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BSB: Dawgs open SEC Tournament play with LSU Tuesday at 10:30 AM

Georgia will face LSU in the opening game of the SEC Baseball Tournament Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. ET at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. The game will be televised by the SEC Network and be available on the Georgia Bulldog Sports Network.

The Bulldogs are the No. 6 seed after finishing the regular season with a 39-14 mark including 17-13 in SEC action. The Tigers went 36-20 and garnered the No. 11 seed after posting a 13-17 SEC record. The teams did not face each other during the regular season. The Bulldogs beat LSU 4-1 at the 2021 SEC Tournament. LSU won a series 2-1 over the Bulldogs in Baton Rouge in 2022 and 2-1 in Athens in 2023.

The 12-team field features single elimination play on Tuesday with double-elimination starting on Wednesday. The Georgia-LSU winner will face SEC co-champion Kentucky (39-12, 22-8 SEC), the No. 3 seed, Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. ET. The Wildcats and Tennessee (46-10, 22-8 SEC) finished as co-champions of the league. The division winners earn the top two seeds with UT holding the tiebreaker over the Wildcats. 

Georgia will be making its 29th overall appearance at this event with a 31-50 record. The Bulldogs best finish has been second three times (1985, 1986 and 1989).

2024 SEC Tournament Schedule

Tuesday-Sunday, May 21-26, Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, Hoover, Ala.
All times ET

Tuesday, May 21           
Game 1 (10:30 a.m.) – #6 Georgia vs. #11 LSU [SEC Network] 
Game 2 (TBD) – #7 Alabama vs. #10 South Carolina [SEC Network] 
Game 3 (5:30 p.m.) – #8 Vanderbilt vs. #9 Florida [SEC Network] 
Game 4 (TBD) – #5 Mississippi State vs. #12 Ole Miss [SEC Network] 
 
Wednesday, May 22    
Game 5 (10:30 a.m.) – #3 Kentucky vs. Winner Game 1 [SEC Network] 
Game 6 (TBD) – #2 Arkansas vs. Winner Game 2 [SEC Network] 
Game 7 (5:30 p.m.) – #1 Tennessee vs. Winner Game 3 [SEC Network] 
Game 8 (TBD) – #4 Texas A&M vs. Winner Game 4 [SEC Network] 
 
Thursday, May 23         
Game 9 (10:30 a.m.) – Loser Game 5 vs. Loser Game 6 [SEC Network] 
Game 10 (TBD) – Loser Game 7 vs. Loser Game 8 [SEC Network] 
Game 11 (5:30 p.m.) – Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 6 [SEC Network] 
Game 12 (TBD) – Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8 [SEC Network] 
 
Friday, May 24               
Game 13 (4:00 p.m.) – Winner Game 9 vs. Loser Game 11 [SEC Network] 
Game 14 (TBD) – Winner Game 10 vs. Loser 12 [SEC Network] 
 
Saturday, May 25         
Game 15 (1 p.m.) – Winner Game 13 vs. Winner Game 11 [SEC Network] 
Game 16 (TBD) – Winner Game 14 vs. Winner Game 12  [SEC Network] 
 
Sunday, May 26            
Game 17 (3 p.m.) – Winner Game 15 vs. Winner Game 16  [ESPN2]

WTEN: Dawgs sweep Pepperdine, advance to NCAA Tournament National Championship

 The No. 7 Georgia women’s tennis team advanced to the NCAA Tournament National Championship match after a dominant 4-0 sweep over No. 6 Pepperdine at the Greenwood Tennis Center on Saturday.

Fast Facts

• Drake Bernstein becomes the first head coach in program history to lead the team to an NCAA National Championship appearance in their first season at the helm.

• Georgia will appear in its sixth NCAA National Championship match in program history and it’s first since 2019.

• The Bulldogs will face a Southeastern Conference opponent in the NCAA National Championship match for the first time in program history.

• All four juniors on the team contributed to a team point against Pepperdine (Mai Nirundorn/Guillermina Grant – 6-4 win on court two doubles, Dasha Vidmanova 6-2, 7-5 win on court one singles, Mell Reasco 7-6(3), 6-3 win on court three singles, Grant 7-5, 6-3 win on court five singles and match clincher).

• Georgia owns a 5-0 combined record this season against both potential national championship opponents (3-0 vs Texas A&M, 2-0 vs Tennessee)

𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑫𝑨𝑾𝑮𝑺 𝑨𝑹𝑬 𝑵𝑨𝑻𝑻𝒀 𝑩𝑶𝑼𝑵𝑫 🤩#GoDawgs pic.twitter.com/kkxhVDgJzz

— Georgia Women's Tennis (@UGAWomensTennis) May 19, 2024

Singles Results

#16 Dasha Vidmanova (UGA) def. #39 Janice Tjen (PEP), 6-2, 7-5

#15 Lisa Zaar (PEP) vs. #41 Alexandra Vecic (UGA), 6-2, 5-6 (unfinished)

#65 Mell Reasco (UGA) def. #12 Savannah Broadus (PEP), 7-6(3), 6-3

#80 Nikki Redelijk (PEP) vs. #70 Anastasiia Lopata (UGA), 7-5, 1-3 (unfinished)

Guillermina Grant (UGA) def. #86 Anna Campana (PEP), 7-5, 6-3

Vivian Yang (PEP) vs. #87 Mai Nirundorn (UGA), 5-7, 6-2 (unfinished)

Doubles Results

#2 Savannah Broadus/Janice Tjen (PEP) vs. #14 Aysegul Mert/Dasha Vidmanova (UGA), 5-6  (unfinished)

#55 Guillermina Grant/Mai Nirundorn (UGA) def. Nikki Redelijk/Vivian Yang (PEP), 6-4

Anastasiia Lopata/Mell Reasco (UGA) def. Anna Campana/Lisa Zaar (PEP), 6-2

Match Notes

Order of finish:

Singles — (1,3,5) ; Doubles — (3,2)

Key Quote

Head Coach Drake Bernstein: “Just really proud of this team, really proud of the ground that we’ve covered in the last really heavy three months. This team’s got a lot of character, a lot of heart, a lot of fight. They’re playing for a lot of people back home, whether that’s back home where they’re from and families, or the UGA family that’s just the best support in college tennis. I think that that’s the kind of the effort that you get when you’ve got that kind of support, and it’s awesome to see them take advantage of that and let themselves shine on this kind of stage.”

Up Next

Georgia will now compete in the 2024 NCAA Tournament National Championship match on Sunday, May 19 at 6:30 p.m. CT at the Greenwood Tennis Center. The Bulldogs will face off against the winner of the second semifinal between No. 13 Texas A&M and No. 16 Tennessee. The match will be streamed on ESPN+.

BSB: Flordia takes series with 11- 19 Saturday win

 Eighth-ranked Georgia fell to Florida 19-11 Saturday as the Bulldogs dropped their only home series of the regular season at Foley Field. 

Fast Facts

• Sophomore Zach Harris, who broke his nose Friday in the bullpen, got his fifth start of the season and provided 3.1 innings, allowing four hits, four runs with two strikeouts two to fall to 5-1. 
• Redshirt sophomore Charlie Condon (3-6, 2 RBI, 2B, HR) extended his hitting streak to 24 games, with a double in the first inning. He hit his 60th career homer in the 8th inning including his NCAA-leading 35th of the season. 
• Junior Slate Alford (2-5, RBI, HR) hit his 16th home run of the season, coming in the 8th inning. 
• Graduate Clayton Chadwick (2-2, RBI, 2 2B) entered the game in the 7th inning and added a pair of doubles, giving him a total of 14 on the year. 
• DJ Radtke pitched 2.1 scoreless innings as he was one of seven who saw action Saturday. The Gators posted a 12-run inning in the fourth. 
• The Bulldogs finished the regular season with a record of 39-14 and 17-13 in the SEC, their best regular season mark since 2019 (42-14). 

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Key Quotes 

Charlie Condon, 1B 

On the loss… 

“If anything, I think it’s a bit of a wake-up call. We are obviously in a good spot, but we’re not a finished product by any means. We’ve been playing good baseball recently, but any day you give up a 12-spot, it’s about what you have left in the tank after that happens. We seemed to do a good job of showing some fight. At the end, it felt like we were right there with it and stayed in it, not giving our bats away, we had a couple of pitchers come in and try to get outs. It’s about doing the best you can with the situation.” 

Ike Cousins Head Coach Wes Johnson 

On the team’s performance today… 

“We didn’t play as well today, but there were some positives. I thought the fight that our offense showed late in the game was good. Zach [Harris] threw the ball well for a couple of innings, but people don’t know that he broke his nose in the bullpen yesterday, so he pitched today with a broken nose. I thought he was throwing the ball well. He did get a little weak in the 4th. I have to give them credit. They were getting off some good swings. We have to clean up the guys that came in after him. You’ve got to be able to come in, execute pitches, and shut them down, and we didn’t do it. I challenged our team after that inning to play the second half of the game with some pride and see if we can win the second half, and we did. I thought our offense showed a lot of fight and didn’t quit.” 

Up Next 

Georgia will be the sixth seed in the SEC Tournament at the Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama, and play Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. ET. Georgia’s first round opponent will be determined at the end of SEC play tonight. All of Georgia’s SEC Tournament games will be available on SEC Network and the Georgia Bulldogs Sports Network. 

Box Score

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SB: Georgia advances to today’s final round of the Athens Regional

The No. 11 national seed Georgia softball team fell to the Liberty Flames in Game 3 of Athens Regional, 7-3, then shut out Charlotte in an elimination game, 5-0, to advance to Sunday’s Regional final round. 

The Bulldogs and Flames will square off again on Sunday at noon airing on ESPN2. Georgia must win to force a winner-take-all Game 7. 

Game 1 Fast Facts

• During the game, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) announced its All-Region Teams. Seniors Jayda Kearney and Sara Mosley were named Second Team All-Southeast Region, while graduate Sydney Kuma earned a spot on the Third Team All-Southeast Region. This is the third appearance on the All-Region Teams for all three student-athletes in their careers. 

• Dallis Goodnight led off the game with a home run, her second home run of the season and the fifth of her career. A Georgia batter last led off a game with a home run when Lyndi Rae Davis did it against Jacksonville State on March 9. 

• Sara Mosley was the lone Bulldog with multiple hits, scattering two. It was her 19^th multi-hit game, and Mosley widened her hit streak to six games. 

• This is Georgia’s first loss as the host school in a regional since 2016 in Game 6 of the Athens Regional. Georgia won Game 7 against the Cowgirls to advance to the Super Regional round. 

🔐 LOCKED DOWN D#Team28 | #GoDawgs pic.twitter.com/RKyy194AWb

— Georgia Softball (@UGASoftball) May 19, 2024

Game 2 Fast Facts

• Lilli Backes pitched a complete-game one-hit shutout of Charlotte. It was her ninth complete game and third shutout of the season. Backes last one-hit an opponent in seven innings at Ole Miss on March 23. She walked just one batter and struck out three. 

• Backes’ one-hit shutout comes just one day after Madison Kerpics threw a one-hit shutout against UNCW on Friday. 

• Sara Mosley knocked her 19^th home run of the season, a solo shot in the sixth. It was number 64 of her career, moving her closer to the record of 68 held by Alyssa DiCarlo. The home run lengthened her hit streak to seven games. 

• Five different Bulldog hitters each drove in one run while Sydney Kuma scattered two hits. 

Key Quotes

Head Coach Tony Baldwin

On the competition in day two of the Athens Regional…

“Hats off the Charlotte on a great season. They really finished on a roll there at the end, they have a good coaching staff and good players. It’s never fun to see them, see the other team, finish up their season, but I’m certainly glad that it’s us moving on. Really proud of the way that we bounced back. Super proud of Lilli [Backes] coming back and throwing the way that we know she can and then just continuing to grind through and having quality at-bats and finally breaking through and putting some runs on the board. It was a great bounce back and here we are. We’re gonna go be ready to go again tomorrow.”

On the message to the team after the loss…

“Well, initially, we licked our wounds a little bit and picked ourselves back up. At the end of the day, the message was that we couldn’t let one game beat us twice. And so, we had to fix our mindset and get ourselves back into a place to be ready to go compete because what had been done was done, and the game doesn’t know who’s supposed to win. And so, this afternoon, we had to just come out and play as if it was the only game of the day. The most important game of the day is the one that we’re playing.”

On the Athens Regional final tomorrow…

“We just have to come ready to fight. That’s when you find out what kind of competitor you are, when your back’s up against the wall. I think we showed a little bit of that tonight. It’s gonna have to be ultimately a 14-inning or more kind of a day for us, but it starts with just one inning at a time. Just trying to win an inning and move on to the next and win that inning, and just whatever it takes. That’s the mindset. Whatever we got to do to get to play another day. We got to fight like heck to do it.”

Sydney Kuma | Gr.

On the change of hitting from the first to the second game…

“I would just say it’s a real mindset type of switch, like you got to fight. My hits weren’t the best hits today, but I found a way on and tried to score for my team. I think even just leading into tomorrow, I would just try to find a way to get on. It doesn’t need to be hit over, like a home run, just find a way on, and that’s what’s going to happen.”

Lilli Backes | Jr.

On pitching multiple times in one weekend… 

“I just go out there and compete every time I’m given the ball. I trust my defense and my coaches.”

On her performance in the circle… 

“I felt like my rise ball and my changeup were on. First game, not so much, and I made some adjustments for the second game.”

Up Next

Georgia and Liberty will square off again on Sunday at noon, airing on ESPN2. Georgia must win to force a winner-take-all Game 7.

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