No. 5 Georgia Evens Series With No. 14 Arkansas

Friday, April 17

Fayetteville, Ark.

7 pm ET

University of Georgia

31-9, 12-5

Arkansas

26-14, 9-8

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Georgia	0	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	5	11	1
Arkansas	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	5	0

April 18, 2026 | Baseball

Box Score Georgia-Arkansas Game 40

FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. – Fifth-ranked Georgia evened its series with 14^th-ranked Arkansas Friday with a 5-3 win in front of a crowd of 10,593 at Baum-Walker Stadium.
Fast Facts

With tonight's win, Georgia remains in first place in the SEC with a 12-5 league mark and improves to 31-9 overall.
Bulldog junior Dylan Vigue started and went two scoreless innings with four strikeouts before warming up in the third and had to leave the game due to cramps.
Graduate Caden Aoki came in for Vigue to start the third and provided five innings with four strikeouts to earn a victory and move to 5-0 on the year.
Georgia took a 1-0 lead when Henry Allen led off the second with a mammoth blast that traveled a season high 477 feet. It was the longest home run hit in the Wes Johnson era, eclipsing Daniel Jackson's 465 foot shot against Florida Gulf Coast last season. It was Allen's 12^th home run this year.
The Bulldogs extended their lead to 3-0 in the third on run-scoring singles by Jordy Oriach and Michael O'Shaughnessy.
Justin Byrd notched his fourth save by pitching two scoreless innings with two strikeouts.
Arkansas got a two-run home run from Damian Ruiz to cut Georgia's lead to 4-2 in the sixth, and then Bulldog junior Rylan Lujo responded with a solo home run in the seventh to make it 5-2. It was his sixth home run of the year.
With two more home runs Friday, Georgia now has an NCAA-leading 104 home runs on the year.

Key Quotes
Ike Cousins Head Baseball Coach Wes Johnson
On Friday's win to even the series…
"This league is really hard and crazier than it's ever been. We didn't do some things well enough on the mound Thursday. I told our guys we just have to flush it and come out today. Our game is a new day, no runs or mistakes carry over. You have to attack the strike zone. We needed to score early and we did. The moment was not too big for Caden (Aoki) coming in for Dylan (Vigue) and Justin( Byrd) threw the ball well too down the stretch."

On update of Dylan Vigue who left the game after two innings…
"He was cramping. I tell these guys all the time that somebody has to be the adult in the room in a situation like this. I'm always going to put a player's health above anything else. He was fighting me pretty hard out there to stay in the game, but I said, no Dylan, we got a lot ahead of us and you have a long career ahead of you, and you're going to come back to the dugout with me."

Caden Aoki , Gr., RHP
On getting loose to fill in for Dylan Vigue and his relief outing…
"I was just feeling out in my head and in my body to get ready. It was so sudden when you get that call. You really have to slow down and I was honestly treating it like I was starting. The fans are heckling you, saying I'm going to go home if you're taking so long and all this stuff. It was awesome. I made sure I took my time and to get in the right mental space because I knew I was going to be out there for an extended part of time."

Up Next
Georgia (31-9, 12-5 SEC) concludes the SEC series against the Razorbacks (26-14, 9-8 SEC) on Saturday with first pitch set for 2 pm ET. The game will be available to stream on SEC Network+ and the Georgia Bulldogs Sports Network.