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Florida State breaks open game late, tops Diamond Dogs 8-2 at NCAA Regional
Bulldogs must win three straight to advance to Super Regional
Issue date: 5/29/09 Section: Sports
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida State broke open a two-run game with four runs in the eighth inning and defeated Georgia 8-2 in the winner's bracket game of the NCAA Tallahassee Regional Saturday at Dick Howser Stadium.
The Bulldogs (38-23) will face Ohio State in an elimination game Sunday at noon on ESPNU. The winner will face Florida State (44-16) at 4 p.m. Georgia, which beat Ohio State 24-8 on Friday, needs three straight wins to advance to the Super Regional.
"Sean Gilmartin did a great job today," Georgia coach David Perno said. "We had no consistency offensively, and that has been our bugaboo all season long. "Trevor Holder was as good as he's been. He's been our guys for four years now, and he had them in the right game and the right situations. The bottom line is we didn't do enough offensively to back him up."
Florida State took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on a sacrifice fly by Jason Stidham. The Seminoes brought seven batters to the plate and Georgia starter Trevor Holder tossed 35 pitches in the inning.
Florida State scored three two-out runs in the second inning highlighted by a two-run double by Mike McGee to take a 4-0 lead.
Gilmartin retired the first 10 Georgia batters until Peter Verdin doubled to right center with one out in the fourth. Two batters later, Rich Poythress hit his fourth home run of the regional to cut the lead to 4-2.
After the Seminoles scored their fourth run of the game in the second inning, Holder sat down 15 of the next 17 including a string of 12 straight. After 53 pitches in the first two innings, he threw 55 over the next four.
Joey Lewis reached second on an error with one out in the sixth, but Gilmartin retired the next two batters. Michael Demperio singled with one out in the eighth and a two-out single by Verdin put the tying run aboard, but Bryce Massanari popped out to end the inning.
The Seminoles pulled away with four runs in the eighth highlighted by a three-run triple by Stidham to make it 8-2.
Holder (7-5) took the loss despite holding Florida State to five runs and tying his season high with seven strikeouts in 7.1 innings.
Gilmartin (12-3) tossed a complete game and held the Bulldogs to five hits.
Georgia needs two wins on Sunday to force a final game on Monday. The Bulldogs have won their last eight NCAA Regional elimination games.
- Georgia Sports Communications
The Bulldogs (38-23) will face Ohio State in an elimination game Sunday at noon on ESPNU. The winner will face Florida State (44-16) at 4 p.m. Georgia, which beat Ohio State 24-8 on Friday, needs three straight wins to advance to the Super Regional.
"Sean Gilmartin did a great job today," Georgia coach David Perno said. "We had no consistency offensively, and that has been our bugaboo all season long. "Trevor Holder was as good as he's been. He's been our guys for four years now, and he had them in the right game and the right situations. The bottom line is we didn't do enough offensively to back him up."
Florida State took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on a sacrifice fly by Jason Stidham. The Seminoes brought seven batters to the plate and Georgia starter Trevor Holder tossed 35 pitches in the inning.
Florida State scored three two-out runs in the second inning highlighted by a two-run double by Mike McGee to take a 4-0 lead.
Gilmartin retired the first 10 Georgia batters until Peter Verdin doubled to right center with one out in the fourth. Two batters later, Rich Poythress hit his fourth home run of the regional to cut the lead to 4-2.
After the Seminoles scored their fourth run of the game in the second inning, Holder sat down 15 of the next 17 including a string of 12 straight. After 53 pitches in the first two innings, he threw 55 over the next four.
Joey Lewis reached second on an error with one out in the sixth, but Gilmartin retired the next two batters. Michael Demperio singled with one out in the eighth and a two-out single by Verdin put the tying run aboard, but Bryce Massanari popped out to end the inning.
The Seminoles pulled away with four runs in the eighth highlighted by a three-run triple by Stidham to make it 8-2.
Holder (7-5) took the loss despite holding Florida State to five runs and tying his season high with seven strikeouts in 7.1 innings.
Gilmartin (12-3) tossed a complete game and held the Bulldogs to five hits.
Georgia needs two wins on Sunday to force a final game on Monday. The Bulldogs have won their last eight NCAA Regional elimination games.
- Georgia Sports Communications
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Jessi
posted 5/30/09 @ 11:04 AM EST
Guess that UGA bat speed was just too much for "the" Ohio State to handle
HURRAY
posted 6/01/09 @ 12:28 PM EST
This just goes to prove what I thought and expressed the entire year about Georgia baseball - they did not even have a little, tiny chance to win a national title
Everyone on campus was going crazy when they jumped up to No. (Continued…)
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