On Wednesday, Kirby Smart lost two of his assistant coaches. With a valiant walk-off from Dallis Goodnight, the Georgia softball team maintains its winning streak. Caitlin Clark smashes the record for most points scored ever.
On Wednesday, two coaches under Kirby Smart’s direction left their positions. According to a source from UGASports.com, Scott Cochran, an Athens special teams coach since 2020, and Darrell Dickey, an offensive assistant for one season, both left the school to explore other opportunities.
“I want to thank Scott and Darrell for their contributions to Georgia football,” Kirby Smart said in a statement. We want the best for them going ahead.
Kirk Benedict, formerly a special teams analyst, has been promoted to coordinator by Smart, who has selected Benedict to succeed Cochran. Will Muschamp took up Cochran’s position as the team’s special teams coordinator and on-field coach in August 2021, marking the end of Cochran’s career in Athens.
On the other hand, Cochran has been the team’s coordinator for the last two seasons.
Ten innings of softball are won by Georgia.
Despite being ranked fourth in the nation, Georgia softball needed extra innings to defeat unranked Wisconsin 7-6 on Thursday in Clearwater, Florida. Freshman Hannah Davila was driven in by Georgia junior Dallis Goodnight’s walk-off single up the middle, which preserved the Bulldogs’ perfect record.
In the bottom of the ninth, Goodnight also scored the game-tying run on an RBI single by Sara Mosely. Sydney Kuma, a senior in her fifth year, drove the Bulldogs ahead with three hits, including her third home run of the year. After six games this season, Kuma is hitting.750 with three home runs, three RBI, and a 2.175 OPS.
At the Clearwater Invitational on Friday, Georgia (6-0) will play two games: first at 10 a.m. ET against No. 6 Oklahoma State and second at 4 p.m. ET against No. 19 UCLA. Georgia’s last two games of the Invitational are against No. 7 Florida State at 10 a.m. ET and Minnesota at 4 p.m. ET on Saturday.
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Caitlin Clark, a senior at Iowa, broke Kelsey Plum’s all-time NCAA scoring record of 3,527 points on Thursday night with just eight points. She opened the game with eight points for her squad and, ironically, shattered the record with a crazy three-pointer.