Early offense powers Georgia to another win

The Georgia Bulldogs baseball team kept things rolling on Tuesday with a 10-5 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes. Charlie Condon's NCAA-leading 13th home run of the

The Georgia Bulldogs baseball team kept things rolling on Tuesday with a 10-5 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes.

Charlie Condon's NCAA-leading 13th home run of the year – a solo shot in the bottom of the first inning – gave the Bulldogs another early lead. However, Iowa catcher Davis Cop knotted things up at one run apiece with a solo bomb of his own in the second inning.

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Another pair of Georgia solo home runs off the bats of Lukas Farris and Henry Hunter sparked a four-run second inning which stifled any ounce of momentum the Hawkeyes once had. Sebastian Murillo and Dylan Goldstein each added an RBI of their own in the fifth and sixth inning, respectively.

Christian Mracna engineered another quality midweek start, accounting for 2.2 innings of work in which he allowed just one hit and one run while striking out a pair of batters. In all, eight Bulldog pitchers combined to allow just six hits and four walks while striking out seven Hawkeye batters.

Iowa plated a run in both the fourth and sixth inning, while two more runs in the seventh narrowed the Georgia lead to just two. But the momentum was once again short lived for the Hawkeyes as a Fernando Gonzalez RBI walk in the bottom half of the inning pushed the Dawg lead back to three runs.

Hunter eventually put the nail in the coffin in the eighth inning, as his second long ball of the night pushed the Georgia lead back to five runs. It marks the first multi-home run game of his collegiate career.

Following Tuesday's victory, the Bulldogs now sit at 17-1 and are currently riding an eight-game win streak into the beginning of conference play. The team will return to the diamond on Friday as they begin a three-game series at Kentucky. First pitch for Friday's matchup is set for 6:30 p.m. and the game will be televised on SEC Network+.