April 24, 2002

Game One Box Score

Game Two Box Score

ATHENS, Ga. – Sparked by a five-run inning in each game, Georgia swept a Southeastern Conference softball doubleheader from Kentucky, 8-0 and 6-4, on Wednesday, April 24 at the Georgia Women’s Athletic Complex. The doubleheader sweep moves Georgia to 49-12, 17-12 SEC while the Wildcats drop to 21-28, 3-17 SEC.

UGA’s Michelle Green pitched a complete game, four-hit shutout for the game one victory while teammate Nicole Urban (4 IP, 5 H, 4 R) won game two to move to 10-1 on the year. Lacey Gardner threw the final three innings for the game two save. UK junior Morgan Marr suffered the loss in game one to fall to 5-10 on the year while freshman Meghan Cooper (10-10) was held accountable for the game two loss.

The Cats scored first in game two as Jessica Nance’s two-out, second-inning RBI triple to right center scored Cooper, who had singled a batter earlier.

UGA answered back quickly in their half of the inning as Kim Wendland stroked a leadoff triple to center and then came home on Kristen Bell’s RBI single. The Wildcats limited the damage to just one run as Nance gunned down Bell at the plate as the UGA shortstop tried to score on Julie Milner’s fly out to right.

Sophomore Rachel Friberg (2-for-5, HR) put the Wildcats back in front in the top of the fourth, taking Urban deep to left for her second home run of the season and a 2-1 UK lead.

The red and black then put a five spot on the board in the bottom of the fourth, their second five-run inning of the day, for a commanding lead. The crushing blow came as Amy Brannan belted a three-run home run over the leftfield fence with two outs.

The Bulldogs touched UK starter Marr for six runs on four hits in 2.0 innings of work, aided by three hit batsmen to get out to the early lead in the first game. UGA put one run up in the first as Nicole Barber singled, moved to third on Michelle Green’s sacrifice bunt and came home with the day’s first run on Michelle Tyree’s sac fly to center.

The Dawgs were not done, tagging Marr for five runs, three of them unearned, in the bottom of the second, staking UGA to a 6-0 lead. UGA finished the Cats of with two runs in the bottom of the fourth off of reliever Jennifer Howland, invoking the eight-run rule after the Cats’ half of the fifth.

The two teams will wrap up the series on Thursday with a 4 p.m. EDT game.

Game OneKentucky        00000- 0 4 2Georgia         1502X-8 7 0WP: Green (16-3). LP: Marr (5-10). S: none.

Game TwoKentucky 0101200-4 7 4Georgia 010500X-6 5 0WP: Urban (10-1). LP: Cooper (10-10). S: Gardner (2).

-UK-