College Sports

Georgia's baseball team faces a tough test in its first College World Series game on Saturday night in Omaha, Neb., as the seventh-seeded Bulldogs take on top-seeded Miami.

Gordon Beckham homered twice and Georgia scored nine first-inning runs in a 17-8 victory Sunday over North Carolina State that gave the Bulldogs a College World Series berth for the third time in five years.

ATHENS -- The Georgia baseball team will try to advance to its third Collge World series in four years when in plays host N.C. State Sunday in the two teams' deciding Game 3 of a best-of-three Super Regional series at Foley Field.

John Cohen is coming home to Mississippi State to win a national championship. That was the message the former Bulldogs outfielder delivered to hundreds of fans who greeted him at news conferences in Starkville and Jackson on Saturday, a day after he resigned at Kentucky and took the job over the objection of former coach Ron Polk.

BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA -- UC Irvine's red-hot pitching had little trouble icing LSU's big bats Saturday night in the opener of their super regional series.
When they added a bit of power to their offense and some chicanery to their defense it added up to an 11-5 victory.

N.C. State used a four-run seventh inning to pull away from Georgia in a 10-6 win over the Bulldogs in Game 2 of the Athens Super Regional on Saturday at Foley Field.

University of Georgia senior fullback Brannan Southerland of Dacula underwent surgery on his left foot Friday in Athens - though his recovery time could take as long as 16 weeks, ruling him out of preseason practices and as many as five games of his senior season.

Trevor Holder pitched a career-high 8 2/3 innings, and Georgia's offense was overpowering for the fifth straight game in an 11-4 NCAA Super Regional victory Friday over North Carolina State.

North Carolina point guard Ty Lawson was charged Friday with driving after consuming alcohol following an early morning traffic stop.

Georgia baseball coach David Perno doesn't mind talking about his team's postseason success at Foley Field. Just don't bring up the dreaded notion of destiny.