Golden's Three Hit Day Not Enough on Saturday versus Georgia

Saturday, February 25

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Georgia

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Photo by: Frank Fortune - Georgia Southern Athletics

Golden's Three Hit Day Not Enough on Saturday versus Georgia

2/25/2017 7:13:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

Freshman third baseman goes 3-for-3 with a walk in the matinee

STATESBORO, GA. - Georgia Southern Baseball dropped a 7-0 loss to Georgia on Saturday in the second game of the weekend series. Freshman Mitchell Golden went 3-for-3 in the game to continue his impressive start to the season. The Eagles and Bulldogs return to Jack Stallings Field at J.I. Clements Stadium on Sunday for the 1 p.m. series finale.

QUOTABLES
Head Coach Rodney Hennon
"Right now for our pitching staff there is very little room for error because we're not getting a lot of production from the offensive side of the ball. We've got some guys who have to play through this. We've got some guys that have shown that they have the ability to play well at this level against the arms that we're seeing, but right now we've got some guys that are fighting themselves. We've just got to fight through this."

SCORING SUMMARY
Top 1st - GS 0 - UGA 2 - Georgia posted an early 2-0 lead thanks to Michael Curry's two RBI double. He plated Will Campbell and Keegan McGovern who reached on a walk and a hit by pitch.
Top 3rd - GS 0 - UGA 3 - Campbell hit his second home run of the series to dead centerfield. The blast was aided by the 15 mph wind blowing out to center.
Top 7th - GS 0 - UGA 4 - After relief pitcher Zach Cowart got two quick outs, a two-out walk came back to haunt the sophomore when Talley came around to score on Maxwell's single to center.
Top 8th - GS 0 - UGA 7 - A leadoff triple opened the door for a three run eighth inning for the Bulldogs. Schunk tripled past a diving Jordan Wren in right to get things started. A two out fielded error brought two more unearned tallies home as the visitors posted the big lead.

GAME NOTES
- Saturday's game set a new attendance record for Georgia Southern Baseball at J.I. Clements Stadium. 3,435 fans were in attendance for the second game of the series, breaking the previous record of 3,258.
- Georgia Southern had plenty of chances, stranding 10 runners on base in Saturday's game, working six walks in addition to the four hits. Eagle batters struck out 10 times, down from Friday's 14 Ks.
- Junior Logan Baldwin made another bid for ESPN's top plays with a fourth inning diving catch. The Ringgold, Ga. native has twice previously been featured on the highlight segment for catches against Georgia State and UT Arlington in 2016.

NEXT UP
Georgia Southern closes out the series with the Bulldogs on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. The Eagles will look to salvage the series finale with the game that can be seen live on ESPN3.

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