OMAHA, Neb. – Move over Josh Morris, you are no longer the top dog on Georgia’s all-time home run list.

That distinction now belongs to shortstop all-everything Gordon Beckham, who hit his 52nd career home run in the eighth inning, with his team trailing 6-3 to Fresno State.

Beckham, who said that all he hoped was that the record setter was a big hit for his team knew he was going to come through when the pressure was at its highest.

“I told coach during the Stanford game that I’m gonna hit one when we need it the most,” Beckham said. “This is the national championship, this is bigger than the Louisville one. This is the biggest home run of my career.”

The home run gives Beckham 27 for season, putting him one behind LSU’s Matt Clark for the season lead. It was also only Georgia’s third round-tripper in Omaha, and the first not hit by Ryan Peisel.

Beckham’s blast ignited a four-run Georgia rally against the beleaguered “Wonderdogs” pitching staff before slamming the door with closer Joshua Fields, who earned his 18th save of the year, tied for the most in the NCAA.

This marked the third time in Omaha that the Bulldogs won a game when trailing in the seventh inning or later, but Beckham said that nothing we really changed in the dugout.

“We did it because we have to,” he said. After they got those three runs in the eighth, I knew we weren’t out of it. If you just believe in yourself you are never out of it. But we are never going to count them out, because they are too good of a team to do that.”

HOLDER BATTLES THROUGH THE PAIN

After being hit in the leg by a comebacker off the bat of Fresno State’s Danny Muno, Georgia starter Trevor Holder needed to take several minutes of warmup pitches before the pain subsided enough for him to remain in the game.

“He laid it out for the ninth,” head coach David Perno said. “To take that shot off the shin in the third and still do into the seventh was huge. Trevor was outstanding and pitched like he was in mid-season form and kept us in that game. He did a tremendous job and helped keep our bullpen fresh.”

With the exception of two home runs, Holder pitched seven effective innings, holding the “Wonderdogs” to only three runs before yielding to Alex McRee, who promptly allowed three runs in the top of the eighth.

ZER-IONE TO HER-IONE

After going 0-for-5 with five strikeouts in the clinching game against Stanford, center fielder Matt Cerione went from goat to hero, driving in two clutch runs, including the game-tying run in the four-run eighth inning on a double that bounced off of the second base bag and bounded into shallow left field.

“He was big for us tonight,” Perno said.

SO CLOSE, BUT SO FAR

When asked if it had sunk in that he was one win away from winning a national championship, Beckham said he was anything but.

“I hope not, cause we gotta win one more,” he said. “If it sinks in we might start playing stiff and then we won’t enjoy it as much.”

Added designated hitter Joey Lewis: “It’s getting there. We can smell it, it is so close. But we just have to win one more game tomorrow.”

EXTRA BASES

The College World Series is only 15,203 fans short of breaking the all-time record of 285,499 set last year.Georgia only won eight games all year when trailing after the seventh of eighth innings, finishing with a record of 8-38-2. They are 3-0 in similar games in Omaha.Nick Montgomery will start for Georgia