ATHENS, Ga. \u2014 Fourth-ranked Georgia defeated Florida, 5-1, in the second game of the series at Foley Field on Saturday, to force the rubber match on Sunday.
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\nFast Facts<\/p>\n
Quotes #21 Jordy Oriach<\/a>| UTIL | Sr.\u00a0
\n\tJunior Dylan Vigue<\/a> (3-1) got the start on the mound for Georgia, (29-7, 11-3 SEC) allowing only two hits, while striking out seven. Senior Caden Aoki<\/a> received his fourth win of the season after relieving Vigue in the seventh, adding five strikeouts to end the game.\u00a0
\n\tJunior Tre Phelps<\/a> started things off early for the Dawgs with a leadoff triple, the second of his career, to extend his hitting streak to 10 games.
\n\tFlorida (26-10, 8-6 SEC) \u00a0tied the game 1-1 in the top of the third.
\n\tWith the game tied in the eighth inning, senior Daniel Jackson<\/a> kicked off the electric inning with a double. \u00a0
\n\tSenior Jordy Oriach<\/a> and Sophomore Henry Allen<\/a> singled to bring in two runs. \u00a0
\n\tSenior Ryan Black<\/a> hit back-to-back doubles in the seventh and eighth inning.\u00a0
\n\tJackson, Lujo, Ty Peeples<\/a>, and Allen scored to extend the Georgia lead to 5-1 going into the ninth.
\n\tSophomore Rylan Lujo<\/a> had a stellar performance with three hits in three consecutive at-bats, one run, and one stolen base, his fifth of the season.\u00a0
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\nIke Cousins Head Baseball Coach Wes Johnson<\/a>
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\nOn slowing the game down\u2026.\u00a0
\n“Part of slowing the game down is you’ll see guys in the batter’s box, and they’re trying to think. You can’t do it while you’re inside, you have to do it outside.”<\/p>\n
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\nOn the four-run eighth inning\u2026
\n“Our guys totally locked in. Our whole goal was to get [Liam] Peterson out of the game early because we knew that if he kept going, he was just going to keep going at us, and we just had to get to the pattern. That’s what we did.”\u00a0
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\n#27 Dylan Vigue<\/a>| RHP | Jr.\u00a0
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\nAbout \u00a0matchups on the mound \u2026.
\n“It’s definitely exciting. I love going against other top guys in the league. At the end of the day, it just comes down to focusing on the team and my own stuff. Whatever happens on the other side plays out during the game.”
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\nUp Next
\nGeorgia will return to Foley Field tomorrow for the final game of the series. First pitch is set for 12 p.m. The game will be live on SECN+ and the Georgia Bulldog Sports Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS, Ga. \u2014 Fourth-ranked Georgia defeated Florida, 5-1, in the second game of the series at Foley Field…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-228073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}