The 14th-ranked Georgia softball team will travel to Auburn, Alabama for the 2024 SEC Tournament at Jane B. Moore Field.
The seventh-seeded Bulldogs will take on tournament host and No. 10 seed Auburn in the first round on Thursday at 5 p.m. live on SEC Network.
Follow the Bulldogs
- Tuesday and Wednesday’s first-round games and Thursday’s quarterfinals will air live on SEC Network. Beth Mowins (play-by-play) and Michele Smith with Jessica Mendoza (analysis) will be on the call with Holly Rowe reporting.
- Live stat links can be found on the softball schedule page on GeorgiaDogs.com.
- Live Twitter updates will be available on the official Twitter page of Georgia softball, @UGAsoftball.
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SEC Tournament Tidbits
- Georgia’s all-time SEC Tournament record is 21-25 (.457) in 22 appearances
- Georgia’s lone tournament title came in 2014 in Columbia, South Carolina
-This will be the first time Georgia will be the No. 7 seed
- Georgia is 2-0 against Auburn in the SEC Tournament, facing off in 2002 and 2005
- The Bulldogs are 0-1 when the SEC Tournament is held in Auburn (2007); Georgia dropped a 3-2 decision in nine innings to Alabama
- Georgia’s 21 SEC Tournament wins and .457 percentage rank sixth and fifth, respectively, in tournament history
- Georgia has reached the tournament finals five times, fourth-most in league history; most recently in 2014 when the Bulldogs won the title
- The Bulldogs have four Championship runner-up finishes (2002, 2004, 2005, 2011)
- Pitching coach Chelsea Wilkinson was the Tournament MVP in 2014 when Georgia won its first and only SEC Tournament championship in Columbia, South Carolina
Series History
- Georgia leads the all-time series 40-26
- The Bulldogs are 20-13 on the road in Auburn
- Georgia is 2-0 against Auburn in the SEC Tournament, facing off in 2002 (Chattanooga) and 2005 (Gainesville)
- The teams last faced each other in 2023 in Athens when Georgia won the series against the Tigers
- The last time Georgia played in Auburn was 2022 when Auburn won the series
Georgia in the Polls
Georgia in the Poll: Week 13
- USA Today/NFCA: 14
- ESPN/USA Softball: 14
- D1Softball: 13
- Softball America: 14
- RPI: 6
Recapping Action
Georgia fell to Mississippi State in its final SEC series over the weekend. MSU started the series delivering Georgia its first shutout of the season, 2-0. The UGA bats responded in the second game of the series, putting up five runs while Shelby Walters and Lilli Backes combined for the pitching staff’s ninth shutout of the season, 5-0. Mississippi State took an early 2-0 lead in the finale and kept Georgia at bay to win the series finale 2-1.
A Look at What’s Ahead
The winner of game four between Georgia and Auburn will advance to game eight to face second-seeded Florida on Thursday at 5 p.m. ET.
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