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Kerpics Shuts Out Aggies, 8-0; Georgia Sweeps Road Series
March 19, 2023 | Softball
BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The 18th-ranked Georgia softball team recorded a series sweep of No. 24 Texas A&M Sunday, run ruling the Aggies in six innings, 8-0.
The Bulldogs improve to 24-6 on the season and 5-1 in SEC play. Georgia's last SEC sweep was the final series of 2019 against then-No. 15 Ole Miss in Athens. The last time the Bulldogs swept an SEC opponent on the road was 2016 at then-No. 14 Missouri.
Junior Madison Kerpics (9-4) pitched six shutout innings, allowing just one hit. She fanned eight batters in the game, walking none. Kerpics held the Aggies hitless through three and a third innings.
Georgia's eight runs came on eight hits, led by a two-hit, five-RBI performance from freshman Jaydyn Goodwin. She homered and had a double. Sydney Chambley also had two hits in the game.
Chambley and Sydney Kuma each singled with one out in the top of the second. Goodwin stepped in and blasted a home run to right center to give Georgia the 3-0 lead. It was the second home run of her rookie season.
Dallis Goodnight drew a two-out walk in the fifth. She raced around the bases and scored on a long single to the wall in right from Sara Mosley, widening the lead to 4-0.
A four spot in the sixth inning widened the Bulldog lead to eight. Jaiden Fields led off the inning with a solo home run, her sixth homer of the season. Following a double by Lyndi Rae Davis, Chambley traded places with a ground-rule double to plate pinch runner Hayley Eaton and make it 6-0. Kuma reached on dropped fly ball by the right fielder then both Chambley and Kuma scored on a double to the left-center gap off the bat of Goodwin, her fourth and fifth RBI of the game, bringing the lead to 8-0.
Kerpics retired the Aggies in order in the bottom of the sixth to end the contest early for the Dawgs and secure the series sweep.
Georgia hosts in-state foe Kennesaw State Wednesday at Jack Turner Stadium to open an eight-game homestand. Wednesday's game will air on SEC Network at 7 p.m.
The Bulldogs improve to 24-6 on the season and 5-1 in SEC play. Georgia's last SEC sweep was the final series of 2019 against then-No. 15 Ole Miss in Athens. The last time the Bulldogs swept an SEC opponent on the road was 2016 at then-No. 14 Missouri.
Junior Madison Kerpics (9-4) pitched six shutout innings, allowing just one hit. She fanned eight batters in the game, walking none. Kerpics held the Aggies hitless through three and a third innings.
Georgia's eight runs came on eight hits, led by a two-hit, five-RBI performance from freshman Jaydyn Goodwin. She homered and had a double. Sydney Chambley also had two hits in the game.
Chambley and Sydney Kuma each singled with one out in the top of the second. Goodwin stepped in and blasted a home run to right center to give Georgia the 3-0 lead. It was the second home run of her rookie season.
Dallis Goodnight drew a two-out walk in the fifth. She raced around the bases and scored on a long single to the wall in right from Sara Mosley, widening the lead to 4-0.
A four spot in the sixth inning widened the Bulldog lead to eight. Jaiden Fields led off the inning with a solo home run, her sixth homer of the season. Following a double by Lyndi Rae Davis, Chambley traded places with a ground-rule double to plate pinch runner Hayley Eaton and make it 6-0. Kuma reached on dropped fly ball by the right fielder then both Chambley and Kuma scored on a double to the left-center gap off the bat of Goodwin, her fourth and fifth RBI of the game, bringing the lead to 8-0.
Kerpics retired the Aggies in order in the bottom of the sixth to end the contest early for the Dawgs and secure the series sweep.
Georgia hosts in-state foe Kennesaw State Wednesday at Jack Turner Stadium to open an eight-game homestand. Wednesday's game will air on SEC Network at 7 p.m.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Kerpics, Madison (9-4)
L: Ackerman, Shaylee (4-3)
Batting:
2B: Davis, Lyndi Rae 1 ; Chambley, Sydney 1 ; Goodwin, Jaydyn 1
HR: Fields, Jaiden 1 ; Goodwin, Jaydyn 1
RBI: Mosley, Sara 1 ; Fields, Jaiden 1 ; Chambley, Sydney 1 ; Goodwin, Jaydyn 5
Base Running:
RUNS: Goodnight, Dallis 1 ; Fields, Jaiden 1 ; Eaton, Hayley 1 ; Chambley, Sydney 2 ; Kuma, Sydney 2 ; Goodwin, Jaydyn 1
SB: Kearney, Jayda 1
Base Running:
SB: Cannon, Trinity 1
HBP: Cannon, Trinity 1 ; Coleman, Gracyn 1
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