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Dogs begin fall baseball practice

With the Georgia Bulldog football team now only eleven days away from the start of a new football season, the Bulldog baseball team begins fall practice: the first practice session was held Monday. More than two dozen returning lettermen are beginning preparations for the 2019 college baseball season, which will begin in February. 

From UGA Sports Communications…

Georgia welcomes back seven returning starters around the diamond including All-American two-way standout Aaron Schunk (3B/RHP), freshman All-Americans C.J. Smith (LHP/OF) and Mason Meadows (C) plus second team All-SEC first baseman Adam Sasser. Also, Cam Shepherd is back after setting a school record for fielding percentage by a shortstop with a .980 mark last year. On the mound, Georgia returns a dozen pitchers from the 2018 staff that helped the Bulldogs go 39-21 overall (18-12 SEC) and earn a consensus top 25 final national ranking.

The Bulldogs have nine newcomers including seven freshmen, one junior college transfer in Kaden Fowler and one graduate transfer in John Cable. The incoming class features five pitchers including 6-5, 234-pound right-hander Cole Wilcox of Chickamauga, Ga., who was a projected first round draft pick in last June’s Major League Baseball Draft. He went 9-2 with a 1.59 ERA as a senior at Heritage High School. Fowler is a 6-0, 207-pound left-handed hitting All-Conference utility player from El Dorado, Kansas who played the past two seasons at Barton Community College in Great Bend, Kan. Cable is a former All-Sun Belt Conference catcher/first baseman who joins the Bulldogs after graduating from the University of New Orleans with a business degree. A native of Roswell, Ga., the 6-2, 225-pound left-handed hitting Cable missed the 2018 season due to a hamstring injury but hit .349-3-33 in 2017 for the Privateers.

Mark your calendar for Friday, Oct. 5 and Sunday, Oct. 14 as the Bulldogs will play two exhibition games at Foley Field. The NCAA will allow teams to play a pair of exhibition contests during the fall. The Bulldogs will play host to the University of North Georgia on Oct. 5 at 6 p.m. and UNC Asheville on Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. Admission is free for the exhibitions and the Red and Black Fall World Series. Georgia will conclude practice with its annual Fall Red and Black World Series slated for Nov. 1-3.

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