Georgia College to Rally Thursday for Bobcats World Series Send Off
Georgia College & State University plans a send-off rally
Thursday for its Regional Champion Bobcat Baseball team as it
embarks for Cary, N.C. and the NCAA Division II World Series.
A university and community rally will be held at noon on Thursday
in front of the Paw Prints bookstore in the Maxwell Student Union
Building near the front campus, with President Dorothy
Leland, Athletic Director Wendell Staton and Coach Tom
Carty providing the send-off remarks.
Thunder the Bobcat mascot and Georgia College
cheerleaders will participate, while the Student Government
Association will provide balloons.
"This is an exciting achievement for our Bobcat baseball team and
we want all of our players to know that they take the hearts and
spirit of Georgia College with them as they compete for the
national championship," said President Leland. "Come out and show
your support for these great student-athletes!"
Georgia College students, faculty and staff, as well as community
members, are encouraged to wear blue and green for the event.
Earning a berth in the eight-team World Series competition for the
first time since 1995, the Bobcats will take on nationally
top-ranked UC-San Diego at 5 p.m. on Saturday.
The World Series Bobcat games will be broadcast locally on 102.3FM
or 1450AM, and on the internet at www.country102fm.com. The full
schedule is still incomplete, but the Bobcats will play again on
Monday.
Last Sunday, the ninth ranked Bobcats (39-15) blanked sixth-ranked
Francis Marion University (40-14) 9-0 in the regional championship
game of the NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Tournament. This is
the second regional baseball championship in Georgia College
history.
"The guys played great baseball for four days, good team
baseball," said Head Coach Tom Carty in just his third season as
Bobcat skipper. "We knew we were capable of this back in August,
and we just kept working toward getting at this level. Having a
chance to get to the World Series has been a goal, and now we have
the opportunity to win a National Championship."