Softball head coach gets 700th win in series sweep
The No. 10 Georgia softball team may have posted wins by the scores of 3-1 and 10-2, respectively, Sunday afternoon, but the day’s magic number was 700.
Head coach Lu Harris-Champer earned her way into NCAA softball’s 700-win club as the Bulldogs cruised to a series sweep over South Carolina.
Junior pitcher Katie Murphy (3-2) earned the win in the second game of the series for Harris-Champer’s 491st victory as a Georgia Bulldog, a 3-1 Georgia victory solidified by going four innings and allowing only one earned run on three hits.
Georgia’s (40-8, 17-6 SEC) runs in the contest all came during the bottom of the third inning — with an RBI single by junior Brianna Hesson followed by a two-RBI single from sophomore catcher Kristyn Sandberg.
Sandberg and Hesson are two of the five Bulldogs to reach the 30-RBI mark in 2010.
The final game of the series came in the form of a 10-2 run rule, finalized by the powerful bat of sophomore Ashley Razey.
The day continued what has become a month of walk-off hits for the Southern Miss transfer, as Razey belted a two-run home run to end the game and the conference series. The final hit of her day completed a 3-for-4 outburst at the plate, driving six runners in to outscore the Gamecocks all by herself.
Razey, another member of the 30-RBI club this season, has hit 11 home runs now in her first season with the Bulldogs.
Georgia took Game 1 on Saturday afternoon, winning 9-8 thanks in part to home runs from juniors Alisa Goler and Megan Wiggins.
The three games won add on to a lengthy laundry list of SEC and non-conference opponents that have fallen to Georgia during its 15-game winning streak.
Since the streak began on April 3, Georgia has gone from a 5-6 SEC record to an impressive 17-6.
The Bulldogs are now neck-and-neck with Tennessee and Florida for the regular season SEC East title, with just one more weekend of SEC action upcoming against Louisiana State.
Harris-Champer, who came to Athens after having already earned 209 wins with Nicholls State and Southern Mississippi, now sports a 701-240-1 record in her 14-year career.

