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Baseball: Dawgs walk-off Owls

A dropped fly ball by Kennesaw State left fielder Jamarie Brooks resulted in a 10-9 walk-off for Georgia Tuesday evening at Foley Field before 1,115 spectators.  

The Bulldogs (25-20) squandered a five-run lead in the ninth as the Owls tied the game on five unearned runs following a Georgia miscue. However, the Bulldogs responded in the bottom of the frame as the Owls (22-21) finished with four errors on the night. 

“It’s a win,” Georgia’s Ike Cousins head baseball coach Scott Stricklin said. “Certainly, giving up five runs in the ninth, is not how you want to do it and not the way you draw it up. We found a way. I thought Luke Wagner had a tough break happen when we make an error in front of him, and they are able to score the runs. He got that last out to get us into the dugout tied as they had the go-ahead run on third base. That showed some toughness right there. This is a tough team.”  

The Bulldogs tallied nine hits on the evening, as graduate Connor Tate recorded three and Will David drove in four runs on a pair of hits. Wagner picked up the win to move to 2-3 while KSU reliever Agyei Quinichett dropped to 1-1. In his first career start, Georgia freshman Jarvis Evans went 3.2 innings and struck out a career-high six. Dalton Rhadans followed with 1.1 scoreless innings. 

With bases loaded and one out in the second, a single to center field from freshman Justin Thomas scored David and junior Sebastian Murillo to put Georgia on the board. Graduate Ben Anderson added another run with a sacrifice fly to score freshman Josh Tate, 3-0. Kennesaw got on the board in the third with a solo home run by Chris Cole. The Bulldogs added a fourth run in the bottom of the frame with an RBI-double from David, 4-1. A leadoff home run by Zac Corbin gave the Owls a second run in the fourth.  

The Owls scored a fourth run in the eighth as Hassan singled to center field to score Donovan Cash. With two outs in the bottom of the frame, David cranked his second hit of the night for a double to drive in Tate, Anderson and graduate Mason LaPlante as Georgia led 9-4. Nick Hassan delivered a game-tying three-run double in the ninth for KSU. 

LaPlante and Anderson drew back-to-back walk in the bottom of the ninth. With two outs, both runners advanced on a wild pitch to put the Bulldogs in scoring position for Cole Wagner. He lifted a ball to left field as Brooks took a couple steps to his left and then had it pop out of his glove as LaPlante touched home for a 10-9 win. 

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WTennis: UGA will be represented by five student-athletes at the 2023 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships

The University of Georgia women’s tennis team will be represented by five student-athletes at the 2023 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships, according to an announcement Tuesday evening. Guillermina Grant, Lea Ma, Mai Nirundorn, Mell Reasco, and Dasha Vidmanova earned bids to compete.

Senior Lea Ma and sophomores Mell Reasco and Dasha Vidmanova will represent the Bulldogs in singles action. Ma, a native of Dix Hills, New York, was named the No. 3 seed, while Vidmanova, a native of Prague, Czech Republic, was named the No. 4 seed. The duo also earned the coveted “All-American” honor for earning a top 16 seed in the NCAA singles championship.

Ma, ranked No. 3 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA), holds a 29-5 overall record with wins over 14 ranked opponents, including 10 top-50 victories, and is one of two players in the country to defeat top-ranked Fiona Crawley (UNC) this season. In the fall, Ma claimed the ITA Southeast Region Championship.

Vidmanova, ranked No. 4 by the ITA, boasts a team-best 30-5 overall record with wins over 14 ranked opponents, including nine top-50 victories. Earlier this year, She was named to the ITA National Team Indoors All-Tournament Team and ITA National Team Indoors Most Outstanding Player.

Reasco, ranked No. 66 by the ITA and has a 21-6 overall record and has logged five wins against ranked opponents, including three top-50 wins. She previously earned All-American honors in 2022 before opting out of the NCAA Singles Championship.

In doubles action, sophomore Guillermina Grant and Mai Nirundorn will represent Georgia. The duo are 17-9 on the season, with a pair of ranked wins and are currently ranked No. 31 in the ITA polls

The singles and doubles competition will be conducted May 22-27 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida, after the conclusion of the team championship, which runs from May 17-20. This year’s event will be conducted jointly with the NCAA Divisions II and III Men’s and Women’s Tennis Championships and hosted by the University of Central Florida and the Greater Orlando Sports Commission.

This week, Georgia opens the NCAA tournament by hosting the first and second rounds in Athens. The action begins Friday at 1 p.m., when the Bulldogs host Florida A&M. Ticket information and a full schedule for this weekend’s event are below.

Ticket Information

Tickets for this weekend’s matches go on sale online at Georgia Bulldogs | Online Ticket Office | Event Groups (evenue.net) beginning Tuesday at 9 a.m. Fans can also purchase tickets at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex beginning one hour prior to the start of the first match each day (based on availability). Will call opens at 9 a.m. Friday, 9 a.m. Saturday and noon on Sunday. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for youth and seniors. The ticket is good for the entire day. 

Schedule
Friday, May 5 (women’s matches only)
10 a.m. — Florida State vs. Illinois
1 p.m. — Georgia vs. Florida A&M

Saturday, May 6 (men and women)
10 a.m. — NC State vs. Oklahoma (men’s first round)
1 p.m. — Georgia vs. FGCU (men’s first round)
4 p.m. — Women’s Second Round Match

Sunday, May 7
1 p.m. — Men’s Second Round Match

MTennis: Trent Bryde, Philip Henning and Ethan Quinn were selected to compete in the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships

Henning and Quinn will be representing the Bulldogs in singles and Bryde and Quinn set to compete in doubles, the NCAA announced on Tuesday evening.

Quinn was named the No. 2 seed in the 64-person singles field, while in doubles, Bryde and Quinn were selected as the No. 4 overall seed in the field of 32. The NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships will begin two days after the team tournament concludes on May 20 and will also be played at the United States Tennis Association National Campus. 

All matches in both singles and doubles will be the best-of-three sets. No-ad scoring and a 7-point tiebreaker (first to seven, must win by two) at six-games-all will be used to decide the set. In doubles, a 10-point match tiebreaker will be played instead of a third set.

Quinn impressed in his first season of collegiate tennis, being named the Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year and earning a spot on the All-SEC First Team. The Fresno, Calif. native played the top spot for Georgia in singles, where he finished with a 16-8 record, including winning his previous nine matches and is 14-1 since Feb. 19. After winning the Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American singles title in October, Quinn entered the spring as the top-ranked singles player in the country and did not leave the top five all season. 

Redshirt senior Henning earned his second consecutive NCAA Singles Tournament bid as an at-large section. The team’s choice for No. 2 in singles, Henning amassed a 15-5 record from the court in the dual match season and has the second-most ranked wins on the team with 14. The Bloemfontein, South Africa native earned All-SEC First Team honors after finishing the conference slate as the only player to go undefeated with a minimum of two matches.

This marks the second-straight NCAA Doubles Championship berth for Bryde, who paired with partner Quinn on court one this season. Together, they went 15-9 in the spring, earning 11 wins against ranked opponents and are 8-2 in their last 10 matches. The No. 5 doubles team in the country, Bryde and Quinn clinched the point six times for the Bulldogs and have eight wins by 6-3 or better. Redshirt senior Bryde was named to the All-SEC First Team, his second career All-SEC honors and first on the First Team.

A Georgia athlete has won the NCAA Singles Championship four times (Mikael Pernfors in 1984 and 1985; Matias Boeker in 2001 and 2002). The Bulldogs have also claimed the doubles title on three occasions – Ola Malmqvist and Allen Miller in 1983, Boeker and Travis Parrott, and John Isner and Antonio Ruiz in 2005.

The Georgia men’s tennis team earned the No. 6 overall seed in the team portion of the NCAA Tournament, hosting Florida Gulf Coast, Oklahoma and NC State for the first two rounds this Saturday and Sunday at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex. The Bulldogs’ opening round matchup will be against the FGCU Eagles on Saturday, May 6 at 1 p.m. ET, where the teams will face off for the first time in program history.

Ticket Information

Tickets for this weekend’s matches go on sale online at Georgia Bulldogs | Online Ticket Office | Event Groups (evenue.net) beginning Tuesday at 9 a.m.  Fans can also purchase tickets at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex beginning one hour prior to the start of the first match each day (based on availability). Will call opens at 9 a.m. Friday, 9 a.m. Saturday and noon on Sunday. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for youth and seniors. The ticket is good for the entire day. 

Schedule
Friday, May 5 (women’s matches only)
10 a.m. — Florida State vs. Illinois
1 p.m. — Georgia vs. Florida A&M

Saturday, May 6 (Men and women)
10 a.m. — NC State vs. Oklahoma (men’s first round)
1 p.m. — Georgia vs. FGCU (men’s first round)
4 p.m. — Women’s Second Round Match

Sunday, May 7
1 p.m. — Men’s Second Round Match

MBB: Russel Tchewa, a 7-0 280-pound center has signed a letter of intent to play for the Georgia

 Russel Tchewa, a 7-0 280-pound center who was one of the top rebounders and most efficient interior scorers in the American Athletic Conference for South Florida last season, has signed a letter of intent to play for the Georgia Bulldogs during the 2023-24 season, head coach Mike White announced on Tuesday.

Tchewa (pronounced chee-wuh) started 27 of 29 games played for the Bulls last season and was USF’s leading rebounder (8.6 rpg) and second-leading scorer (11.1 ppg). Tchewa ranked No. 2 in the AAC and No. 54 nationally rebounding, as well as No. 4 among conference leaders in field goal percentage (.606). He notched 19 double-figure scoring outputs, including a trio of 20-point performances, 11 double-digit rebounding tallies, and six double-doubles.

Tchewa played at South Florida for three seasons after attending Texas Tech as a freshman. All told, he has averaged 6.5 points and 4.8 rebounds in 104 career outings, with 59 starts. For the Bulls, Tchewa averaged 8.0 points and 5.7 rebounds as a junior, more than doubling his sophomore season efforts of 3.3 points and 2.4 rebounds per game. In Lubbock, he averaged 1.7 points and 0.1 rebounds in 23 games played during the 2019-20 campaign.

A native of Douala, Cameron, Tchewa spent the 2018-19 season at Putnam Science Academy in Putnam, Conn., where he was teammates with nine other future Division I players. He also played for three seasons at Grissin bon Reggio Emilia, a prep school in Italy. Tchewa helped A.S. Stella Azzura, a club team from Rome, to a runner-up finish in the 2018 U18 EuroLeague Adidas Next Generation Tournament. Over eight games in a qualifying tourney and the finals site, Tchewa averaged 10.6 points and 6.0 rebounds per game.

Tchewa is the sixth signee overall – and third transfer – set to join the Bulldogs next season. 

Previously, White announced the addition of transfers RJ Melendez, ESPN.com’s No. 56 recruit in the Class of 2021 who played at Illinois the last two seasons, and Jalen DeLoach, an All-Atlantic 10 performer at VCU in 2022-23 who is originally from Savannah, Ga. 

In addition, Georgia signed three top-100 prep prospects who comprise the nation’s No. 19 recruiting class, according to 247Sports.com. Silas Demary Jr., a guard from Raleigh, N.C. ranked as high as No. 41 nationally, inked papers with the Bulldogs last week. Last November, Georgia signed Lamariyon “Mari” Jordan, a small forward from Norcross High School, and Dylan James, a power forward from Winter Haven (Fla.) High School. Nationally, Jordan and James are ranked as the No. 83 and No. 90 recruits, respectively, by ESPN.com.

Georgia wrapped up 2022-23 with a 16-16 record in White’s first campaign in Athens. The Bulldogs improved their win total by from the previous season by 10 victories, the second-largest regular-season increase among all Power 5 programs.

Stats (from ESPN)

CFP announced playoff dates for 2024 and 2025

The College Football Playoff (CFP) yesterday announced the game dates and bowl assignments for the 2024 and 2025 college football seasons. The new dates are the next step in the transition to a 12-team playoff format set to begin in 2024.

The new schedule will be as follows:

2024 Season

First Round (On-Campus)

• Friday, December 20, 2024: One Game (evening)
• Saturday, December 21, 2024: Three Games (early afternoon, late afternoon and evening)

Quarterfinals

• Tuesday, December 31, 2024: Vrbo Fiesta Bowl (evening)
• Wednesday, January 1, 2025: Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (early afternoon), Rose Bowl Game (late afternoon) and Allstate Sugar Bowl (evening)

Semifinals

• Thursday, January 9, 2025: Capital One Orange Bowl (evening)
• Friday, January 10, 2025: Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (evening)

CFP National Championship

• Monday, January 20, 2025: Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia

2025 Season

First Round (On-Campus)

• Friday, December 19, 2025: One Game (evening)
• Saturday, December 20, 2025: Three Games (early afternoon, late afternoon and evening)

Quarterfinals

• Wednesday, December 31, 2025: Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic (evening)
• Thursday, January 1, 2026: Capital One Orange Bowl (early afternoon), Rose Bowl Game (late afternoon) and Allstate Sugar Bowl (evening)

Semifinals

• Thursday, January 8, 2026: Vrbo Fiesta Bowl (evening)
• Friday, January 9, 2026: Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl (evening)

CFP National Championship

• Monday, January 19, 2026: Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, Florida

The exact kickoff times for each game will be announced later.

On September 2, 2022, the CFP Board of Managers originally voted to expand the current four-team playoff into a 12-team playoff beginning with the 2026 season. Following additional discussions, it was then announced on December 1, 2022, that the expanded playoff format would begin with the 2024 season.

The field of 12 teams will be comprised of the six conference champions ranked highest by the selection committee (no minimum ranking requirement), plus the six highest-ranked other teams. The ranking of the teams will continue to be done by a selection committee whose size, composition, and method of selection will remain substantially unchanged from the current arrangement. The four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded one through four and each will receive a first-round bye. The other eight teams will play in the first round with the higher seeds hosting the lower seeds either on campus or at other sites designated by the higher-seeded institution.

T/F: Kaila Jackson named SEC Women’s Co-Freshman of the Week

Lady Bulldog sprinter Kaila Jackson has been named the Southeastern Conference Women’s Co-Freshman of the Week, according to a league announcement.

Jackson, a native of Redford, Mich., joins Matthew Boling (Men’s Runner of the Week), Marc Minichello (Men’s Field Athlete of the Week) and fellow first-year sprinter Autumn Wilson (Women’s Freshman of the Week) as Georgia’s league weekly winners this season.  In addition, Boling, Elija Godwin, Caleb Cavanaugh and Will Sumner earned Runner of the Week honors following their record-setting relay earlier this outdoor campaign.

Jackson clocked her third 100-meter dash time which would rank in the country’s top 25 this season with an 11.23 for sixth place at the LSU Invitational over the weekend.  She was also on the leadoff leg on Georgia’s 4x100m relay team that set the school record with the fourth-fastest time (42.94) in the nation this year and the 10^th-best time in the world in 2023.

Up Next: The Bulldogs are slated to travel to Baton Rouge, La., next week for the SEC Outdoor Championships, which will run on May 11-13.

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