Athens, Ga \u2013 Georgia found a way on Sunday. The Bulldogs closed out a dominant four-game series sweep with a tight 4-3 win over Oakland at Foley Field on Saturday. <\/p>\n
The first three games weren\u2019t competitive affairs. Georgia outscored Oakland 44-6 between Friday\u2019s game and the doubleheader on Saturday. <\/p>\n
Georgia got big hits from two of the hottest hitters on the roster at the start of the 2026 season. Tre Phelps and Daniel Jackson carried the offensive torch on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Phelps hit a two-run home run to tie the game in the bottom of the third. Jackson\u2019s solo shot broke the tie a few pitches later.<\/p>\n
That home run extended Phelps\u2019 streak to 26 games. It was also his fifth on the season already. Jackson\u2019s home run was his ninth on the season. He hit four this weekend alone. <\/p>\n
Wes Johnson is taking note of Daniel Jackson\u2019s hot start<\/p>\n
Wes Johnson was complimentary of Jackson\u2019s approach and ability as a hitter on Friday night. His comments held true even more so on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably his ability to slow it down (has helped him the most), he\u2019s learned how to slow the game down a little\u00a0more now,\u201d Johnson said after Friday\u2019s game.\u00a0\u201cYou look, he can get a little antsy at times at the plate, trying to do too much. I think what you\u2019re seeing is him maturing as a hitter.\u00a0Knowing what success is for each individual guy is really hard.\u00a0Daniel\u2019s so strong, he can hit a ball 108, and we all go, ooh, it\u2019s 108. But he knows when he\u2019s having success at the plate.\u00a0Sometimes for him, being able to go backside as he did there,\u00a0that last at bat, it\u2019d only be 90.\u00a0That\u2019s success for him.\u00a0He didn\u2019t always know that.\u00a0I think those are things that are really helping him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Geogia got an insurance run in the bottom of the seventh on a Henry Allen RBI single. That was enough to pull away.<\/p>\n
Georgia\u2019s pitching stands tall<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs got 4.1 innings from starter Dylan Vigue. That earned him his second win of the season. Vigue struck out two, allowed six hits and two runs. <\/p>\n
Georgia\u2019s bullpen found itself in a few tricky spots throughout the day. They held Oakland\u2019s offense to one run and allowed six hits over the last 4.2.<\/p>\n
Georgia leaned on Grant Edwards, Teddy Brennan, Thomas Ellisen and Justin Byrd to cover the back end of the game. <\/p>\n
What\u2019s Next?<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs will have a heavy mid-week slate this week. Georgia travels to Kennessaw State for the first road game of 2026. The Bulldogs will return to Foley Field on Wednesday to host Western Carolina at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athens, Ga \u2013 Georgia found a way on Sunday. The Bulldogs closed out a dominant four-game series sweep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-200038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}