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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UCF
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Next Up
UT will face host-team USF at 2 p.m. (ET) later today.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Next Up
UT will face host-team USF at 2 p.m. (ET) later today.
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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
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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