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Monday, April 14, 2008
Another weekend, another SEC sweep
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Having swept series against nationally ranked SEC opponents on consecutive weekends, the 11th-ranked Diamond Dogs are definitely turning heads in college baseball.
My daughter and I were in the crowd at Foley Field (which surprisingly wasn’t full despite glorious weather) as David Perno’s team took their third straight from ninth-ranked Kentucky on Sunday.
Georgia was down 4-1 at one point, having started off a little shaky, with starter Nathan Moreau pulled after three innings. But when you’ve got a bullpen like the Dogs have, that’s not a problem. The Bulldog relievers gave up only one run on two hits in six innings, with hard-throwing, long-haired closer Joshua Fields entering in the ninth to tie Georgia great Cris Carpenter for career saves.
Georgia’s bats didn’t do much early but that changed after SEC homerun leader Gordon Beckham slammed his 15th of the season with a man on base.
The Dogs are now 23-12 overall and sit atop the SEC with a 12-3 league record.
They play at home Tuesday and Wednesday against East Tennessee State and Georgia State (now if they could just figure out how to avoid those midweek losses to nonconference opponents!) before traveling to LSU for a weekend series. Their next SEC homestand is May 2-4 against Ole Miss.
Maybe it was the Masters that kept some folks home Sunday, but with the Dogs playing league-leading baseball, there’s no excuse for Foley Field not to be packed for the rest of its weekend games this season.
BULLDOG BITES: Speaking of packed houses, the Steg should be rocking April 24-26 as Suzanne Yoculan’s Gym Dogs will be hosting the NCAA championships and going for their fourth straight national title. Some football-centric UGA fans may not recognize what a dynasty Yoculan and soon-to-be successor Jay Clark have built at UGA, but there’s a very vocal and active fan following for this team that regularly fills the Coliseum. The Gym Dogs are some of our top athletes and deserve more woofs from the Bulldog Nation at large. … The UGA volleyball program was awarded the Commissioner’s Cup on Saturday for winning the inaugural Southeastern Conference Coaches Beach Volleyball Championships. All of the SEC’s 11 volleyball schools took part in the Beach Volleyball Championships, the first-ever beach volleyball tournament held by a Division I conference.
