Georgia Bulldogs baseball splits with Ole Miss at Foley Field in Athens

ATHENS, Ga. – Georgia (29-10, 9-9 SEC) split Saturday’s double-header against Ole Miss with a 7-2 win in game one to clinch the SEC series followed by a 3-2 loss in game two at Foley Field.

Fast Facts

Game 1

Charlie Condon (4-5, 2 HR, 4 RBI) hit a two-run home run in the fifth inning, as well as another in the seventh inning, marking a new season high of 26 for the All-American. This was his fourth game this season with four or more hits, and he now has 51 career home runs, which ranks tied for second in school history.

Christian Mracna got the start for Georgia and went 3.2 innings, allowing only two hits and striking out five. Kolten Smith (5-2) retired ten straight batters in 3.1 innings with six strikeouts, to secure his fifth win of the season.

Georgia scored five runs in the seventh inning of game one, all of which came from home runs, courtesy of Dylan Goldstein (10th), Kolby Branch (12th), and Condon.

A crowd of 3,849 saw the Bulldogs clinch another SEC series and improve to 24-2 at home.

Game 2

Matthew Hoskins, recovering from elbow surgery, made his first appearance of the season and first start since April 7, 2023, as he faced four batters and struck out one. Charlie Goldstein also returned to the mound for the first time since March 29 at Tennessee, striking out four of the six batters he faced.

Corey Collins (1-3) extended his on-base streak to 27 games.

Luke Wiltrakis allowed one run on two hits to fall to 0-1 in front of a crowd of 3,066.

Key Quotes

Charlie Condon

On the doubleheader today…

“It’s always important to be able to get a home series win like this. You have to take advantage of it, just because no matter who you’re playing or where you’re playing, SEC games are going to be hard. I think the frustrating thing for us is that we’re not worried about coming out here and sweeping or anything, we’re just worried about showing up at the start of every game ready to play our best baseball. Today it didn’t quite feel like that after we didn’t make that turn today to go into that second game, but this team is doing a lot of things really well right now and we’re just going to continue to build off of those things looking forward.”

Ike Cousins Head Baseball Coach Wes Johnson

On the doubleheader and series win…

“Series wins in this league are hard to come by, even at home. I thought we played well all day. You’re not going to put up 16 or 17 runs every game. You’ve got to tip your hat to Ole Miss. They made some adjustments and did some things that got us out of rhythm. We did a good job of not chasing. All in all, I look back on this series and thought that we were trending in the right direction.”

Up Next

Georgia will conclude an eight-game homestand against sixth-ranked Clemson on Tuesday, April 23. The game will be available on ESPNU, with a start time set for 7 p.m.

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