Home Runs Aplenty as Missouri Ties Series, 6-2

Friday, April 15

Columbia, Mo.

1:00 p.m.

University of Georgia

34-9, 8-6

Missouri

25-16, 5-8

Georgia

Mizzou

April 15, 2022 | Softball

Box Score

COLUMBIA, Mo. – No. 14/13 Georgia softball fell to the Missouri Tigers in game two of the weekend series Friday afternoon, 6-2, at the Mizzou Softball Stadium.

The two teams combined for seven home runs as all eight runs were scored via the long ball.

Georgia (34-9, 8-6) was limited to three hits in the game. Junior Sara Mosley and sophomore Jayda Kearney each provided a solo home run and freshman Lyndi Rae Davis contributed a two-out double in the seventh.

Senior Lauren Mathis (3-3) worked five innings in her start, allowing four runs on six hits. She fanned two Tigers and did not surrender a walk in her outing. Britton Rogers worked an inning out of the pen Friday.

Mosley put the Bulldogs ahead in the first inning with a two-out solo home run down the left field line, 1-0.

Missouri (25-16, 5-8) answered back in the bottom of the inning with a leadoff home run to tie the game at 1-1.

Kearney's 10^th home run of the season put the Bulldogs back in front in the top of the second, 2-1.

The Tigers kept the trend going with a leadoff home run in the bottom of the inning to re-tie the game at 2-all.

The 2-2 tie stood for two and a half innings until back-to-back two-out home runs put the Tigers ahead 4-2 in the bottom of the fifth. A two-out pinch hit two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth added to the lead, 6-2.

Georgia attempted to mount a last-out comeback in the seventh on a two-out double from Davis and a pinch hit walk to Mackenzie Puckett, but the attempt fell short as Georgia fell 6-2.

The rubber game of the series is slated for 6 p.m., ET, Saturday evening in Columbia. The contest will air nationally on ESPN2.