Jordan Beck took a step and smacked his bat in opposition to his chest.
The Tennessee baseball outfielder took a pair extra steps, then spiked the bat into the Lindsey Nelson Stadium turf. The ball was lengthy gone to left discipline and the Vols had been again, crushing the ball and overpowering an opponent.
No. 1 Tennessee (57-8) compelled a Recreation 3 in opposition to Notre Dame (39-15) with its 12-4 win Saturday within the Knoxville Tremendous Regional. The Vols and Combating Irish play Sunday (1 p.m. ET, ESPN) for a spot within the Faculty World Collection.
Tennessee’s fifth-inning fireworks
Tennessee hit 4 fifth-inning residence runs, scoring eight runs within the body all through homers.
Beck had the mammoth shot, breaking the sport open with a three-run homer to place the Vols forward 5-0. First baseman Luc Lipcius homered twice within the inning. Evan Russell hit the fourth homer.
Tennessee scored first on a Trey Lipscomb double that scored Seth Stephenson within the first. UT had fallen behind in every of its previous three video games, together with Friday’s 8-6 loss within the opener.
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DOLLANDER SILENCES NOTRE DAME: Tennessee baseball’s bats were loud against Notre Dame. Vols’ Chase Dollander did the silencing.
Chase Dollander set the tone
Chase Dollander painted the skin nook with a 96 mph fastball to Notre Dame’s Jack Brannigan for a first-inning strikeout. He struck out Carter Putz trying to finish the primary.
The Tennessee ace did not let up.
He stifled Notre Dame, holding a one-run lead for the primary 4 innings till the Vols broke the sport open within the fifth. Dollander struck out 5 and allowed two runs on 5 hits with no walks in seven innings. He ended his outing with a strikeout, getting TJ Williams on a test swing.
House run report again and again and over
Lipcius homered excessive off the batter’s eye in heart discipline main off the fifth to tie the Tennessee program record with 38. Russell got here up later in the identical hitting and slugged a homer to deep proper, shifting forward of Lipcius and Todd Helton with residence run No. 39 of his career.
Lipcius wasn’t finished. He hit a three-run homer onto the porches later within the fifth, to tie Russell and turn into the third participant in program historical past to hit two homers in the identical inning.
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