Florida’s Kelsey Bruder took the first pitch she saw against Auburn on Sunday and put it well over the right-field wall for a two-run shot, her 14th home run of the season.

It was a sign of the times for the No. 10 Gators, who socked a program-record eight home runs in a 13-4, six-inning win against the No. 24 Tigers to complete a series sweep.

“They’re very disciplined,” Auburn coach Tina Deese said. “Any time we tried to nibble on a corner, they’d sit and force us to bring one. They had great plate coverage.”

Aja Paculba followed Bruder with a two-run shot in the second, Kelsey Horton hit a two-run homer, Kasey Fagan followed with a solo shot, and Brittany Schutte hit another two-run blast in the third. Paculba and Schutte each hit solo shots in the fifth, and Tiffany DeFelice knocked another solo shot in the sixth.

All but one run for the Gators (37-7, 13-6 SEC) came via a home run, and they socked 15 over the sweep, putting their season total at 89.

“Our pitching just was not able to manage it at all,” Deese said. “We’ll start fresh. We’ve got to have our leaders step up and say, ‘Let’s put this one behind us.”

Florida starter Hannah Rogers kept Auburn (32-12, 11-9) in check for the first three innings before the Tigers broke through in the fourth.

Elizabeth Eisterhold socked a double to the fence in left to score Hilary Mavromat and Baylee Stephens, and Morgan Estell followed with a bases-loaded walk to score Eisterhold and cut the Gators’ lead to 9-3.

But Paculba and Schutte answered with their second home runs of the game in the fifth.

The Tigers tacked on another in their half, pushing across Lauren Guzman – who led off the inning with a double – on a Morgan Murphy RBI single.

But DeFelice went the yard in the sixth and Auburn went down in order in the bottom to finish the game.

Eisterhold and Guzman each had two hits for the Tigers, Bruder was 3-for-4 for Florida, and Paculba, Schutte, Megan Bush and Megan Moultrie each added two hits for the Gators.

With the loss, Auburn sits in second in the SEC West and sixth overall in the conference, with seven of its nine SEC losses coming to top-10 teams Alabama, Tennessee and Florida.

“That’s why we play in the Southeastern Conference: to play the best,” Deese said. “We did what we had to do against the lower half of the conference. We’re in the upper half of the conference and we just have to get out there and play our guts out. See what we can do.”

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