Georgia baseball wins first SEC championship since 2008
By David Wasson
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The fifth-ranked Georgia baseball team downed LSU 13-8 on Saturday to clinch the Bulldogs’ first SEC regular season championship since 2008.
Georgia (40-11 overall, 20-6 SEC) won its eighth straight game and fourth straight SEC series. LSU (29-13, 9-17) is now just 3-12 on the road heading into Sunday’s series finale (3 pm ET, SEC Network).
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“It’s massive. It’s so hard to win this league, and then win it outright,” Georgia coach Wes Johnson said. “It’s something that you want to check off on your list of things that you’ve ever accomplished. It’s right up there. It’s hard to do. It’s ten weekends of just meat house grinding.”
The Bulldogs rattled off 14 hits against the Tigers on Saturday night at Foley Field and scored eight runs in the second inning – the 11th time this season Georgia has scored more than seven runs in a single inning – to set an early tone. Kolby Branch went 3-for-4 with two runs scored, Michael O’Shaughnessy went 2-for-5 with five RBIs and two runs scored, and Jordy Oriach went 2-for-4 with three RBIs.
Cade Arrambide drove in three runs and Chris Stanfield smacked a pinch-hit three-run homer for LSU. Paul Farley (6-1) earned the victory for Georgia, while Marcos Paz (1-3) took the loss for LSU.
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An APSE national award-winning writer and editor, David Wasson has almost four decades of experience in the print journalism business in Florida and Alabama. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and several national magazines and websites. His Twitter handle: @JustDWasson.
