Tennessee had its biggest inning of the young baseball season Tuesday at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
Just in time to face No. 1.
The 19th-ranked Volunteers, who lost two out of three games to Kent State this past weekend in Knoxville, held a 1-0 lead over visiting Bellarmine before erupting for seven runs in the seventh inning to break free for an 8-3 victory before a crowd of 5,271. Tennessee improved to 6-2 and will next face top-ranked UCLA on Friday afternoon in the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas.
“I like this offensive group,” Vols first-year coach Josh Elander said in a press conference. “We’ve taken some good swings. We just need to string them together, so that was a good sign tonight.
“It’s a young group offensively, but they’re very talented. They need to be seasoned a little bit.”