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FGCU FGCU 4-6
10
Winner Georgia Bulldogs UGA 11-1
FGCU FGCU
4-6
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Final
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Georgia Bulldogs UGA
11-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
FGCU FGCU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Georgia Bulldogs UGA 1 1 2 4 1 0 1 10 13 0

W: Zach Brown (2-1) L: Eldem, Levent (0-2)

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FGCU FGCU 4-7
9
Winner Georgia Bulldogs UGA 12-1
FGCU FGCU
4-7
8
Final
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Georgia Bulldogs UGA
12-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
FGCU FGCU 6 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 9 3
Georgia Bulldogs UGA 0 0 2 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 9 9 0

W: Brian Curley (1-0) L: Dempsey, Evan (0-1)

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Game Recap: Baseball | | by Shane Harvell

Baseball drops twin bill at No. 6 Georgia

The Florida Gulf Coast University baseball team dropped a pair of games Saturday, 10-0 and 9-8 to No. 6 Georgia in a doubleheader at Foley Field in Athens, Georgia.

FGCU is now 4-7 on the season, while Georgia improved to 12-1. The Eagles are back in action tomorrow as they face Georgia in the final game of the four-game series. First pitch is set for 1 p.m. ET.

Game 1: FGCU 0, Georgia 10 (7 innings/run-rule)

Georgia wasted no time getting on the board as they took an early 1-0 lead off a home run to right in the bottom of the first. 

The Eagles looked to tie things up in the second when Jaret Nelson walked on five pitches with one out, but the Georgia pitching sat the next two batters down in order.

Georgia added a run in the second, two in the third, and four in the fourth to go up 8-0.

The Bulldog pitchers held the Eagles hitless for four straight innings, but Javier Gorostola broke up the no-hitter when he doubled to right field in the top of the fifth. He later moved to third before the inning ended.

Going into the sixth inning trailing 9-0, Harrison Povey singled with two down before a ground out to third ended the frame.

Georgia scored the final run of the game in the bottom of the seventh to secure a 10-0 run-rule win.

Gorostola finished going 1-for-2 with a walk and a double in the contest, while Povey went 1-for-3. 

FGCU starter Levent Eldem took the loss to fall to 0-2 on the season. He scattered nine hits in four innings while allowing eight runs and striking out two.

Game 2: FGCU 8, Georgia 9 (10 innings) 

FGCU jumped out to an early 6-0 lead in the top of the first. It all started when Evan Dempsey and Aidan Corn both walked. Following a strike out, Robert Moya's RBI single to center scored Dempsey from second to make it, 1-0. Corn moved up 90 feet on the play. Both Corn and Moya scored off Gorostola's three-run home run to left to push the lead to 4-0. Nelson singled to center, then stole second. He later scored off of Jon Embry's two-run shot to left to make it 6-0 before the inning ended.

Georgia pushed a pair of runs across on two hits in the bottom of the third to cut the lead to four.

The Eagles responded in the top of the fourth as they scored a pair when Harrison Povey hit a two-run shot to right field to score Dempsey to make it, 8-2.

The Bulldogs chipped away at the lead as it scored two runs in the fifth and sixth innings to trail 8-6 going into the final inning. In the seventh, with one on and one down, the Bulldogs connected for a two-run home to tie the game at eight and forced extra innings.

Both teams went scoreless in the first two extra innings, and the Bulldogs held the Eagles scoreless in the top of the tenth. Georgia scored the winning run in its half of the tenth off a single to secure the 9-8 walkoff victory, for the second time in the series. UGA walked off the Eagles in game one on Friday, 10-9. Nine runs is the most that Georgia has surrendered all year, and FGCU held a 5-0 lead in the game.

FGUC's Gorostola ended game two going 2-for-5 with three RBIs, a run scored and a home run. Fellow teammate Dempsey was the only other player to tally a pair of hits, going 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored. 

Embury and Povey each finished with a home run and two RBIs for FGCU.

Starting pitcher Chris Diaz got his first start on the bump today. He went four innings, allowing three hits and two runs while striking out a team-high four.

Dempsey, who started the game in left field, moved to the mound late in the game. He went two-thirds of the final inning, allowing a hit, a walk and recorded a strikeout in the loss.
 

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