Weekend roundup
Georgia is king (and queen) of the SEC in tennis. The men clinched the conference title over a week ago and finished out the regular season with an unblemished record by beating Tennessee. The women followed suit this weekend with their own conference title.
Gym Dogs
As expected, Georgia had little trouble breezing through the Denver regional to earn another trip to the national championships to defend their back-to-back titles.
The news wasn’t all good: senior Ashley Kupets’ career was ended with an achilles injury.
Baseball
If the Diamond Dawgs were going to have some kind of miraculous turnaround to the season, winning a series against another struggling team like Alabama would be a good start. Scratch that plan. Georgia dropped two of three to the Crimson Tide over the weekend. They fell 5-3 on Sunday after loading the bases in the eighth and ninth innings. Perno sounds helpless. "I don’t know about this team. Nothing is happening when we need it," he said.
Saturday’s 7-6 loss was especially painful; they led 6-5 before heading to the bottom of the ninth with closer Josh Fields on the mound. Dodson’s stellar Friday night was the lone bright spot of the series. The Dawgs are now 5-10 halfway through the SEC slate.
If there’s anything to salvage from this season, it’s the season series with Tech. The two teams meet on Wednesday in Atlanta.