Georgia’s Chaney Rogers notched five RBIs and the Bulldogs’ baseball team won its third SEC series of the season in a high-scoring Sunday afternoon game against South Carolina.

“Chaney and Parks (Harber) were locked in all day and had the big hits,” UGA coach Scott Stricklin said. “It makes our lineup dangerous when everybody is going.

“I’m really proud of this team and how they’ve battled.”

The No. 14-ranked Bulldogs (24-8, 8-4 SEC) topped the Gamecocks (15-16, 4-8) at Founders Park in Columbia. They will be back in action at Kennesaw State at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at Stillwell Baseball Stadium.

Georgia pushed five runners across the plate in the top of the first inning to grab a dominant lead it never surrendered.

After a pair of RBI singles by Connor Tate and Harber, Rogers stepped up and scorched a three-run homer way over the right-field wall to give Georgia the 5-0 lead.

The Bulldogs added three runs in the fourth inning thanks to a Cory Acton RBI double, a wild pitch, and a bases loaded walk.

Georgia scored four more runs in the sixth on a couple of two-RBI singles from Rogers and Josh McAllister.

Rogers was 2-for-4 hitting with a home run and 5 RBIs.

Stricklin said that good teams win series, while great teams sweep them after his squad opened the season with a sweep of Albany.

But any SEC road series win is considered impressive.

Georgia was coming off a home sweep over Florida last weekend, but its last road trip resulted in a series loss to unranked Kentucky.

The Bulldogs took two out of three at Foley Field from defending national champ Mississippi State in the SEC series opener.

But the sweeps have been hard to come by on account of the team’s instability in the pitching rotation.

The Bulldogs have seen four different starting pitchers miss time due to injuries.

The only series Georgia has limited its opponent to less than five runs in all three games came against Akron, wich has a 10-21 record.

Liam Sullivan, Georgia’s No. 2 starter, was good in his first appearance in four weeks. Sullivan dealt three hitless innings before an odd call ended his day in the fourth.

With South Carolina’s Talmadge Lecroy on first with no outs, Braylen Wimmer whacked an 0-2 pitch off that Chaney Rogers appeared to catch at first glance. The play was originally ruled and out before further review showed the ball went off the top of the wall and into Rogers’ outstretched glove, putting runners on first and second with no outs to end Sullivan’s day.

Georgia will need Sullivan to continue his momentum into next weekend, as ace Jonathan Cannon might not be available with a strained right forearm.

Chandler Marsh and Jaden Woods both struggled in Sullivan’s relief. The two pitchers gave up a combined six hits and four walks for seven earned runs in 2.1 innings.

Jack Gowen entered in the sixth inning to tame the Gamecocks. The senior righthander dominated the South Carolina lineup, giving up 3 hits for an earned run in 3.2 innings, the longest outing of his career.

Gowen carried the Bulldogs all the way to the finish line, tallying his fifth save on the season.

“Jack was great, he was great on Tuesday at Clemson, here on Friday and again today,” Stricklin said. “Bottom line, he really competed well. He was the MVP from this weekend.”