Tennessee Softball Announces 2012 TV & Radio Broadcast Schedule

Feb. 9, 2012

By Brian Davis, Assistant Media Relations Director

MESA, Ariz. - The No. 9 Tennessee Lady Vol softball team will be featured on television at least eight times during the 2012 campaign, the Southeastern Conference announced on Thursday.

In addition, a potential of 29 regular-season contests could be broadcast on WNML "The Sports Animal" (AM 990, FM 99.1 and 99.3) with the "Voice of the Lady Vols" Mickey Dearstone expected to handle the play-by-play duties. Some radio broadcasts are still tentative because of postseason UT basketball tournament conflicts.

The Big Orange's eight 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 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.

Five of Tennessee's televised games will take place within the friendly confines of Lee Softball Stadium. UT will make its 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 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 on April 29 at 1 p.m. ET 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 77 times with 51 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

4/29 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*

*Games will be doubleheaders

All times are Eastern