Two days ago, the No. 10 Georgia baseball team was enjoying 90-degree weather in the desert in the midst of a three-game sweep of Arizona.

Then it endured an unnerving 19-hour trip home and found Foley Field under a blanket of white.

“I had a bunch of text messages saying, ‘It’s snowing, it’s snowing,’” junior first baseman Rich Poythress said. “I expected maybe a little layer of snow, but this is wild.”

Twice, the team’s plane returned to Tucson, Ariz., for mechanical reasons, before arriving in Dallas at 1:30 a.m. The next morning, the team split into two groups for a flight into Atlanta before busing to Athens.

“It was an interesting road trip, but it was a lot of fun,” freshman right fielder Chase Davidson said. “Going up and coming back down was kind of scary because there was something wrong with the plane, but it was a good chance to hang with the guys and it was a lot of fun after the three wins.”

And the team’s reward for its first series win over a Pac-10 opponent in five tries?

Snow removal.

The infielders and outfielders traded turns shoveling snow off Foley Field’s infield as the others took batting practice in the indoor batting cage in preparation for tonight’s game against Wofford.

The pitchers worked out in the outfield and occasionally hurled a snowball or two toward the infield.

“We had a snowball fight earlier today and it’s been a lot of fun,” senior pitcher Trevor Holder said. “That’s their infield, they get to clean it up. We just hope they make the plays for us and don’t hold it against us.”

When the outfielders took their shift as the grounds crew, they also had their fair share of fun. A joint effort from junior center fielder Matt Cerione and freshman outfielder Zach Cone doused Davidson with a huge mound of snow, something he knew was coming eventually.

“They were messing with me because I was messing with [outfielder Johnathan Taylor] earlier today so they had to get me back with some huge blocks of snow, but I have to deal with it also being a freshman,” Davidson said. “But it was a lot of fun.”

In the meantime, sophomore outfielder Lyle Allen took to the artistic and solo approach of building his best snowman ever.

“From what I can remember [this is my first],” he said. “I might have made a few when I was real little, but this was definitely my best one though.”