No. 4 Georgia Rallies Past No. 8 Florida To Reach SEC Tournament Final

Saturday, May 23

Hoover, Ala.

1:00 p.m.

University of Georgia

45-12

Florida

39-19

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Florida	1	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	8	1
Georgia	0	0	0	3	1	0	2	2	X	8	12	1

26BSB Score - SEC Tournament - Georgia 8, Florida 7

No. 4 Georgia Rallies Past No. 8 Florida To Reach SEC Tournament Final

May 23, 2026 | Baseball

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HOOVER, ALA. – Fourth-ranked and SEC champion Georgia erased a 6-0 deficit to beat eighth-ranked Florida 8-7 Saturday to advance to the SEC Tournament Championship Game at the Hoover Met.

Georgia (45-12) will play Sunday at 2 p.m. ET against either No. 6 Auburn or No. 10 Arkansas. Those two teams are squaring off in the other semifinal Saturday.

Fast Facts

The SEC Champion Bulldogs have reached the SEC Tournament final for the first time since 1989 when it fell 2-1 to Auburn in Gainesville, Fla.
The Bulldogs recorded their largest comeback this season, falling behind 6-0 by the third inning. The previous largest deficit erased this year was five runs three times.
Junior right-hander Dylan Vigue, who had allowed just one home run in 53 innings this year, surrendered a pair to the Gators as they scored six runs on four hits in 2.2 innings before the Bulldogs went to the bullpen.
Junior Zach Brown provided 1.1 scoreless innings while senior graduate Caden Aoki tossed three innings and gave up one run on three hits with three strikeouts.
Junior Justin Byrd (4-2) pitched two scoreless innings with two strikeouts for the win.
Georgia trailed 6-0 going to the fourth until cutting the deficit in half. A sacrifice fly by Brennan Huson and later back-to-back doubles from Kolby Branch and Ryan Black made it 6-3.
Georgia trimmed it to 6-4 in the fifth as Daniel Jackson smacked a double and eventually scored on a wild pitch.
Following a one-hour rain delay, Florida went up 7-4 in the seventh and Georgia responded with a pair of runs on three hits including a two-run double by Kenny Ishikawa (3-4, 2 RBI).
In the eighth, Kolby Branch reached on a leadoff error and went to third on a double by Black. Georgia tied the game on a sacrifice fly by Tre Phelps and took its first lead on a sacrifice fly by Daniel Jackson. Byrd retired the Gators in order in the ninth
Georgia is now 2-2 against the Gators this year as Florida was the only team to claim a regular season series over the Bulldogs this year.

Key Quotes
Ike Cousins Head Baseball Coach Wes Johnson
On Saturday's comeback…
"Florida came out and got really good punch in on us. I thought Dylan Vigue actually threw the ball fine, left a few balls out over the plate. Tip your hat, they got off a couple of swings on some fastballs that we left in the middle of the zone, and that's what good teams and good players do. I thought we were able to preserver. Zach Brown came in and calmed the game down. We have a motto that we try not to panic at any time, and I just kept telling our guys, just stay with the process. We just to keep it right here.

"I think Caden did a nice job and then Justin Byrd came in and closed it out once we got the lead. From an offensive side of things, I think we leaned on 'em a lot all day. We actually won a game and didn't homer. It's just a running joke within our locker room. Kenny (Ishikawa), Ryan (Black), Tre (Phelps) all had professional at bats right there as did Daniel Jackson. I'm poud of our guys for hanging in there and not panicking and staying within our approach."

Tre Phelps, Jr., 3B
On the comeback to advance to the SEC Tournament Championship Game…
"I think it's just a sense of us all being excited to play with each other. We haven't been this far in this game in a long time, so just being able to be where our feet are and just enjoy it. Obviously, we had a rain delay and knowing that could either go one way or another. So just being able to come out punching. We had some great at-bats right after the rain delay, and then to be able to go into the bottom of the eighth and put together an inning like that with our lineup and have everyone come through was special."

Up Next
Georgia (45-12) plays for the SEC Tournament title Sunday at 2 p.m. ET against either No. 6 Auburn or No. 10 Arkansas. The SEC Tournament Championship game will be available on ABC Sports and the Georgia Bulldogs Sports Network.