Scott Stricklin’s final walk off of Foley Field this season was much sweeter than his first.
Georgia bowed out of postseason play by falling to Duke 8-5 and 8-4 in back-to-back games Monday in the NCAA Athens Regional, ending its season with a 39-21 record. This was a far cry from where it was entering the season, or from where Georgia finished any of the previous four years with Stricklin at the helm.
He and his players entered the season with few expectations – the assumed best-case scenario was a fifth-place finish in the SEC East and narrowly eclipsing a .