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Vols Come Up Short In 10 Innings
April 13, 2002 | Baseball
April 13, 2002
Knoxville, Tenn. -- The No. 11 Florida Gators scored three runs in the 10th inning to defeat the Tennessee Volunteers, 8-5, before a season-high crowd of 2555 at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
Trailing 5-4 in the bottom of the ninth, Tennessee's Ryan Moffett singled home Walter Sevilla to send the game into extra innings.
Florida (26-11, 8-6 SEC) sent nine men to the plate in the decisive frame where David Klebonis delivered the game winning hit, a two-run double, that plated Aaron Sobieraj who began the inning by reaching on an error, and Ryan Shealy who was intentionally walked. Klebonis added an insurance run as he came around to score on a Brian Rose single.
Kevin Coleman (1-2) picked up the win in 1 2/3 innings of relief.
Jeffery Terrell (2-6) took the loss as he logged the final 3 1/3 innings in relief of starter Patrick Hicklen. Hicklen was touched for five runs on seven hits in 6 2/3 innings.
Tennessee fell to 17-20 and 4-10 in the SEC.
The teams traded blows in the fourth as Shealy connected on his 15th home run of the season, a two-run blast, to put the Gators up 2-0, while Moffett's fourth home run of the season put the Vols on the board, cutting the lead to 2-1.
After Jordan Czarniecki tied game in the fifth with his fourth home run off the scoreboard in right field, the Vols tacked on two more for a 4-2 lead. Nick Crowe and Sevilla followed Czarniecki with back-to-back singles before Alex Hart uncorked two wild pitches allowing Crowe and Sevilla to score. The first got away from the catcher, Rose, in front of the Tennessee dugout, allowing Crowe to score from second and Sevilla to wind up at third.
Hart pitched into the sixth inning, allowing four runs on eight hits with six strikeouts and three walks. Jamie Goldfarb was strong in middle relief, working three innings, giving up the game-tying run on four hits.
Matt Garza's two-run home run, his ninth, tied the game 4-4 in the sixth, while Sobieraj singled home Jake Riordan in the seventh to snap the tie and give the Gators a 5-4 lead.
Game three of the series is Sunday at 1:30 p.m. ET.
