Athens — Since all things bad concerning Georgia athletics seem to get blamed on university president Michael Adams, there is little doubt he will have to bear the burden of Friday's baseball fiasco.

Not only was Adams in attendance for Lipscomb's 10-7 win over Georgia in the first round of the NCAA baseball tournament at Foley Field. He is an alumnus of Lipscomb. Chew on that conspiracy theorist.

It certainly will provide better grist than the actual game, which was remarkably unsavory for Bulldog fans.

Georgia, the No. 8 national seed and playing at Foley Field, lost to a team that finished third in the Atlantic Sun conference, and Lipscomb has never won a game in the NCAA tournament. Now the Bulldogs find themselves in the loser's bracket with no margin for error. They will play the loser of the Georgia Tech-Louisville game at 3 p.m. today.

"Now we are just trying to survive, and tomorrow is a much bigger day than today was," said Georgia coach David Perno.

Friday it was the big hit that hurt Georgia. Pitcher Stephen Dodson, who looked strong in his past two outings, started rough and never managed to polish his game or polish off the Lipscomb hitters.

Dodson (5-4) failed to go three up, three down in the four-plus innings he worked. By the time Dodson walked off the mound, Lipscomb had tagged him for eight earned runs.

"I felt comfortable," Dodson said. "They were just hitting them. It was one of those days where they just hit everything."

The Bulldogs, whose offense had been anemic in Hoover, Ala., last week in the SEC tournament, pushed four across in the bottom of the first for a 4-1 lead.

But that lead quickly dissipated.

The middle of Lipscomb's order, Caleb Joseph and Blake Bratcher each had a home run and combined for four RBI. In the bottom of the order, Ryan Wilkins, who came in hitting .213, had three RBI.

All the Lipscomb hitters worked over Dodson for seven runs in the next four innings. Bratcher had the biggest blow, a two-run shot over the right-field fence to cap a four-run inning.

"That one big inning kind of got us," Perno said. "We couldn't overcome it. That was the tough blow to overcome."

On the other side of things, Lipscomb starter Rex Brothers, who came in with a 5.69 ERA and 3-5 record, kept Georgia at bay after wobbling in the first inning.

Georgia received some punch from the return of Rich Poythress and Matt Cerione. All-American Gordon Beckham broke out of his struggles in the eighth as he put an RBI single into left to bring Georgia to within two, 9-7.

That rally, like Georgia's others after the first, quickly died when Poythress grounded into a double play to end the inning.

"The comebacker that [pitcher Kyle Tognazzini] got in that situation was probably the turning point in the game because they got a great opportunity to score there," said Lipscomb coach Jeff Forehand.

Lipscomb tacked on a run in the ninth. Georgia went down quickly inn its half of that inning.

And none of that can be blamed on Adams.

"I was cheering for the good guys," he said decked out in his Georgia red.