No. 3 Georgia Beats No. 11 Auburn 4-1

Friday, March 28

Athens, Ga.

6:00 p.m.

University of Georgia

26-2, 6-1

Auburn

20-6, 4-3

Auburn

Georgia Bulldogs

March 28, 2025 | Baseball

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ATHENS, Ga. – Third-ranked Georgia beat No. 11 Auburn 4-1 in front of a sellout crowd of 3,633 Friday at Foley Field.

Fast Facts

Senior Devin Obee (2-4, HR, 2 RBI) put Georgia on the board with a two-run shot in the second inning. His seventh blast of the season went for 454 feet, the second-longest home run on the team this season.
Sophomore Dan Jackson (1-3, HR, 2 RBI) hit his seventh home run of the season, a two-run blast in the fourth inning. The Bulldogs lead the NCAA in home runs with 76.
Graduate Nolan McCarthy was on base for both home runs tonight by way of a single in the first inning and a hit-by-pitch in the fourth inning.
Junior Kolten Smith (2–0) secured the win with a season-high eight strikeouts in five scoreless innings. Graduate Charlie Goldstein started things off with three scoreless innings, while senior Brian Zeldin and redshirt-junior DJ Radtke finished out the ninth. Radtke collected his second save with a pair of strikeouts.
The Bulldog pitchers combined for 14 strikeouts.

Key Quotes

Ike Cousins Head Baseball Coach Wes Johnson
On the pitching performance tonight…
"We've been starving for it. To put the zeros up as long as we did tonight against the best offense we've seen this year was a credit to him (Kolten Smith). Even Charlie (Goldstein) he put himself in some jams, but executed those off-speed pitches."

Devin Obee | Sr. | OF
On what it's like playing in the SEC…
"The energy. It's just different. Playing in the ACC, you had a lot of fans, a lot of energy and stuff like that, but the SEC is just a different feel. The pregame rituals and just everything. It's hard to describe. You just feel a different energy when you're in the stadium".

Kolten Smith | Jr. | RHP
On what was going through his head tonight:
"Yeah, I mean, tensions were high. It's a Friday night game in this league. So there's obviously a lot of meaning behind that. So, just getting every out I could, I was just getting fired up for the team."

Up Next
Due to inclement weather in the forecast for Sunday, third-ranked Georgia (26-2, 6-1 SEC) will wrap up the series with No. 11 Auburn (19-6, 4-3 SEC) Saturday with a doubleheader. The first game will be at 11 a.m. (SECN+). Th final game of the series will begin at 4:02 p.m. (SEC Network).

Fans holding tickets for Sunday's game will be admitted to the 11 a.m. game. After the 11 a.m. contest concludes, the stadium will be cleared. Fans holding tickets for the regularly scheduled 4 p.m. game Saturday will be admitted to this game.