Georgia baseball put forth its defense for a spot in the NCAA baseball tournament with a 4-1 triumph over LSU in the opening round of the SEC competition on Tuesday at the Hoover Met in Alabama.
Mentor Scott Stricklin said entering the competition he felt the Bulldogs expected to beat the Tigers to get an everywhere offered in the 64-group NCAA Baseball Tournament. UGA had the No. 41 RPI in the country entering the evening.
Both No. 8-seed Georgia (31-23, 14-17 SEC) and No. 9-seed LSU (34-22, 13-18 SEC) didn’t burn through any time getting serious on Tuesday, scoring the entirety of their runs in the primary inning.
UGA’s Chaney Rogers’ conveyed the key hit, a three-RBI, two-out twofold that tore the game open at 4-1.
The Tigers had leaped to a 1-0 in the highest point of the main inning off UGA starter Luke Wagner.
LSU assaulted rapidly with two singles on the initial four pitches of the game and stacked the bases on a hit batsman.
Wagner settled down, inciting a RBI twofold play groundout prior to fanning the following hitter to resign the side minus any additional harm on the scoreboard.
Jaden Woods entered alleviation of Wagner with one out in the fourth inning and worked through the seventh, fanning five and not permitting any hits.
Ben Harris entered the eighth inning and things got fascinating.
Harris worked himself out of a bases-stacked circumstance subsequent to giving a walk, bloop single, and a hit batsman prior to going to his 94 MPH fastball to work out of the sketchy situation with a couple of strikeouts.
Georgia’s Jack Gowen acquired his first save of the period with a 1-2-3 10th.
The SEC has set at any rate eight groups in the NCAA competition every one of the previous three seasons, and the class was undeniably the awesome the country this season.
Georgia advances to the twofold end segment of the section with the success and next faces No. 1-positioned Arkansas at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
