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Rain Halts Georgia-Princeton Opener
February 24, 2023 | Baseball
ATHENS – The series opener featuring Georgia versus Princeton was suspended in the top of the sixth inning due to rain Friday at Foley Field. The Bulldogs lead 7-2. Play will resume Saturday at 1 p.m. with game two of the series to follow 45 minutes after the completion of the opener.
There will be no admission for the completion of the first game. However, Foley Field will be cleared once the opening game of the series is final. Fans will need a Saturday ticket to attend game two of the series.
Fans holding tickets for Sunday's action will be treated to a doubleheader. Sunday's action will begin at 11 a.m. and the first game will be a seven-inning contest. If this game goes extra innings, then the final game of the series will be seven innings. If not, the final game of the series will be a nine-inning contest.
In Friday's first six innings of action, three home runs highlighted the Bulldogs' offense to help build a 7-2 advantage. Redshirt freshman Charlie Condon picked up his first career home run in the second inning. Junior Corey Collins and graduate Connor Tate followed suit with homers of their own.
Junior Jaden Woods got the start for Georgia and registered a career-high 11 strikeouts over 4.2 innings in a planned split start. Freshman Jarvis Evans made his debut and allowed a pair of home runs in one inning of relief. Senior Pace Mercer came on for Evans with one on and two outs in the sixth when play was halted due to rain.
In the first, Georgia junior Parks Harber extended his hitting steak to nine games with a two-out single. Condon stepped into the box and blasted his first career home run to left center for a 2-0 lead. Collins smashed a solo shot in the second. With one out in the bottom of the third, Tate was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on a base hit Condon for a 4-0 lead.
A lead-off double from Cole Wagner bounced off the right field wall to start the Bulldogs' offense in the fourth. A fly out from Collins advanced Wagner to scoring position on third. With two outs, junior Sebastian Murillo sent a single to right field to score Wagner to make it 5-0.
Princeton put a run on the board in the fifth as Noah Garnet hit a solo homer. Georgia answered with two runs. A double from graduate Ben Anderson set up Tate who crushed his first home run of the season, the 28th of his career, over the left field wall to put the Bulldogs up 7-1. Princeton got a solo home run from Matt Scannell to close the gap to 7-2.
