Georgia beat Liberty 6-2 on Saturday in Game 4 of the Athens Regional and moved into the regional final, putting the No. 3 national seed one win from clinching the bracket and staying home for a Super Regional in Athens.
The search around an Auburn Baseball Score may be about the Tigers, but Georgia delivered the result that mattered in Athens: five home runs, a 6-2 win and a place in Sunday’s final. The Bulldogs now have a clear path to the next round of the NCAA Tournament, and it begins at 5 p.m. against the winner of Liberty and Boston College.
Georgia kept piling on after taking control, with Kenny Ishikawa and Ryan Wynn each hitting solo homers in the third inning to push the lead to 4-2. Rylan Lujo added a home run in the sixth, and Brennan Hudson finished the scoring with a ninth-inning shot that made it 6-2. Daniel Jackson also went deep for his 29th home run of the season, moving into second place on Georgia’s single-season home run list behind Charlie Condon’s 37 from 2024.
The win came on the heels of an even louder offensive burst. Friday and Saturday morning, Georgia tied a program record with nine home runs in an 18-2 win over Long Island and broke its single-season home run record. The Bulldogs have now hit 163 home runs this season, a number that explains why every pitch in Athens has started to feel like it can change the bracket.
Georgia did not get there cleanly. Starter Dylan Vigue allowed one earned run and walked three in 1⅓ innings before leaving, and the game briefly tilted toward Liberty. Matt Scott took over and steadied it, pitching five scoreless innings while walking three and striking out four to earn the win. Georgia coach Wes Johnson said Scott was elite and that the team needed him when momentum was slipping away. Justin Byrd then covered 2⅔ scoreless innings for the save.
That middle stretch mattered because the regional is double-elimination, and Georgia’s margin for error is shrinking. If the Bulldogs beat whoever emerges Sunday, they will win the Athens Regional and move on to an NCAA Tournament Super Regional in Athens. If they lose, they will have to come back Monday and play again. For now, the Bulldogs have earned the simpler route, and Scott’s five innings may be the reason they still control it.
