Tuesday, May 20, 2008

GEORGIA

Georgia's Athletic department is having a banner year and looks to add to it over the next couple of weeks. Following a #2 final ranking in Football, A SEC championship in basketball and baseball, and a 4th straight National Championship in Gymnastics, Georgia's spring sports are making a nice run once again. Though a lot of people do not care about the minor sports, I love to see Georgia do well when other schools like Georgia Tech tend to hang their hats on them.

The men's tennis team competes for the National title tonight after the upset of the year over Virginia.

Tonight vs. Texas- 7 pm ET ESPNU

The softball team had an average season in the brutal SEC, but swept through the regionals and face the greatest softball program ever in the Super-regionals.

Saturday @ UCLA- 8 pm ET ESPN
Sunday @ UCLA- 7 pm ET ESPN2 (9 pm ET ESPN2)

The golf team won the East regional by an enormous magin and will play in the NCAA nationals May 28-31. On top of that, former Georgia golfer Ryuji Imada won last weekends AT&T in Atlanta for his first PGA Tour victory.

The Baseball team won the SEC regular season. Beckham was the first Bulldog to be named SEC player of the year, Fields was named SEC pitcher of the year, and Perno is the Coach of the year. Georgia is the first SEC program to sweep these awards. However, Georgia's pitching is seemingly getting hit harder and harder as the season progresses and Beckham is still hitting above .400 but has fallen off the torrid pace that he was on for most of the year. If Holder is not able to get back to full strength, the Daws will face an uphill battle to Omaha and I don't feel like Massanari can carry the Bulldogs like Beckham did for a good part of the early going. Georgia has locked up a regional host but needs to play well in Hoover if they want to be a National seed.

Wed.- Sun.- SEC Tournament CSS/FSN

Georgia is currently 17th in the Director's Cup standings. With strong finishes from the golf, softball, and baseball teams, Georgia could find itself in he Top 3 by the end ofthe year.

2 comments:

Charlie Dodson said...

sounds to me like a bunch of big dogs

anymouse said...

Big Dog Diaz