Tennessee sophomore left fielder Dylan Dreiling had three hits during Sunday afternoon’s series finale at Vanderbilt.
Nobody else came to the party at the plate for the Volunteers.
The top-ranked Vols were denied 3-0 in their quest for a 10th consecutive conquest of the Commodores, and doing the denying was the pitching tandem of JD Thompson and Devin Futrell. In dealing Tennessee its first shutout of the season, Thompson and Futrell combined to allow just the three hits by Dreiling while amassing a whopping 14 strikeouts.
Thompson racked up nine of those strikeouts in his six-inning start.
“It’s not like we didn’t show up energized,” Tennessee coach Tony Vitello told reporters on the field afterward in Nashville. “There was no overcelebrating or anything like that. They certainly wanted to win, and you could sense that.