No, Chase Adkins didn’t have somewhere he needed to be.

But, after pitching Georgia to a 1-0 win over UAB Sunday in a game that took just 1:57, no doubt he was able to make some additional plans.

“That’s what Coach (Scott Stricklin) was saying,” joked Adkins, who scattered four hits and struck out five.

“It felt like a three-inning game,” he added. “That’s what it felt like.”

Success like this is something Adkins – a former member of Coastal Carolina – enjoyed plenty of last season pitching for Chattahoochee Community College, where he went 8-2 with a league-best 1.81 ERA and completed five of his 13 starts with three shutouts.

He acknowledged Sunday’s effort may have been his best.

“It’s up there. All my pitches were working, my body felt good, my arm felt good, so yeah, you could say that,” Adkins said. “We knew they were taking first-pitch hacks and that’s why I was working backwards a lot. We got the job done.”

With the win, Adkins improved to 2-0 and lowered his ERA from 4.09 to 2.25.

Stricklin was certainly impressed.

“That’s kind of like in minor league baseball, getaway day on a Thursday afternoon, those 1:40 games because guys are swinging because they want to get the heck out of there,” Stricklin said. “It was a very quick game, both starters were very good, very efficient and threw a lot of strikes.”

Thomas Lowery (0-1) was the hard luck loser for UAB (6-5), allowing the game’s lone run on a sacrifice fly by Aaron Schunk in the second, scoring catcher Austin Biggar.

“I thought we hit some balls. The ball was just not going anywhere today. I thought Michael Curry hit the ball on the bell three times and had nothing to show for it,” Stricklin said. “It’s just one of those things, the pitching was good enough, the defense was great again, but Chase carried us.”

There was little doubt about that.

Georgia (5-6) managed just two hits all afternoon but, fortunately for the Bulldogs, Adkins had his teammates’ back.

“He was commanding everything, threw strikes,” said Biggar. “That’s all you can ask for.”

Adkins used a three-pitch arsensel to confound the Blazers, often working in a changeup and slider before spotting his fastball with pin-point accuracy.

“I’ve kind of pitched that way my whole life, trying to get in the hitters’ head, trying to get it where they’re thinking,” Adkins said. “I’m just trying to mess them up in the head pretty much every time.”

Mission accomplished there.

The Blazers only got one runner as far as third base the entire afternoon.”

“He’s a competitor, he really gets after it, and it’s not necessarily Friday night stuff but Friday night competitiveness, the way he gets after it,” Stricklin said. “His fastball is 89-91 but he can throw a breaking ball, changeup and he’s really frustrating to try and hit because nothing is straight. And you never know what you’re going to get.”

Georgia returns to action on Tuesday against Xavier.