VANDERBILT (29-20, 10-13 SEC) at #13 GEORGIA (33-15, 14-10 SEC)
Foley Field - Athens, Ga.

Friday, May 8 - 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 9 - 1 p.m.
Sunday, May 10 - 2 p.m.

**All times Eastern

TELEVISION
Saturday: CSS; Announcers: Matt Stewart & Buck Belue

RADIO
Georgia Bulldog Radio Network: Jeff Dantzler and David Johnston
Local Station: WRFC AM 960 The Ref
On the Internet: www.georgiadogs.com & GXtra

TICKETS
Fans can purchase single game tickets online via www.georgiadogs.com or by calling 1-877-542-1231. Reserved seats are $8, general admission seats are $5 and admission is free for Georgia students with a valid UGA ID. All remaining tickets will go on sale beginning two hours before first pitch of each game at the Foley Field ticket windows.

SENIOR DAY
This weekend marks the final home regular season games for six Georgia seniors including Adam Fuller, Will Harvil, Trevor Holder, Jason Leaver, Bryce Massanari and Miles Starr. They will be honored prior to Saturday's game.

GEORGIA VS. VANDERBILT
No. 13 Georgia will try to snap a six-game losing streak when Vanderbilt visits in the final home series of the regular season beginning Friday at 7 p.m. Saturday’s game is scheduled for 1 p.m. and will be televised by CSS, and the series finale is slated for Sunday at 2 p.m. The Bulldogs’ current slide ties the second longest losing streak under David Perno; the 2003 team lost nine in a row, and the 2004 College World Series team and the 2007  team also lost six in a row. Georgia will use the same rotation of Trevor Holder (7-2, 4.34), Alex McRee (4-1, 3.55) and Justin Grimm (2-3, 4.42) while Vanderbilt will counter with Sonny Gray (3-1, 5.34), Mike Minor (4-4, 3.93) and Drew Hayes (4-3, 6.17). It was last year in week nine against Vanderbilt that Georgia clinched the SEC Championship; this season the Bulldogs enter the series against the Commodores two games behind LSU, Florida and Ole Miss in the SEC race. Vanderbilt was also swept last week, losing three games at South Carolina by a combined 33-13. Each of the Commodores’ last four SEC series have been sweeps; they swept a two-game series at then-No. 1 Arkansas before being swept the following weekend at home by Alabama. The next week, Vanderbilt swept Mississippi State on the road.

WHO’S HOT
First baseman Rich Poythress is second in the country with 75 RBI, just four behind New Mexico State second baseman Bryan Marquez’s 79. Poythress is two shy of tying Gordon Beckham’s school record 77 RBI last year, and he is the first player in Georgia history to record two 70 RBI seasons after driving in 75 runs a year ago. Poythress is ranked in the top two in the SEC in eight statistical categories including first in batting average, RBI, hits, runs, on-base percentage and total bases and second in slugging percentage and home runs...Matt Cerione hit .444 (8-for-18) in Georgia’s four games last week including a three-hit, two-home run performance in game three against Florida. It was his first career multi-home run game and he set a career-high with 10 total bases...Colby May has hit safely in each of the last five games including two-hit games in series finales against Ole Miss and Florida. May is eighth in the league this season in batting and second among freshmen. He also has the SEC’s 11th-highest on-base percentage...Levi Hyams is batting .375 in Georgia’s last two SEC series, and his .310 average in all SEC games this season is third best on the team...Peter Verdin hit a team-high .364 against Florida in his first full weekend as Georgia’s starting right fielder. He carries a six-game hitting streak into the weekend, and is batting .341 in SEC play...Justin Grimm, Georgia’s Sunday starter, has allowed just four earned runs in his last 13 innings and two appearances at home against Arkansas and Florida. He leads the team with a 2.31 ERA at Foley Field.

RANKINGS
Georgia is ranked No. 13 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll and National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Poll. The Bulldogs are ranked No. 14 by Collegiate Baseball and No. 22 by Baseball America. Vanderbilt is unranked.

TIDBITS
Georgia has the SEC’s best road record this season with a 13-5 mark, and no other team in the league has more than 10 road wins...Georgia is 11-3 in TV games this season...Georgia is 5-2 in one-run games...The Bulldogs have yet to play an extra-inning game this season...The Bulldogs are 29-3 when leading after six innings. and 1-11 when trailing after six innings...Georgia has hit 91 home runs this year. Entering this season, the Bulldogs were averaging 63.4 home runs per season in the David Perno era...The Bulldogs’ seven home runs against Kennesaw State on April 21 is tied with LSU’s seven blasts against Illinois on March 7 for the most home runs by an SEC team this season...Colby May is ranked in the top 11 in the SEC in three statistical categories including eighth in batting, 10th in slugging, 11th in on-base percentage and tied for ninth in runs scored...Joey Lewis is batting .391 with 11 home runs and 38 RBI in 27 games as a catcher this year and .179 with four home runs and 11 RBI in 21 games as a DH...Bryce Massanari’s 12 home runs in SEC games leads the league...The Bulldogs have scored in the first inning 27 times this year

SEC WINS
Georgia is 34-19-1 in SEC games over the last two seasons. The most league wins by the Bulldogs in back-to-back seasons is 35 in 2001 and 2002. Here are Georgia’s highest SEC wins totals in consecutive season:

2001-02    35-25
2008-09    34-19-1
2000-01    34-26
1989-90    33-20
1986-87    32-21

SINGLE SEASON RBI RECORD
Last season Gordon Beckham broke the Georgia record for most RBI in a season with 77.  His teammate Rich Poythress actually had the second most ever with 75.  Last weekend against Florida, Poythress drove in his 75th run of the season to match last year’s total. Beckham averaged 1.08 RBI per game in his record-setting season last year, and Poythress is averaging 1.56 RBI per game this season. Through 48 games a year ago, Gordon Beckham was batting .409 with 22 home runs and 52 RBI. Through 48 games this season, Poythress is batting .406 with 21 home runs and 75 RBI.

POYTHRESS’ BIG NIGHT
Rich Poythress went 4-for-4 with three home runs, a double and a walk in Georgia’s 11-7 win over Kennesaw State on April 21. He became the seventh Georgia player to hit three home runs in a game and first since Jeff Keppinger in the Bulldogs’ thrilling win against Coastal Carolina in the 2001 NCAA Athens Regional. Poythress’ three-home run performance came on Keppinger’s 29th birthday and it also occurred on the night that Poythress’ nine-year old brother Jared served as the Bulldogs’ bat boy. Poythress’ double in the first inning narrowly missed leaving the park. He is now fifth all-time at Georgia with 38 career home runs and his 20 home runs this year is tied for the fourth most in a single season.

MASSANARI’S BIG DAY
Just five days after Rich Poythress hit three home runs against Kennesaw State, Bryce Massanari went 4-for-5 with three home runs and five RBI at Ole Miss. His second home run tied the game in the sixth and his third blast gave Georgia a two-run lead in the seventh before the Rebels rallied to win. He became the eighth Bulldog to hit three home runs in a game.

PERNO VS. THE SEC
After losing the SEC opening series at Alabama, Georgia rebounded with sweeps against Mississippi State,  Tennessee and Kentucky, bringing the total of SEC sweeps under David Perno to 15. Here are Georgia’s year-by-year SEC series records under Perno:

2002: 5-5 (1 3-game sweep)
2003: 2-8 (1 3-game sweep)
2004: 7-3 (4 3-game sweeps)
2005: 4-6
2006: 6-4 (3 3-game sweeps)
2007: 2-8 (1 3-game sweep)
2008: 8-2 (2 3-game sweeps)
2009: 4-4 (3 3-game sweeps)

overall: 38-40 (15 3-game sweeps)

**Sweeps does not include the 2-game sweep in 2005 vs Kentucky and 2-0-1 series win against LSU in 2008


SOLID D UNDER PERNO
Georgia has had its five highest fielding percentages in school history with David Perno at the helm:

Best Fielding Georgia Teams
1.    .972       2003
2.    .971       2004
2.    .971       2008
4.    .969       2005
5.    .968*  2006

*The 1989, ’90 and ’99 teams all fielded .968. Perno’s 2002 team fielded .963; the ’07 team was .964. The 2009 team is currently fielding .966.

ON DECK
Georgia will battle Georgia Tech in the annual Turner Field game on Tuesday before traveling to South Carolina to close out the regular season Thursday through Saturday.

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