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Photo by: Forest Jersey/Tennessee Athletics
#18 Lady Vols Earn 1,200th Program Win With DH Sweep At #8 Missouri
March 13, 2022 | Softball
COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The 18th-ranked Tennessee softball team picked up wins No. 1,199 and 1,200 in program history with a doubleheader sweep at No. 8/14 Missouri on Sunday. The Lady Vols dominated the Tigers, 14-3, in game one before holding on for a 5-4 victory to round out the opening weekend of SEC play at Mizzou Softball Stadium.
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Graduate pitcher Erin Edmoundson picked up her 10th and 11th wins of the season for the Lady Vols in the circle, totaling 9.0 innings pitched on the day with seven strikeouts and one earned run. Sophomore 3B Zaida Puni was UT's most productive player offensively, hitting 4-for-6 between the two contests with two home runs and four RBIs.
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Game 1 - No. 18/18 Tennessee 14, No. 8/14 Missouri 3
The Tennessee offense racked up a season-high 14 runs on 13 hits on the way to a resounding 14-3 run-rule victory over No. 8 Missouri in game one of the doubleheader.
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Four Lady Vols logged multi-hit outings in the SEC opener, highlighted by three-hit performances from Ashley Morgan (3-for-4, 2 2B, RBI), Zaida Puni (3-for-3, HR, 3 RBI) and Lair Beautae (3-for-4, 2B, 2 RBI). Junior outfielder Kiki Milloy tied a career-high with a team-best five RBIs and picked up her 10th home run of the season with an inside-the-park round tripper in Sunday's opener.
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Graduate pitcher Erin Edmoundson picked up win No. 10 on the year with a complete-game performance, tossing six innings with three strikeouts and one earned run on 99 pitches.
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The Lady Vols came out hot with a four-run frame on four hits in the top of the first. After Amanda Ayala roped a double to right field, Morgan drove her in with her first double of the season, cranking the 2-1 pitch to the wall in left center. Puni quadrupled Tennessee's lead with a three-run shot to left field that put UT ahead 4-0 in the early going.
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Beautae widened the gap in the top of the third, slashing a two-run double down the left field line that scored classmates Katie Taylor and McKenna Gibson to provide a 6-0 lead for the Big Orange on the eighth-ranked Tigers.
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Missouri cut the Lady Vol lead in half with a pair of home runs in the bottom of the fourth. Cleanup hitter Kara Daly launched the first pitch of the frame over the wall in right field before sophomore Riley Frizzell hit a two-run shot to round out the Tigers' scoring in the game. Both runs from Frizzell's homer went down as unearned after a two-out error in the Lady Vol infield.
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Milloy showcased her elite baserunning in the top of the fifth, crushing a ball off the wall in dead center that rolled around in the outfield and allowed the Lady Vol speedster to round the bases for an inside-the-park home run. Three runs scored on the play as Beautae and Ivy Davis crossed the plate as well, and UT took a 9-3 advantage into the sixth.
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The Big Orange delivered the final blow with five runs in the top of the sixth to amass an 11-run edge. After Morgan doubled for the second time, Gibson brought her home on a single through the left side to make it 10-3, Lady Vols. Morgan later scored on an Davis HBP, and Puni slid home two plate appearances later on a wild pitch.
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Milloy punctuated UT's offensive clinic, driving a two-run single through the middle for her fourth and fifth RBIs of the game that plated Beautae and Davis. Edmoundson finished the complete game effort in the bottom of the sixth, retiring three of four batters faced to cement the victory.
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Game 2 - No. 18/18 Tennessee 5, No. 8/14 Missouri 4
Sunday's second game was more tightly contested, but the Lady Vols denied Mizzou's comeback effort to secure the doubleheader sweep with a 5-4 victory on Sunday that went down as Tennessee's 1,200th win in program history.
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The Lady Vols (18-6) scored in each of the first four innings to build a 5-0 lead on the Tigers (16-6), featuring home runs from Madison Webber, Zaida Puni and Ivy Davis. Kiki Milloy tallied UT's only other hit in the contest with a single in the top of the fourth.
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Lady Vol lefty Erin Edmoundson came on in relief and shut down the Missouri lineup over the final three innings to earn her 11th win of the season. She collected four strikeouts, allowed no runs on one hit and retired nine of 12 batters faced to seal the victory.
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Tennessee capitalized on a couple of Missouri miscues to take a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, scoring after back-to-back two-out errors in the Tiger infield. After an error by the pitcher extended the frame, Puni popped one up to the first baseman, and the ball was dropped into fair territory which allowed Amanda Ayala to score from third.
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Webber made it a 3-0 ballgame in the second with her second homer in as many games with a two-run, opposite-field jack beyond the fence in left center. The blast was the second of the week for Webber and the second of her career, driving in freshman infielder Lair Beautae who led the inning off with a walk.
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Puni notched her second home run of the day in the top of the third with another opposite field shot, tanking a solo homer out to right field to put the Lady Vols ahead by four. Davis added a solo bomb of her own in the fourth, pulling a ball high and deep past the wall in left that provided a 5-0 lead for the Big Orange.
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Missouri showed signs of life in the fourth with three RBI hits from the middle of its lineup that cut the Tennessee advantage to two runs. Alex Honnold roped an RBI double while Kendyll Bailey and Hatti Moore knocked RBI singles to put the Tigers on the board in the fourth.
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Mizzou added a run in the bottom of the fifth when its RBI leader Kimberly Wert brought a run in on a sac fly after Edmoundson entered the game with two runners on. The Lady Vol pitcher ended the frame with a looking strikeout and retired the side in back-to-back frames without much of a threat to put the game on ice.
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UP NEXT: The Lady Vols will head from Columbia, Missouri, to Columbia, Tennessee, for the Midstate Classic against Memphis on Tuesday, March 15. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. ET from the championship field at the Ridley Sports Complex.
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For the most up-to-date information on Tennessee softball, follow @Vol_Softball on Twitter and Instagram.
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Graduate pitcher Erin Edmoundson picked up her 10th and 11th wins of the season for the Lady Vols in the circle, totaling 9.0 innings pitched on the day with seven strikeouts and one earned run. Sophomore 3B Zaida Puni was UT's most productive player offensively, hitting 4-for-6 between the two contests with two home runs and four RBIs.
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Game 1 - No. 18/18 Tennessee 14, No. 8/14 Missouri 3
The Tennessee offense racked up a season-high 14 runs on 13 hits on the way to a resounding 14-3 run-rule victory over No. 8 Missouri in game one of the doubleheader.
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Four Lady Vols logged multi-hit outings in the SEC opener, highlighted by three-hit performances from Ashley Morgan (3-for-4, 2 2B, RBI), Zaida Puni (3-for-3, HR, 3 RBI) and Lair Beautae (3-for-4, 2B, 2 RBI). Junior outfielder Kiki Milloy tied a career-high with a team-best five RBIs and picked up her 10th home run of the season with an inside-the-park round tripper in Sunday's opener.
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Graduate pitcher Erin Edmoundson picked up win No. 10 on the year with a complete-game performance, tossing six innings with three strikeouts and one earned run on 99 pitches.
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The Lady Vols came out hot with a four-run frame on four hits in the top of the first. After Amanda Ayala roped a double to right field, Morgan drove her in with her first double of the season, cranking the 2-1 pitch to the wall in left center. Puni quadrupled Tennessee's lead with a three-run shot to left field that put UT ahead 4-0 in the early going.
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Beautae widened the gap in the top of the third, slashing a two-run double down the left field line that scored classmates Katie Taylor and McKenna Gibson to provide a 6-0 lead for the Big Orange on the eighth-ranked Tigers.
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Missouri cut the Lady Vol lead in half with a pair of home runs in the bottom of the fourth. Cleanup hitter Kara Daly launched the first pitch of the frame over the wall in right field before sophomore Riley Frizzell hit a two-run shot to round out the Tigers' scoring in the game. Both runs from Frizzell's homer went down as unearned after a two-out error in the Lady Vol infield.
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Milloy showcased her elite baserunning in the top of the fifth, crushing a ball off the wall in dead center that rolled around in the outfield and allowed the Lady Vol speedster to round the bases for an inside-the-park home run. Three runs scored on the play as Beautae and Ivy Davis crossed the plate as well, and UT took a 9-3 advantage into the sixth.
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The Big Orange delivered the final blow with five runs in the top of the sixth to amass an 11-run edge. After Morgan doubled for the second time, Gibson brought her home on a single through the left side to make it 10-3, Lady Vols. Morgan later scored on an Davis HBP, and Puni slid home two plate appearances later on a wild pitch.
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Milloy punctuated UT's offensive clinic, driving a two-run single through the middle for her fourth and fifth RBIs of the game that plated Beautae and Davis. Edmoundson finished the complete game effort in the bottom of the sixth, retiring three of four batters faced to cement the victory.
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Game 2 - No. 18/18 Tennessee 5, No. 8/14 Missouri 4
Sunday's second game was more tightly contested, but the Lady Vols denied Mizzou's comeback effort to secure the doubleheader sweep with a 5-4 victory on Sunday that went down as Tennessee's 1,200th win in program history.
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The Lady Vols (18-6) scored in each of the first four innings to build a 5-0 lead on the Tigers (16-6), featuring home runs from Madison Webber, Zaida Puni and Ivy Davis. Kiki Milloy tallied UT's only other hit in the contest with a single in the top of the fourth.
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Lady Vol lefty Erin Edmoundson came on in relief and shut down the Missouri lineup over the final three innings to earn her 11th win of the season. She collected four strikeouts, allowed no runs on one hit and retired nine of 12 batters faced to seal the victory.
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Tennessee capitalized on a couple of Missouri miscues to take a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, scoring after back-to-back two-out errors in the Tiger infield. After an error by the pitcher extended the frame, Puni popped one up to the first baseman, and the ball was dropped into fair territory which allowed Amanda Ayala to score from third.
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Webber made it a 3-0 ballgame in the second with her second homer in as many games with a two-run, opposite-field jack beyond the fence in left center. The blast was the second of the week for Webber and the second of her career, driving in freshman infielder Lair Beautae who led the inning off with a walk.
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Puni notched her second home run of the day in the top of the third with another opposite field shot, tanking a solo homer out to right field to put the Lady Vols ahead by four. Davis added a solo bomb of her own in the fourth, pulling a ball high and deep past the wall in left that provided a 5-0 lead for the Big Orange.
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Missouri showed signs of life in the fourth with three RBI hits from the middle of its lineup that cut the Tennessee advantage to two runs. Alex Honnold roped an RBI double while Kendyll Bailey and Hatti Moore knocked RBI singles to put the Tigers on the board in the fourth.
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Mizzou added a run in the bottom of the fifth when its RBI leader Kimberly Wert brought a run in on a sac fly after Edmoundson entered the game with two runners on. The Lady Vol pitcher ended the frame with a looking strikeout and retired the side in back-to-back frames without much of a threat to put the game on ice.
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UP NEXT: The Lady Vols will head from Columbia, Missouri, to Columbia, Tennessee, for the Midstate Classic against Memphis on Tuesday, March 15. First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. ET from the championship field at the Ridley Sports Complex.
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For the most up-to-date information on Tennessee softball, follow @Vol_Softball on Twitter and Instagram.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Edmoundson, Erin (10-1)
L: Weber (5-1)
Batting:
2B: Ayala, Amanda 1 ; Morgan, Ashley 2 ; Beautae, Lair 1
HR: Milloy, Kiki 1 ; Puni, Zaida 1
RBI: Milloy, Kiki 5 ; Morgan, Ashley 1 ; Gibson, McKenna 1 ; Puni, Zaida 3 ; Davis, Ivy 1 ; Beautae, Lair 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Milloy, Kiki 1 ; Ayala, Amanda 1 ; West, Rylie 1 ; Morgan, Ashley 2 ; Taylor, Katie 1 ; Gibson, McKenna 2 ; Puni, Zaida 2 ; Davis, Ivy 2 ; Beautae, Lair 2
HBP: West, Rylie 1 ; Gibson, McKenna 1 ; Davis, Ivy 1
Batting:
HR: Daly 1 ; Frizell 1
RBI: Daly 1 ; Frizell 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Daly 1 ; Moore 1 ; Frizell 1
HBP: Wilmes 1
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