Tre Phelps remembers very well his first home run as a member of the Georgia baseball team.
It was earlier this season, on Feb. 25, in the fifth inning against Northern Kentucky — the second of three homers in a row that inning by the Bulldogs’ potent bats. It was also his first hit as a Bulldog.
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