Bulldogs Fall to Arkansas in Series Finale, 5-2

Sunday, April 18

Athens, Ga.

2:00 p.m.

University of Georgia

Arkansas

April 18, 2021 | Softball

Box Score

ATHENS, Ga. – The No. 20 Georgia softball team dropped a 5-2 decision to 10^th-ranked Arkansas Sunday afternoon at Jack Turner Stadium.

The Bulldogs scattered six hits, led by a two-hit game from sophomore Sydney Kuma. She and junior Savana Sikes each knocked solo home runs in the contest.

Georgia and Arkansas' combined seven runs all came via home runs, combining for five in the game.

Graduate Alley Cutting (6-4) suffered the loss in her start in the circle. Cutting worked two-thirds of an inning, giving up four runs. Graduate Mary Wilson Avant entered in the first and pitched the remainder of the game, fanning eight Razorbacks through six and a third innings.

Home runs by Braxton Burnside and Kayla Green put the Razorbacks out in front by four early in the first inning.

Sikes got one of the first inning runs backs in the bottom of the first with a leadoff home run to put the Bulldogs on the board, 4-1.

Both teams traded solo home runs in the third inning from Hannah McEwen and Kuma, bringing the score to 5-2 after three innings of play.

The 5-2 score would stand the remainder of the rest of the game as Arkansas would go on to pick up the victory and the series sweep of Georgia.

Georgia closes out its homestand Tuesday when top-ranked Oklahoma comes to Athens for a doubleheader. The twin bill is set to begin at 5 p.m. on SEC Network.

Head coach Lu Harris-Champer
On today's game against Arkansas…
"I was proud of the team's resilience. I think Arkansas's a really good team—got to give them credit for what they were able to do coming in here. But I am proud of the team for fighting. I though Mary (Wilson Avant) had a really good outing when she got into the game. I though Sydney Kuma had some excellent at-bats. Couple of really, really good defensive plays on the infield and as well in the outfield. Sydney Chambley had an amazing one at the wall in left, Jayda Kearney had a fantastic one going back in center, and C.J. Landrum did excellent on a crazy wild ball at the fence in right. Just proud of the defense for fighting. Just got to keep getting tougher."