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Georgia drops to No. 7 in latest D1 Baseball rankings with No. 1 Arkansas coming up

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Georgia dropped its first SEC series of the season over the weekend, causing it to drop four spots in the latest D1 Baseball rankings. The Bulldogs entered the three-game set with Texas ranked No. 3 nationally. After losing all three contests, falling to 29-5 on the season, they’re now ranked No. 7.

Arkansas is the new No. 1 team according to D1 Baseball. Texas’ sweep of the Bulldogs boosted it to No. 2. LSU is No. 3 followed by Clemson at No. 4 and Tennessee at No. 5. The Volunteers fell four spots after losing two of three to Texas A&M in Knoxville. Oregon State, Florida State, and UCLA, in that order, round out the top 10.

It doesn’t get any easier for Georgia. The top-ranked Razorbacks will come to Foley Field this weekend for a three-game series. Starting with game one of the Arkansas series, UGA will have 11 straight games against teams currently ranked inside the top 20 per D1 Baseball.

After playing the Razorbacks, UGA will take on in-state rival Georgia Tech, ranked No. 18, at Truist Park for a mid-week contest. It’ll travel to No. 17 Vanderbilt on Easter weekend for three-game before a mid-week clash at No. 4 Clemson. Then The Bulldogs will return home for three games against Oklahoma.

How Georgia dropped all three in Austin…

Texas was dominant on Friday night, beating Georgia 5-1. The Bulldogs jumped out to a 4-0 lead on Saturday but they fell apart in the middle and late innings, losing 7-4. Sunday was a back-and-forth contest where Wes Johnson’s crew just couldn’t come up with the big hit.

An opportunity to draw first blood on Sunday was squandered in the first inning when Ryan Black led the game off with a double. The Bulldogs got Black to third with one out but Robbie Burnett struck out and Black was later thrown out at the plate trying to score on a passed ball.

The Longhorns grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second but Georgia answered back in the third when Burnett drew a bases-loaded walk. That came with one out and Ryland Zaborowski came up next. He grounded into a 5-3 double play to end the threat

Black broke the tire with a solo homerun to right-center field in the top of the fifth inning but that lead didn’t last long. Texas got a two-run homerun from Jalin Flores in the bottom of the sixth to take a 3-2 lead.

Georgia went deep again to tie the game at three as Nolan McCarthy smacked his second dinger of the weekend. That tied the game at three with no outs in the top of the seventh and Texas turned to freshman lefty Dylan Volantis. He dominated the Bulldogs with four hitless, scoreless innings. Georgia managed two base runners — one via walk and another via error.

The Longhorns made those clean innings count in the bottom of the 10th when Rylan Galvan hammered a walk-off home run to send the humbled Bulldogs back to Athens.

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