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MBB: Silas Demary Jr.’s Career Night Paces Dawgs Over Texas
The Georgia Bulldogs (18-11, 6-10 SEC) cruised past the Texas Longhorns (16-13, 5-11 SEC), 83-67, on Saturday night at the Moody Center. Four scorers reached double figures headlined by sophomore guard Silas Demary Jr.’s career-high 26 points on the night.
Fast Facts
• After Demary Jr.’s 26-point performance, sophomore guard Blue Cain followed with 13 points while graduate guard Dakota Leffew and freshman forward Asa Newell finished with 11 and 10, respectively.
• The win marks the Bulldogs’ first conference road victory of the season.
• Demary Jr. posted his third 20+ point outing of the season and the fourth of his career, averaging 20.5 points-per-game in his last six games.
• Despite falling one rebound shy of a double-double, Cain became the first Bulldog to record 10+ points, nine or more rebounds and three or more steals in a conference game since Anthony Edwards against Alabama on Feb. 8, 2020.
• Georgia shot 51.8 percent from the field on the night, marking the third-highest team output in a road conference game under head coach Mike White.
Key Quote
“Confidence spreads, it just does,” head coach Mike White said. “We’re doing a little bit more off the ball than we were. But for the most part, I just think it’s just collectively, these guys have bought into making simple plays, hitting singles, passing it better, holding seals better, playing off two feet, all the little things that lead to value in the basketball at a higher rate.”
Box Score
Up Next
The Bulldogs will remain on the road when it faces South Carolina on Tuesday, March 4 with tipoff set at 6 p.m. ET at Colonial Life Arena. The game will be televised on SEC Network.
BSB: Slate Alford Leads as UGA Wins Two from Florida Gulf Coast
Senior Slate Alford provided the third straight walk-off of Florida Gulf Coast Saturday as sixth-ranked Georgia claimed a doubleheader, winning 10-0 on a run-rule in game one and then 9-8 in 10 innings in game two.
The Bulldogs have won nine straight. On Friday, Alford’s bases-loaded fielder’s choice scored the winning run, and on Saturday it was a sacrifice fly for a run-rule in the first game and then a run-scoring single in the 10th capped a comeback from an early 6-0 deficit.
Fast Facts
- Three Georgia (12-1) pitchers combined on a two-hit shutout in game one. Zach Brown (2-1) tossed 3.0 scoreless innings, allowing just one hit, to earn his second win of the year. Lucas Morici made his debut with two scoreless innings in game one.
- All four of the Bulldogs home runs in game one came with two outs. They were hit by Robbie Burnett, Nolan McCarthy, Slate Alford and Daniel Jackson.
- Ryland Zaborowski sent two home runs over the right field wall in the game two comeback victory as Georgia trailed 6-0 after the first.
- DJ Radtke struck out a career-high four batters in 2.0 innings of relief in game two with Brian Curley collecting his first win as a Bulldog with three shutout innings and five strikeouts.
- Tre Phelps launched a two-run blast in the seventh to send the game into extra innings to cap a 3-3, 2 RBI performance after going 2-for-3 in the first game.
Key Quote
Ike Cousins Head Baseball Coach Wes Johnson
On game two being another comeback win
“As the coach, you have to stay calm and just believe that your guys are going to come back and get off really good swings, have really good at bats and whoever you’re putting in a game is going to get outs, and we did that again. We’re getting really close on the pitching side. The challenge is you have three games in four days left now and it’s going to take a second for the pitcher to reset. Through all this adversity of having to comeback, come from behind and do different things, we’re starting to see what we can do on the mound and who’s going to be out there.”
Slate Alford, INF
On what was going through his mind during his last at-bat
“Coach gave me a good game plan and if it wasn’t me, it would’ve been someone else so just give God the glory.”
On the team’s mindset when they’re behind
“Just never panic. We know we’re a good team and we know that we’ll put it together and that’s how it happens.”
Up Next
Georgia (12-1) will conclude the four-game series against Florida Gulf Coast (4-7) Sunday with first pitch slated for 1 p.m.
SB: Georgia Takes Down Ohio State and Stetson
The 10th-ranked Georgia softball team won a pair of games by one run each on Saturday at the Bulldog Classic, first shutting out Stetson 1-0, then coming from behind and walking off the Ohio State Buckeyes, 7-6.
Georgia improves to 18-1 on the season.
SOFTBALL | vs. STETSON | W, 1-0
Winning pitcher: Rachel Gibson (4-0)
Losing Pitcher: Caitlyn Kulcyzyski (1-3)
SOFTBALL | vs. OHIO STATE | W, 7-6
Winning pitcher: Lilli Backes (8-0)
Losing Pitcher: Kennedy Kay (3-2)
FAST FACTS
- Senior Rachel Gibson pitched a career-long seven innings in her complete-game. She shut out the Hatters, allowing just two hits.
- Georgia’s lone run in the first game of the day came on a first-and-third situation in the second. The runner on first was caught stealing on the play, but Emily Digby scored from third to find the 1-0 lead in the second.
- Lilli Backes earned her eighth win, coming out of the pen in the Ohio State game and working the final inning and two-thirds. Randi Roelling pitched 5.1 innings in her start, striking out five Buckeyes.
- Tyler Ellison put Georgia on the board in the first inning, hit a home run in the sixth inning to widen the lead to 5-3, then provided the walk-off play, a fielder’s choice to second. On the play, Sarah Gordon, who tied the game with an RBI single, beat the tag at the plate to win the game.
- Jaydyn Goodwin continued her hot hitting with a two-run home run in the fifth to give Georgia the lead back 4-3.
UP NEXT
The Bulldogs will rematch Ohio State on Sunday at 1 p.m. to close out action at the Bulldog Classic. Tickets for every day of the Bulldog Classic can be purchased online at GeorgiaDogs.com.
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