March 25, 2017
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ATHENS, Ga. -- Jonah Todd and Damon Haecker both had two hits, but No. 16 Auburn baseball fell to Georgia 4-1 Saturday at Foley Field.
"Casey Mize was great again today. He threw a full outing and gave us everything he had," Auburn head coach Butch Thompson said. "We only walked one batter. In that eighth inning, you want to get through that one. We are right there at the heart of their order and they tacked on another big run.
"Our situational hitting, there were a couple times we could've moved a guy over, and did not. That two-run inning that they had, they had a chopper hit right in front and get over our head. We've been getting a lot of those breaks and it didn't come."
The loss ended Auburn's nine-game winning streak. The Tigers (19-6, 4-1 SEC) left 11 men on base in the contest.
Mize (3-1) allowed three runs over seven innings. The sophomore struck out five with one walk.
Haecker plated Josh Anthony in the fourth inning on a RBI single to center for the early advantage.
UGA (10-14, 1-4 SEC) came back in the bottom half with a pair on a sac fly by Will Campbell and a run-scoring single from Aaron Schunk to take a 2-1 lead after four. Campbell's RBI ground out in the sixth made it 3-1 in favor of the Bulldogs.
Schunk's third hit of the day was an eighth-inning RBI single for the final margin. Keegan McGovern added three hits and scored twice for Georgia.
UGA starter Tony Locey (3.2 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 3 BB, 2 K) couldn't get through the fourth inning, but reliever Ryan Avidano (2-0) saved the staff with four scoreless innings out of the pen. He recorded five strikeouts. Zac Kristofak pitched a scoreless ninth for his first save.
Auburn and Georgia conclude the series Sunday at 12 pm CT.