Smalley said. I had a great amount of support out there. I tried not to get caught up in it a whole lot. I tried to just look where my feet were going, but I heard a huge amount of support, and I'm incredibly grateful to state of Pennsylvania and the city of Philadelphia and the surrounding area for rooting me on these last four days.As far as this tournament, in terms of my career, who knows? Maybe it's a springboard. It gives me a lot of confidence coming away from this week to know that I can compete on the PGA Tour and even some of the major championships. So yeah, I think this week will do a lot for me.It will also get him in a lot of big tournaments.