Unique week ahead for Vols as Doyle, Fischer return to Ole Miss

Tennessee Athletics photo / Tennessee junior pitcher Liam Doyle, who has been a part of two combined no-hitters this season, will return to Ole Miss later this week. Doyle played for the Rebels last year.

By David Paschall April 6, 2025 3 min read

It’s homecoming week for Tony Vitello’s Tennessee Volunteers.

Well, at least it is for a couple of his premier performers.

Within three weeks of Tennessee winning last season’s national championship, pitcher Liam Doyle and first baseman Andrew Fischer transferred from Ole Miss to the Vols. Tennessee hosts Alabama State on Tuesday, but then Fischer and Doyle will face their former teammates at the end of the week when the Vols resume Southeastern Conference competition by traveling to Oxford.

Doyle is scheduled to start Friday night’s series opener, while Fischer is certain to be in the lineup after reaching safely in all 32 games so far this spring.

David Paschall

David Paschall has covered sports at the Chattanooga Times Free Press since 1999 and wrote for the Chattanooga Free Press in the nine years before that. David has mostly covered college athletics, with a focus on the University of Georgia from 2000 to 2019 and the University of Tennessee since 2020. He grew up in Chattanooga and is a graduate of the Baylor School and Auburn University. David has received multiple writing awards and has served as a Heisman Trophy voter since 2003. He has also worked in radio in Chattanooga and has been on the SEC Network's "Classic Rewind" series since 2014. David and his wife, Kelly, have three children — Conner, Emily and Spencer.

Contact David Paschall at dpaschall@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6524.