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Georgia downs Arkansas for sweep on back of Bulldog bats

Palmber-Thombsby:Palmer Thombs•04/22/23•

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What a weekend it was for the Georgia Baseball team. The Bulldogs took all three of their games against No. 5 Arkansas at Foley Field, winning the series finale in exciting fashion.

After the first two innings went scoreless, Georgia jumped on Arkansas in the third scoring two on a deep home run from Charlie Condon. The 475-foot shot to center field, his 18th of the season, scored him and Ben Anderson.

The Razorbacks didn’t go down without a fight though. Arkansas hit a pair of home runs themself in the fifth off of Liam Sullivan to take the lead. After Georgia tied it in the sixth with a sacrifice bunt from Sebastian Murrillo, Arkansas once again jumped on Georgia’s pitchers. Sullivan’s day was done after a leadoff walk having thrown 98 pitches, only allowing three hits and striking out eight. That runner eventually scored off of Kyle Greenler, as did one more to make it 5-3 Arkansas.

While Georgia got one in the seventh to bring the Bulldogs within one, the Razorbacks responded with three in the eighth. Coming up empty handed in the eighth themselves before sitting Arkansas down in order in the ninth, Georgia went into the bottom half of the last inning trailing by four.

Mason LaPlante led things off with a walk. He advanced to second on a single by Ben Anderson and third on another from Condon. Then, after a pitching change, Connor Tate tied the game with one swing of the bat, hitting a grand slam – his second in as many weekends also doing so against Florida. One pitch later, the game was over as Parks Harber sent the first pitch flying to center, walking things off to sweep a top-five opponent.

“It was just an awesome feeling,” Georgia head coach Scott Stricklin said. “This team deserves it. We had some tough sledding the first few weeks, but playing better, certainly. To get that sweep was huge for our out team. It’s hard to do that against anybody, I don’t care who you are playing, but to do in the league against a top five team, that’s really good baseball team. I’m just excited for the guys. Things weren’t going our way early, but we’ve still got four weekends left, and we put ourselves in a better conversation. We just have to keep the momentum going.”

With the sweep, their first of the season, Georgia moves to 23-17 on the season with a 7-11 record in the SEC. They’ve now won four in a row and seven of their last 10 – all against Power Five opponents. The Bulldogs are back in action on Tuesday night hosting Georgia State (6:00 p.m. ET, SECN+) before they go on the road to take on the defending National Champions Ole Miss Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Oxford.

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