KNOXVILLE — Tennessee’s baseball team handed Kentucky its first loss of the season on Friday night.
It took less than 48 hours for the momentum of that win to wash out and fizzle for the Volunteers.
The second-ranked Wildcats won the series on Sunday by finishing off the resumption Saturday’s suspended game and blanking UT 6-0 in the seven-inning finale.
“We had some opportunities that we didn’t come through on, and to beat quality teams we have to do that,” first-year Vols coach Dave Serrano said after Sunday’s mini-doubleheader. “I walk away from my second SEC weekend thinking we have capabilities to win series and we are not coming through when we have to, in every aspect of our game.”
The Vols (13-10, 2-4 SEC) came through Friday night in ending Kentucky’s 22-game season-opening win streak in a 4-1 win. Junior Zack Godley was masterful on the mound, limiting the Wildcats to just three hits in eight innings of work. UT managed four runs on four singles and Serrano’s small-ball style.