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Florida 10, Miami 2: Gators use thunder to eliminate 'Canes from College World Series

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The first bomb was the deepest.

But with apologies to Yusuf Islam and Sheryl Crow — or not — it was the third home run the Florida Gators hit in a 10-2 rout of Miami on Wednesday, the new deepest one ever hit at TD Ameritrade Park, that really tore the 'Canes apart.

Peter Alonso's seventh-inning blast traveled 421 feet, and found the centerfield bleachers at notoriously cavernous TD Ameritrade, and, like that, Florida had the four longest home runs in the history of the stadium, which dates to 2011.