Oklahoma Sooners beat Georgia Bulldogs 10-2 on historic night
Gabbie Garcia hits two home runs and drives in six while Kendall Wells' hit a historic home run in Oklahoma's 10-2 win over Georgia.
It was a historic night for the Oklahoma Sooners in their 10-2 win over the Georgia Bulldogs . Kendall Wells ' second-inning home run set a new record for home runs by a team in a season with 162, and Wells set the Oklahoma single-season home run record with her 35th of the season. Audrey Lowry got the start for the Sooners against the No.
11 Bulldogs and threw six innings, allowing two earned runs on 10 hits, no walks, and had four strikeouts. Lowry held Georgia to 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position. Wells got the scoring started for the Sooners, taking the first offering from Georgia starter Addisen Fisher just over the wall in center field for her record-setting home run and a 1-0 lead.
In the third, Isabela Emerling drove in Kai Minor on a groundout before Gabbie Garcia launched her 20th home run of the season, a two-run shot, to give OU a 4-0 lead. The Bulldogs answered in the top of the fourth with a run to cut into the Sooners' lead. Lowry limited the damage and kept UGA off the board in the fifth.
In the bottom of the fifth, the Sooners pulled away from the Bulldogs with a four-run inning. Garcia hit her second two-run home run of the day, and Abby Dayton had a two-run home run of her own to make it 8-1 heading into the sixth. It was Dayton's eighth home run of the season and gave the Sooners 165 home runs this year.