Spring Break
Diamond Dogs end regular season at South Carolina
Issue date: 5/14/09 Section: Sports
The 15th-ranked Georgia baseball team closes out the regular season starting tonight with a three-game series at South Carolina.
The Bulldogs are second in the SEC East, two games behind Florida and a game ahead of third place South Carolina and enters the weekend fifth overall in the league while South Carolina is seventh. Both teams have clinched berths in next week's SEC Tournament.
The Bulldogs will try to win a series at South Carolina for the first time since 1994. The Gamecocks have won the last six series between the two schools in Columbia, taking two of three in 1996, 1998 and 2007 and earning sweeps in 2000, 2003 and 2005.
Georgia will again use the rotation of Trevor Holder (7-3, 4.73 ERA), Alex McRee (4-2, 4.35 ERA) and Justin Grimm (2-3, 4.36). South Carolina will counter with Sam Dyson (7-4, 5.70 ERA), Nolan Belcher (3-3, 5.48 ERA) and Blake Cooper (7-4, 4.74 ERA).
Georgia is coming off a 7-5 win over Georgia Tech Tuesday at Turner Field in Atlanta. The Bulldogs had a 5-2 lead, but Tech scored three in the seventh to pull even. Lyle Allen's two run single in the top of the ninth lifted the Bulldogs to the win in front of 24,665 fans, the sixth largest regular season crowd in college baseball history.
Game time is 7:05 p.m. for the series, and all three games will be televised by SportSouth.
The Bulldogs are second in the SEC East, two games behind Florida and a game ahead of third place South Carolina and enters the weekend fifth overall in the league while South Carolina is seventh. Both teams have clinched berths in next week's SEC Tournament.
The Bulldogs will try to win a series at South Carolina for the first time since 1994. The Gamecocks have won the last six series between the two schools in Columbia, taking two of three in 1996, 1998 and 2007 and earning sweeps in 2000, 2003 and 2005.
Georgia will again use the rotation of Trevor Holder (7-3, 4.73 ERA), Alex McRee (4-2, 4.35 ERA) and Justin Grimm (2-3, 4.36). South Carolina will counter with Sam Dyson (7-4, 5.70 ERA), Nolan Belcher (3-3, 5.48 ERA) and Blake Cooper (7-4, 4.74 ERA).
Georgia is coming off a 7-5 win over Georgia Tech Tuesday at Turner Field in Atlanta. The Bulldogs had a 5-2 lead, but Tech scored three in the seventh to pull even. Lyle Allen's two run single in the top of the ninth lifted the Bulldogs to the win in front of 24,665 fans, the sixth largest regular season crowd in college baseball history.
Game time is 7:05 p.m. for the series, and all three games will be televised by SportSouth.
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