Georgia baseball vs. Liberty NCAA Athens Regional score, updates, channel

Georgia baseball will try to lock down its spot in the NCAA Super Regionals Sunday evening when it plays in the Athens Regional final at Foley Field.

The No. 3 national seed Bulldogs will go up against region No. 3 seed Liberty which eliminated Boston College earlier Sunday, 8-3.

Georgia (48-12) can clinch the regional title Sunday, but the Flames (43-20) would need to force a second game against the Bulldogs Monday in the double-elimination tournament to advance.

Georgia beat Liberty 6-2 on Saturday.

“As far as the mindset, I told our guys, yeah, it’s an old cliché, but the job’s not done,” Georgia coach Wes Johnson said. “We’ve just put ourselves in position to play one game (Sunday). Real simple. We played good (against Liberty). Job’s not done. We’ve got to…understand runs don’t carry over. None of that matters. You’ve got to seize the moment, those kind of things.”

Righty Caden Aoki is starting for Georgia.

Georgia has hit 14 homers in two games in the regional including in an 18-2 win over Long Island. Bulldog pitching has given up just 5 hits total.

Georgia baseball vs. Liberty live updates

Daniel Jackson’s one-out single to center in the fourth was the first hit off of Cooper Harrington, but Harrington induced a fly out and then struck out Brennan Hudson for the second time. Georgia trails 1-0 going to the fifth.

Nick Barone swatted a one-out offering from Caden Aoki off the wall in left for his 18th double of the season. Caden Aoki than got Easton Swofford and Landon Scilley to strike out swinging. It’s 1-0 Liberty after three and a half innings.

Georgia hasn’t had a runner on base against Cooper Harrington who has faced the minimum nine batters through three innings. He struck out Ryan Black to end the inning getting the outfielder to swing and miss on a 77 mile per hour pitch followed by 92. Liberty leads 1-0 heading to the fourth.

Caden Aoki is up to five strikeouts after the third. The USC transfer has thrown 33 of his 49 pitches for strikes. After a two-out Riley DeCandido single to center, Aoki induced a ground out. Liberty still ahead 1-0 going to bottom of the third.

Cooper Harrington has gone three up, three down in the first two innings against Georgia while throwing only 24 pitches. Ryan Wynn flew out to left with the wind blowing in. Liberty 1, Georgia 0 going to the third.

Georgia’s infield did their job in cleanly fielding a couple of ground balls for outs before Caden Aokin struck out Kyle Hvidsten for his fourth strikeout of the game. Liberty is ahead 1-0 going to the bottom of the second.

Georgia didn’t get anything going off Liberty starter Cooper Harrington. He has been the Flames’ closer but had two starts previously. Georgia went down 1-2-3 with Rylan Lujo grounding out on a ball that came off his bat at 101 miles per hour.

Caden Aoki had three strikeouts in the first inning but also gave up a one-out double to Riley DeCandido who moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on a two-out single up the middle from Jaxon Sorenson. It’s Liberty up 1-0 heading to the bottom of the first.