University of Tennessee Athletics
Saturday, February 22
Tampa, Fla.
9:00 AM
University of Tennessee
7-3
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Central Florida
10-2
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E
UCF
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11
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Tennessee
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Photo by: Maury Neipris/Tennessee Athletics
Lady Vols Fall to Knights
February 22, 2020 | Softball
TAMPA, Fla. – No. 12 Tennessee was greeted by the Florida sun this morning, which provided a bit of warmth to a 39-degree start to the day.
Unfortunately, the cool weather appeared to have cooled the bats of the Lady Vols who only recorded one hit, albeit a big one, in its consecutive run-rule loss to UCF (11-3) this weekend.
Freshman Josie Willingham gave UT a jolt of energy blasting her first career homer to clip the Knight's no-hitter in the bottom of the third, however, the Lady Vols (7-4) could not put together any additional offense to extend play after the fifth inning in the 9-1 loss.
Tennessee's defense, which was able to keep UCF off the board in the top of the fourth and fifth innings, struggled throughout the morning outing recording four errors.
Redshirt sophomore Samantha Bender (2-1) was credited with the loss giving up eight hits, two walks and three earned runs in 3.1 innings of work.
Next Up
UT will face host-team USF at 2 p.m. (ET) later today.
Unfortunately, the cool weather appeared to have cooled the bats of the Lady Vols who only recorded one hit, albeit a big one, in its consecutive run-rule loss to UCF (11-3) this weekend.
Freshman Josie Willingham gave UT a jolt of energy blasting her first career homer to clip the Knight's no-hitter in the bottom of the third, however, the Lady Vols (7-4) could not put together any additional offense to extend play after the fifth inning in the 9-1 loss.
Tennessee's defense, which was able to keep UCF off the board in the top of the fourth and fifth innings, struggled throughout the morning outing recording four errors.
Redshirt sophomore Samantha Bender (2-1) was credited with the loss giving up eight hits, two walks and three earned runs in 3.1 innings of work.
Next Up
UT will face host-team USF at 2 p.m. (ET) later today.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Breanna Vasquez (3-0)
L: Bender, Samantha (1-1)
Batting:
2B: Jada Cody 1
HR: Georgia Blair 1
RBI: Georgia Blair 2 ; Jada Cody 1 ; Shannon Doherty 3 ; Karissa Ornelas 1
SF: Shannon Doherty 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Juliana Wilson 1 ; Kasey Fava 1 ; Georgia Blair 3 ; Jada Cody 1 ; Karissa Ornelas 1 ; Justene Molina 1 ; Kaitlyn Jensen 1
SB: Kasey Fava 1 ; Justene Molina 1
Batting:
HR: Willingham, Josie 1
RBI: Willingham, Josie 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Willingham, Josie 1
SB: Milloy, Kiki 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
AB
2
R
1
H
1
RBI
1
dp/cf
AB
2
R
0
H
0
RBI
0
AB
2
R
0
H
0
RBI
0
AB
2
R
0
H
0
RBI
0
Players Mentioned
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