After a weather delay pushed the final three innings to Saturday morning, Georgia cruised to an 18-2 win against LIU in Game 2 of the Athens Regional.
And in record-breaking fashion, too.
The Bulldogs hit nine home runs to break the previous single season school record of 151, set in 2024. They have now hit 158, the most in Division l this season. The nine home runs also ties a school record for homers in a game (for the second time this season, having also hit nine in the 24-6 win vs. Arkansas in April). It’s the most in an NCAA postseason game for the Bulldogs.
Georgia also has broken the single-season run total (542) set by the 1990 College World Series-winning Bulldogs, bringing their season total to 559.
The Bulldogs will face Liberty at 5 p.m. Saturday. Liberty defeated Boston College 4-3 in Game 1 of the Athens Regional on Friday. LIU faces a quick turnaround and will play an elimination game against Boston College at 12:06 p.m.
Saturday morning — with fresh players rotated in for most of Friday night’s lineup — Brennan Hudson, Ryan Wynn and Cole Johnson added solo shots, after the Bulldogs had already hit six home runs Friday. The game was suspended with Georgia leading 15-1 in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Friday, up 4-0, home runs from Jack Arcamone in the third inning and Wynn in the fourth, and Ryan Black (the record-breaking shot to give the Bulldogs 152), Daniel Jackson and Hudson in the fifth made it 12-0.
Rylan Lujo hit a two-run home run in the sixth to make it 15-1 before the torrential downpour suspended the game
All in all, Georgia tallied 20 hits to LIU’s two, hit .600 with runners in scoring position and had players hit by a pitch six times, with Hudson hit three times and third baseman Tre Phelps hit twice. Hudson went 2-for-2 with two home runs and two RBIs, and Wynn went 4-for-5 with two home runs, four RBIs and one HBP.
Friday night starter Joey Volchko gets the win, giving up zero earned runs on zero hits, striking out 10 and walking four in six innings pitched.
“I thought when Joey came out yesterday, he was really good and set the tone early,” Georgia coach Wes Johnson said. “Anytime you’re in a regional, it doesn’t matter who you’re playing, there needs to be a lot of energy to start the first game or you’ll see things get sideways. I thought Joey did a phenomenal job of coming in and attacking the strike zone there.”
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