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Henry Hunter blasts walk-off HR to secure series upset over no. 1 Arkansas

by:Alex Byington•04/13/25•

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Georgia's Henry Hunter (11) celebrates after scoring a home run during a NCAA baseball game against Kentucky on March 14, 2025.

Henry Hunter wasn’t leaving Foley Field without a series win over the country’s No. 1 team, and the Georgia Bulldogs slugger made sure to get it with one swing of his bat.

After the Bulldogs surrendered its game-long lead when top-ranked Arkansas tied it with a two-spot in the top of the 9th to force extra innings Sunday, Hunter drilled a two-out, 3-1 pitch from Razorbacks reliever Cole Gilber over the centerfield wall to secure a second-straight 7-6 win and the series victory.

Check out the blast below:

It was Hunter’s seventh home run this season after coming off the bench in extras.

“Henry, man, special player, special player,” Georgia head coach Wes Johnson told DawgsHQ after the game. “I think he just, he works hard. …The thing I think Henry does, he’s got a short memory. You’ve got to have it in our game. The minute you start thinking you’re really good and you quit working, and yeah, and then you keep dwelling on the past, good or bad, and that’s when you’re going to fall. One of the things Henry does is, he always believes he’s going to win, and he did.”

Georgia plated a three-run second inning to build an early 3-1 advantage on a two-run home run from Kolby Branch for the first of three bombs from the Bulldogs’ offense Sunday. A leadoff home run from Slate Alford stretched that lead to 4-1 in the third, but the Razorbacks would begin to chip away at that lead with a solo home run from Ryder Helfrick in the fourth.

It was the first of two home runs from Helfrick, whose second bomb set up the game-tying solo shot from Wehiwa Aloy with two outs in the top of the ninth inning to force extra innings.

The Bulldogs (32-6, 10-5 SEC) will next take on cross-state rival Georgia Tech in its annual rivalry game at Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, on Tuesday (7 pm ET). Georgia will return to SEC play next weekend with a three-game series against Vanderbilt in Nashville.