Georgia baseball star Tre Phelps ejected for home run celebration vs Liberty

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After hitting a go-ahead, two-run homer in the sixth inning of its team's NCAA tournament game against Liberty, Georgia baseball star Tre Phelps showed some emotion.

A little bit too much emotion for the umpires' taste, as it turned out.

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Shortly after hitting a towering shot over the left-field wall and giving his team a 2-1 lead, Phelps was ejected from the Bulldogs' game in the Athens Regional after talking to and throwing hand signals in the direction of the Liberty bench as he made his way up the first-base line.

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Phelps wasn't the only player to get tossed, either, as Georgia coach Wes Johnson was also ejected after he came on to the field to argue the ejection.

While it's unclear who his words or hand motions were directed at, Phelps' family was among a group of Bulldogs fans sitting right above the Liberty dugout.

Due to the ejection, Phelps will be forced to miss his team's next game, whether it's a rematch against Liberty (which would be the result of a Georgia loss) or the first game of the super regional round against the winner of the Starkville Regional.

Phelps' homer was his 19th of the season, the third-most among Bulldogs players. The third baseman, a junior from Atlanta, was a first-team All-SEC selection this season.

He was the second standout player in a matter of hours Sunday to be ejected from a regional game. Arizona State star Landon Hairston, the Big 12 player of the year and a Golden Spikes semifinalist, was ejected from the Sun Devils' win against Nebraska in the fourth inning for throwing his bat in the air following a called third strike.

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