COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tennessee’s baseball team went toe-to-toe with South Carolina this weekend.
Given where the programs have been recently, it’s hard for the Volunteers to view a series loss as too much of a negative.
The two-time defending national champion and 10th-ranked Gamecocks won Saturday and Sunday to take the series after UT’s surprising win in Friday night’s series opener.
Despite taking one game, UT coach Dave Serrano was disappointed in Sunday’s performance.
“I didn’t feel like we showed up with the energy and mental capacity to come out on top,” he said after South Carolina’s 6-1 series-clinching win. “We didn’t do what we needed to do to come out on top in this series.