Georgia Baseball takes series over No. 18 Tennessee

Georgia Baseball secured a major series win on Sunday, taking down No. 18 Tennessee this weekend at Foley Field. After a strong pitching performance on Saturday helped claim a 3-1 win over the Volunteers, the Bulldogs won a slug-fest on Sunday with each team having at least 10 hits.

Leading the way for Georgia – as has been the case many times this season – was redshirt freshman Charlie Condon. He hit a home run on Saturday to tie the Georgia freshman record. On Sunday, he sent two balls out of the park to tie the SEC freshman record of Pittsburgh Pirates No. 2 overall pick Pedro Alvarez, one that’s stood since 2006. With at least eight games to go, there’s a strong chance it goes down at the hands of Condon.

Condon wasn’t the only Bulldog to go deep on Sunday though. In fact, he wasn’t even the first. Ben Anderson led the game off with a home run to make it 1-0. It was his fourth leadoff home run of his career. Later in the first, Connor Tate hit his eighteenth double of the season to right field followed by a single from Parks Harber to make it 2-0.

Georgia kept it rolling in the second. Sebastian Murrillo hit a single, advanced to send on a sacrifice bunt and scored on a hit off the bat of Dwight Allen. While Tennessee scored in the top of the third to respond, Condon hit his first home run of the day in the bottom half of the inning to regain the three-run lead.

The Volunteers didn’t go down without a fight. In the fourth, they tied it 4-4. The Bulldogs would take the lead in the fifth though with Condon’s second long ball of the day, a two-run shot that also scored Anderson. Harber followed with a two-run blast of his own to extend Georgia’s lead to 8-4. Another Anderson RBI made it 9-4 in the eighth, the game’s final score.

“We have a lot of fight and a lot of pride,” Georgia head coach Scott Stricklin said. “When things don’t go your way, what are you going to do? You can’t just give up and quit. You have to fight a little bit, and these guys have done that. We have played good baseball these last few weeks. We won three out of our last four series. We are getting closer to where we need to be, but we still have work to do. I am really proud of these kids.”

“It’s just resiliency all the way through the staff and the lineup,” Condon added. “Everyone is getting their job done right now and having confidence that the guy next to you is also going to do the same thing is the key.”

Condon and company, now 27-21 on the season and 10-14 in SEC play, are back in action on Tuesday hosting USC Upstate. First pitch is set for 6:00 p.m. ET. Then, the Bulldogs hit the road over the weekend up to Columbia, Missouri to take on the Eastern Division cellar dweller Tigers. Missouri took two of three from Ole Miss this weekend though to follow up a midweek win over Kansas coming into the contest.

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