The victory extended the Yellow Jackets' season-long winning streak to 10 games, while the Bulldogs' season-long streak of 12 straight wins was snapped. Tech won the regular season series with Georgia, 2-1.
The sale of 28,836 tickets to the game largest ever for a college baseball game, behind a crowd of 40,106 in attendance at Petco Park on March 11, 2004 for a game between San Diego State and Houston. The largest ticket sale for a college baseball game prior to the start of the 2004 season was 27,673 in a 2002 regular-season game between LSU and Tulane at the Superdome.
Proceeds from the Spring Baseball Classic, which also included a high school game between Marist and St. Pius, benefited Children's Healthcare of Atlanta. A check for $1,420,700 from advance ticket sales was presented prior to the game.
Tech's Brian Burks (5-5) earned the win in relief coming on in the fourth inning and working 2 1/3 scoreless innings. Starter Lee Hyde went 3 1/3, allowing three runs on four hits and striking out five.
The Yellow Jackets outhit the Bulldogs, 13-10, including two hits from Eric Patterson. Remole, Steven Blackwood, Micah Owings and Mike Nickeas each drove in two runs. Tech, which played errorless defense, was aided by four Georgia errors in the game.
Tech jumped on Georgia starter Matt Woods (2-2) for three runs in the top of the first inning. Patterson led off the game with a triple and scored on Wes Hodges' RBI double. After the next two Tech batters were retired, Brandon Boggs reached when left fielder Bobby Felmy slipped and dropped a fly ball. Remole followed with an RBI single that scored Boggs.
The Yellow Jackets extended the lead to 7-0 in the top of the fourth inning with four runs. After the first two hitters were quickly retired, Whit Robbins started the rally with a double. Patterson legged out an infield single, and a walk to Hodges loaded the bases. Blackwood drove in two runs with a single and Owings drove in two more runs with a double off the center field wall.
Georgia immediately answered with three runs in the bottom of the fourth to cut the lead to 7-3. Marshall Szabo singled and Josh Morris was hit by a pitch before Joey Side had a RBI double, Clint Sammons had a RBI single and Derek Smith added a RBI double.
Tech countered with two runs in the top of the fifth on a pair of sacrifice flies from Nickeas and Tyler Greene to make the score 9-3. The Jackets added three more runs in the sixth, including an RBI single from Remole and an RBI groundout from Nickeas, to extend the lead to 12-4.
Georgia scored its final two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning on a pinch-hit two-run home run by Matt Robbins, the older brother of Georgia Tech's first baseman Whit Robbins.
Georgia Tech will host Clemson for a three-game Atlantic Coast Conference series this weekend at Russ Chandler Stadium. The series begins on Friday at 7 p.m. and continues on Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. each day. Friday and Saturday's games will be broadcast on Fox Sports Net South.
2004 GEORGIA TECH BASEBALL
#14 GEORGIA TECH vs #12 GEORGIA
May 11, 2004 at Atlanta, Ga. (Turner Field)
GEORGIA TECH 12 (31-17) GEORGIA 5 (33-16)
Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI
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Eric Patterson 2b.......... 5 2 2 0 Josh Smith 3b.............. 3 0 0 0
Ryan Stanley ph/1b........ 1 0 0 0 Adam McDaniel ph/3b....... 2 0 0 0
Wes Hodges 3b.............. 2 2 1 1 Justin Holmes ss........... 4 0 0 0
Mike Trapani pr/3b........ 1 1 0 0 Marshall Szabo 2b.......... 4 1 3 0
Steven Blackwood lf........ 4 2 1 2 Josh Morris 1b............. 2 1 0 0
Micah Owings dh............ 5 1 1 2 Winton Mays 1b............ 1 0 0 0
Brandon Boggs cf........... 4 2 1 0 Joey Side rf............... 4 1 2 1
Clifton Remole rf.......... 4 1 3 2 Clint Sammons c............ 3 0 1 1
Jake Hall ph.............. 1 0 0 0 Jason Jacobs c............ 0 1 0 0
Jeff Kindel rf............ 0 0 0 0 Derek Smith dh............. 3 0 1 1
Mike Nickeas c............. 3 0 1 2 Matt Robbins ph........... 1 1 1 2
Andy Hawranick ph/c....... 1 0 1 0 Bobby Felmy lf............. 4 0 1 0
Tyler Greene ss............ 4 0 0 1 Kyle Keen cf............... 2 0 0 0
Whit Robbins 1b............ 4 1 1 0 Jonathan Wyatt cf......... 2 0 1 0
Cameron Lane ph/2b........ 1 0 1 0 Matt Woods p............... 0 0 0 0
Lee Hyde p................. 0 0 0 0 Brooks Brown p............ 0 0 0 0
Aaron Walker p............ 0 0 0 0 Johnny Dobbs p............ 0 0 0 0
Brian Burks p............. 0 0 0 0 Rip Warren p.............. 0 0 0 0
Ryan Turner p............. 0 0 0 0
Jordan Crews p............ 0 0 0 0
Totals..................... 40 12 13 10 Totals..................... 35 5 10 5
Score by Innings R H E
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GEORGIA TECH........ 300 423 000 - 12 13 0
GEORGIA............. 000 300 002 - 5 10 4
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E - Smith, J.(10); Felmy 3(5). DP - GEORGIA TECH 2. LOB - GEORGIA TECH 7; GEORGIA 5.
2B - Hodges, W.(16); Owings, M.(11); Remole, C.(11); Robbins, W.(8); Szabo(12);
Side(8); Smith, D.(6). 3B - Patterson, E(5). HR - Robbins, M. (1). HBP - Hodges, W.;
Morris. SF - Nickeas, M.(4); Greene, T.(2). SB - Patterson, E(39).
GEORGIA TECH IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO NP
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Lee Hyde .................. 3.1 4 3 3 0 5 0 0 1 0 14 15 3 2 58
Aaron Walker .............. 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 8
Brian Burks W,5-5......... 2.1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 8 8 2 3 21
Ryan Turner ............... 1.0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 5 2 0 18
Jordan Crews .............. 2.0 1 2 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 6 7 0 2 29
GEORGIA IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO NP
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Matt Woods L,2-2.......... 4.0 8 7 5 1 4 0 0 0 0 21 22 5 2 69
Brooks Brown .............. 1.1 2 4 3 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 8 2 1 34
Johnny Dobbs .............. 0.2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 1 1 15
Rip Warren ................ 3.0 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 11 11 2 3 42
Turner faced one batter in the 8th.
HBP - by Hyde, L. (Morris); by Brown (Hodges, W.). Inherited runners/scored: Walker, A.
2/1; Burks, B. 2/0; Crews, J. 1/0; Dobbs 2/2. Pitches/strikes: Hyde, L. 58/38; Walker,
A. 8/6; Burks, B. 21/14; Turner, R. 18/13; Crews, J. 29/20; Woods 69/42; Brown 34/19;
Dobbs 15/7; Warren 42/28.
Strikeouts - Patterson, E 2; Stanley, R.; Hodges, W.; Trapani, M.; Blackwood, S;
Owings, M.; Boggs, B.; Greene, T.; McDaniel 2; Holmes; Szabo; Morris; Side 2;
Sammons; Smith, D.; Felmy. Walks - Hodges, W.; Blackwood, S; Boggs, B.; Jacobs.
Umpires - HP: Danny Everett 1B: Ken Couch 2B: Steve Manders 3B: Tony Thompson
Start: 7:07 pm Time: 2:55 Attendance: 28,836