Georgia softball dominates Clemson, advances to super regional

The Georgia Bulldogs softball team won the Athens Regional with a 5-0 win over the Clemson Tigers at Jack Turner Stadium. Georgia sophomore pitcher Addisen Fisher threw a complete game shutout and allowed just two hits in a dominant performance.

The Bulldogs avenged an early season home loss to Clemson and went a perfect 3-0 in the regional. Next up for the No. 10 seed Georgia Bulldogs is a best of three series against No. 7 seed Tennessee Volunteers, who defeated Virginia to win their regional.

Georgia is returning to a super regional for a forth consecutive season. Georgia softball coach Tony Baldwin has the Bulldogs peaking at the right time.

“Just a great day, a great weekend,” Baldwin said after UGA’s win. “Proud of the way that we went about the game. Eight walks, I think, nine yesterday, eight today. The discipline that we showed is one of the core things that we’ve talked about all season.”

Georgia will play at Tennessee in the Knoxville Super Regional from Thursday, May 21, to Sunday, May 24 (if three games are necessary). Georgia and Tennessee did not play each other during the regular season. Both teams are battled-tested from being in the SEC.

“I think we finished the last 12 games of the season, 11 of them were against top 10 teams, and the 11th one still hosted regionals and had spent time in the top 10,” Baldwin said. “We faced a lot of good teams. We’ve had to learn how to fight, how to take a punch, how to stay in a ball game, and I thought our pitching and defense today gave us an opportunity to just keep staying in the fight.”

The winner of the Georgia-Tennessee series will advance to the Women’s College World Series.

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