Alex Wood pitched eight strong innings, and Levi Hyams went 4-for-5 to lead Georgia to a 7-3 win over Arkansas-Little Rock on Saturday in an elimination game in the Corvallis Regional.

Hyams got the Bulldogs going when he led off the game with a solo home run on a 3-2 pitch. It was his fifth home run of the season.

“I was just trying to square it up and not do too much,” Hyams said. “It was kind of nice to do that. I haven’t done that before, and it was good to get an early run on the board for us.”

The Trojans (24-34) threatened in the third on back-to-back base hits by Cameron Bentley and Greg Garcia. Wood fell behind Myles Parma 2-0 and then spun around and fired a strike to shortstop Kyle Farmer to pick off Bentley at second. It was a team-high sixth pickoff for Wood. He retired the next two hitters to keep it 1-0.

“Kyle and I have worked on that play a lot this year, and it’s worked for us a few times,” Wood said on the pickoff. “It’s a good way to cut down on the pressure in an inning.”