Tennessee Softball Announces Two Additional Televised Games

Feb. 20, 2012

By Brian Davis, Assistant Media Relations Director

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - With the addition of televised home match-ups against Ole Miss on April 27 & 28 to be distributed via SportSouth, the #7 Tennessee Lady Vol softball squad will be featured on TV 10 more times during the 2012 campaign.

UT has already appeared on The Longhorn Network this season, having dropped a 3-2 (9 inn.) decision at #13 Texas on Feb. 19.

The Big Orange's 10 additional televised match-ups are part of the SEC contract with the ESPN family of networks. In all ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS) and Fox Sports Net/SportSouth will disseminate more than 30 league softball games during the season. Also, ESPN/ESPNU will again broadcast every game during the annual SEC Tournament to be held this season from May 10-12 in Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Seven of Tennessee's televised games will take place within the friendly confines of Lee Softball Stadium. UT will make its league television debut on the road at Alabama on March 21 as CSS will disseminate both ends of the doubleheader against the Crimson Tide (5 p.m. ET). The Orange & White makes it TV home debut at Lee Stadium on April 4 with CSS slated to televise both games of the Lady Vols' DH against Georgia (5 p.m. ET). For a pair of weekends in April, Tennessee might as well call ESPN/ESPNU home as UT will venture down on "the Plains" for an April 7 match-up at Auburn (2 p.m. ET/ESPNU) before returning home to host LSU on April 14 & 15 in a pair of contests to be distributed live via ESPN at noon and 4 p.m. ET, respectively. Finally, the Big Orange will host Ole Miss over April 27-29 with all three contests being shown via SportSouth.

Since venturing out to its first Women's College World Series at the end of the 2005 campaign, the Tennessee Lady Vol softball team has been featured on television a staggering 78 times with 52 of those having been broadcast via the ESPN family of networks or ESPN3.com.

2012 LADY VOL SOFTBALL TELEVISION BROADCAST SCHEDULE

ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU

4/7 Sat 2:00 p.m. ESPNU Tennessee @ Auburn

4/14 Sat Noon ESPN LSU @ Tennessee

4/15 Sun 4:00 p.m. ESPN LSU @ Tennessee

FOX Sports Net/SportSouth

4/27 Fri 6:00 p.m. SPSO Ole Miss @ Tennessee

4/28 Sat 1:00 p.m. SPSO Ole Miss @ Tennessee

4/29 Sun 1:00 p.m. SPSO Ole Miss @ Tennessee

CSS

3/21 Wed 5:00 p.m. CSS Tennessee @ Alabama*

4/4 Wed 5:00 p.m. CSS Georgia @ Tennessee*