I guess you gotta have a game like this once and a while.
We'll see tomorrow night how much the Yeller Jackets want to win the
regional. Couldn't get much worse than this one.
Very ugly story and totals from www.ramblinwreck.com:
Georgia Tech Blanked By Georgia, 8-0, Forcing Deciding Game
The Yellow Jackets and Bulldogs meet Monday at 7 p.m. to determine
regional champion
June 1, 2008
ATHENS, Ga. - Georgia used three home runs and a masterpiece pitching
performance by Nick Montgomery Sunday night to beat Georgia Tech, 8-0,
and force a deciding game in the Athens NCAA Baseball Regional at Foley
Field.
The Yellow Jackets (41-20), the regional's No. 2 seed, and Georgia
(38-22-1), the host and No. 1 seed, will meet here Monday at 7 p.m. with
the winner advancing to one of eight Super Regionals and the loser
closing the book on the 2008 season.
Montgomery (3-2) pitched a near-flawless game, scattering four hits and
striking out nine. Georgia Tech was shutout in an NCAA Tournament game
for the first time in 20 years and the Yellow Jackets were blanked by
the Bulldogs for the first time in nearly 40 years. Tech's four base
hits were its fewest in any game this season.
"There's not much for me to say," Georgia Tech head coach Danny Hall
said. "I just hope Nick Montgomery can't pitch again tomorrow because he
has pitched against us twice (this season) and we couldn't do anything
with him."
Georgia Tech's Charlie Blackmon singled in the third inning and again in
the ninth. In between, no Yellow Jacket earned a base hit against
Montgomery, a right-hander making just his third start of the season.
"Give him (Montgomery) a lot of credit," Hall said. "He pitched nine
innings, threw a shutout in a big game... give him all the credit in the
world."
Score by Innings R H E
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Georgia Tech........ 000 000 000 - 0 4 0
Georgia............. 002 120 30X - 8 12 0
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DP - Georgia 1. LOB - Georgia Tech 3; Georgia 8. 2B - Olson(12). 3B -
Peisel(2). HR - Olson(8); Poythress(14); Cerione(7). SB - Cerione(11).
CS -
Nichols, T.(1).
Georgia Tech IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP
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Eddie Burns......... 6.2 11 8 8 3 1 31 34 106
Kevin Jacob......... 1.1 1 0 0 1 1 5 6 22
Georgia IP H R ER BB SO AB BF NP
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Nick Montgomery..... 9.0 4 0 0 1 9 29 30 129
Win - Montgomery (3-2). Loss - Burns, E. (7-5). Save - None.
WP - Jacob, K. 2(8); Montgomery(3). Inherited runners/scored: Jacob, K.
1/0.Pitches/strikes: Burns, E. 106/63; Jacob, K. 22/13; Montgomery
129/85. Umpires - HP: Perry Costello 1B: Chuck Busse 2B: John Johnston
3B: Tim Catton
Start: 6:06 pm Time: 2:32 Attendance: 2929
Weather: Cloudy, 86deg, Wind-WNW-8mph
Game: GT0601
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