SEC Baseball Tournament
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After nearly sweeping the Southeastern Conference's individual awards, top-seeded Georgia is hoping to claim a bigger prize: its first league tournament title.
The Bulldogs (35-19-1), who had three second-place finishes in the 1980s, open the double-elimination tournament Wednesday against No. 8 Mississippi (34-22) at Regions Park.
Georgia's David Perno, the SEC coach of the year, said trying to win the event for the first time is added motivation, along with faring well enough to bolster its case for one of the eight national seeds.
"You can't talk about winning it," Perno said. "The first thing you've got to try to do is get ...