The No. 5 Georgia baseball team extended its road winning streak to nine games with a 5-4 victory Sunday against Kentucky, sweeping the series in Lexington, Ky.

It was also Georgia’s third sweep over an SEC opponent this season, but don’t expect head coach David Perno to pencil his team into College World Series yet.

“There is some perspective on it,” Perno said in a release. “I don’t think Kentucky, Mississippi State or Tennessee will make the tournament. Nonetheless we won all those games. There is a lot to be said for a team that wins games you are supposed to win. Nine of [the] next 15 are at home, and you have to think we will play better at home the rest of the way than we did last weekend.”

The Diamond Dogs (29-6, 11-4 SEC) received quality pitching from the entire staff, beginning with sophomore starter Justin Grimm, who allowed four runs (three earned) on seven hits over 5.2 innings.

Relievers Justin Earls, Will Harvil (3-1) and Dean Weaver (save No. 7) closed the door on the Wildcats by throwing a scoreless 3.1 innings.

Joey Lewis hit a solo home run (No. 12) to lead off the ninth inning for the game-winning run and the first time the Dogs won in their final at-bat.

Georgia scored twice in the second inning – on a double by Michael Demperio that scored Zach Cone, and on a Peter Verdin single that scored Demperio, to temporarily take a 2-1 lead before allowing single runs to Kentucky in the second and third innings.

Junior Rich Poythress gave Georgia the lead again in the fifth with a two-run home run, his 17th. He also knocked in RBIs 61 and 62.

Poythress is now seventh all time in both career home runs (34) and RBIs (159).

After Friday’s game was rained out, Georgia swept the double-header on Saturday, winning both games 7-4.

The Dogs return home Tuesday against in-state rival Georgia Tech before welcoming current No. 1 Arkansas into Foley Field during the weekend.