After forcing a Game 3 on the final day of the Knoxville Super Regional, the Georgia softball team lost 2-1 Sunday in the final game to Tennessee.
Georgia finished 45-17, marking the 11th time that the Bulldogs have reached 40 or more wins under coach Lu Harris-Champer.
Tennessee (52-12) will move on the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City, facing Alabama on Thursday.
The Bulldogs won 1-0 in Game 2 as Erin Arevalo yielded just two hits in a complete game.
The Bulldogs got the only run in the third inning when junior Macie Couey singled and eventually scored on an error.
In the series clincher, the Lady Vols scored two in the sixth inning — ending a run of 14 scoreless innings against the Bulldogs.
Arevalo finished her senior season 27-9 as she gave up five hits with three strikeouts.
Georgia took a 1-0 lead in the fifth as freshman Gracie Goulder scored on a wild pitch. The Arizona native reached on a full-count walk before moving to second on a groundout, then taking third on a wild pitch.
UT came back in the sixth after back-to-back singles from Raven Chavanne and Lauren Gibson with one out opened the inning.
Madison Shipman followed with a fielder's choice to load the bases. Shelby Burchell’s RBI-single tied it, and sacrifice fly from to left from Kat Dotson made it 2-1.
Track and field
Two more individuals and two relay teams added to the list of Georgia’s qualifiers for the national finals during the last day at the NCAA East preliminaries in Jacksonville on Saturday.
Senior Nikola Lomnicka (hammer throw), sophomore Caleb Whitener (shot put), the men’s 400-meter relay team as well as the men’s 1,600 relay team earned places in the NCAA finals with top-12 finishes.
Georgia completed the East meet with 15 qualifiers for the NCAA finals, including junior Lucie Ondraschkova, who earlier automatically qualified in the heptathlon.
Meanwhile, Bates junior David Pless of Atlanta earned his sixth career All-America honor on Saturday, and his second of the NCAA Division III championships, by placing fourth in the shot put in Claremont, Calif. Pless was third in the discus Thursday.
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