HOOVER, Ala. — Jack Arcamone went 2-for-3 with a home run, four RBIs and two runs, and Georgia won the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament for the first time, with the top-seeded Bulldogs routing No. 7 seed Arkansas 11-1 in seven innings Sunday.
The start of the game was delayed for 2 hours, 45 minutes due to heavy rain, but fourth-ranked Georgia (46-12) wasted no time in taking the lead. The Bulldogs scored five runs in the bottom of the first inning, highlighted by back-to-back one-out doubles by Rylan Lujo and Brennan Hudson and a two-run home run from Arcamone.
Tre Phelps joined Arcamone and Lugo in going 2-for-3 for the Bulldogs.
Georgia led 8-0 through five innings, and after 12th-ranked Arkansas (39-20) scored in the top of he sixth, Arcamone’s two-run single capped a three-run bottom half for the Bulldogs.
Arkansas got its only run on Maika Niu’s sixth-inning home run.