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SB: Georgia’s Season Ends with Sunday Loss
SOFTBALL | at (3) Florida | L, 5-2
Winning pitcher: Keagan Rothrock (16-6)
Losing Pitcher: Lilli Backes (16-11)
Season Record: 35-23, 7-16 SEC
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Georgia softball team fell to third-seeded Florida on Sunday, 5-2, ending its 2025 season in the NCAA Super Regional.
Georgia concludes the season 35-22 in its 14th NCAA Super Regional appearance and third straight.
FAST FACTS
- Randi Roelling pitched 4.2 innings out of the pen after entering the game in the first inning. She pitched three scoreless innings before Florida hit two two-run home runs in the fifth inning.
- Lilli Backes suffered the loss after Florida took a 1-0 lead in the first. Destin Howard and Rachel Gibson also pitched in relief.
- Down 5-0, Jaydyn Goodwin hit a two-run home run in the top of the seventh to break up the shutout. It was her team-leading 12th home run of the season.
- Dallis Goodnight, Esther White, Mua Williams, and Goodwin all had a hit in the game.
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KEY QUOTES
Georgia Head Coach Tony Baldwin
Opening statement…
“Hats off and congrats to Florida. Today, they capitalized better than we did. They’ve had a great season. They have a great team. They’re well coached. It’s a great environment. This is what college softball’s all about. Every little girl should aspire, at some level, to be able to invest in something enough that gives you this range of emotion. I’m disappointed that it ended, but I’m super thankful that we went on this journey this season. Team 29 for us represents what college softball should be all about, and I’m very thankful for that.”
On this year’s senior class…
“I think this year was as good of leadership, and I hate comparing teams because that makes it sound like some sort of shortcoming in another team, what I can say with this team is that senior group really led our culture in our locker room. We’ve talked about this before, we’ve taken our share of punches and shots and all of the setbacks and we’ve shown up every week to start the new week with a fresh mindset that this week’s going to be our week and you don’t get that without great senior people in your room. We had some shortcomings this year, but the reason that we played for a chance to go to the World Series today was because of the people we have in a room, and I’ll go to bat with that any time.”
BSB: UGA Will Host NCAA Regional
-For the second consecutive year and eighth time in school history, the University of Georgia will serve as one of 16 regional hosts for the 2025 NCAA Baseball Tournament, the selection committee announced Sunday night.
The three other teams that will join the Bulldogs at the NCAA Athens Regional will be announced on Monday, May 26 at noon ET on ESPN2 when the entire field of 64 and the top 16 national seeds are released. Regional competition is scheduled to take place at Foley Field from Friday-Monday, May 30-June 2. After the ESPN family of networks set the television matchups, a complete Athens Regional schedule will be announced Monday.
Third-ranked Georgia has posted a 42-15 record including 18-12 in the rugged Southeastern Conference in the second season under Ike Cousins head baseball coach Wes Johnson. Also, Johnson becomes the first UGA baseball coach to take his first two teams to the NCAA Tournament. His combined mark of 85-32 (35-25 SEC) is the most overall victories and SEC wins by a coach in their first two seasons in Georgia baseball history.
The Bulldogs will be making their 15th appearance in an NCAA Regional. The Bulldogs won their 2024 NCAA Regional to make their first Super Regional since 2008 and then fell a game short of advancing to the College World Series (CWS). Georgia’s last trip to the CWS came in 2008 when it finished as the national runner-up.
Ticket Information
Any available all-session or single game tickets for the 2025 NCAA Athens Regional will go on sale ONLINE ONLY starting Tuesday, May 27th at 7 p.m. at https://georgiadogs.evenue.net/list/BBS.
Parking Information
There is no reserved parking. Parking is available in the outfield commuter lot and adjacent parking decks on campus.
NCAA Tournament Information
The field of 64 teams are placed in 16 different four-team regionals with teams seeded one through four to compete in a double-elimination format. The 16 regional winners advance to a best-of-three Super Regional, and the teams that are top eight national seeds usually play host to that if they win their regional.Super Regionals are held June 6-8 or June 7-9. The eight winners of the Super Regionals advance to the College World Series, slated for June 13-23 in Omaha, Neb.
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