{"id":37653,"date":"2022-06-05T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T14:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/1-vols-battle-back-from-early-deficit-to-advance-to-regional-final\/"},"modified":"2022-06-05T14:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T14:33:48","slug":"1-vols-battle-back-from-early-deficit-to-advance-to-regional-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/1-vols-battle-back-from-early-deficit-to-advance-to-regional-final\/","title":{"rendered":"# 1 Vols Battle Back from Early Deficit to Advance to Regional Final"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n \n Tennessee<\/span> \n UT<\/span> \n\t\t\t <\/span> \n <\/th>\n
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\n \n Campbell<\/span> \n CAM<\/span> \n\t\t\t <\/span> \n <\/th>\n
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With the win, the Volunteers (55-7) advanced to Sunday’s regional final and will await the winner of Georgia Tech and Campbell, who will play an elimination game to kick off the action at 2 pm<\/p>\n Five UT players posted multi-hit efforts as the Orange and White cranked out 15 total hits on the night, including four home runs. <\/p>\n Drew Gilbert<\/dfn>, Jorel Ortega<\/dfn> and Cortland Lawson<\/dfn> all homered and had three RBIs apiece to lead the offensive onslaught. Blake Burke<\/dfn> also homered for the 14th<\/sup> time this season to tie the program’s single season record for home runs by a freshman. <\/p>\n Despite the impressive offensive numbers, it was the Fighting Camels that threw the first punch. The Big Orange had to battle back from a four-run deficit in the third inning, tying their largest comeback win of the season.<\/p>\n After getting runners in scoring position in the first and second innings but failing to capitalize, the Campbell (41-18) broke through in the third with four runs (two earned) on four hits and an error to take a 4-0 lead and chase Vols’ starter Chase Dollander<\/dfn> from the game. Veteran lefty reliever Kirby Connell<\/dfn> was able to strand the bases loaded with a fly out to left field to limit further damage.<\/p>\n Connell was nothing short of spectacular from that point forward, allowing just two runs on three hits in four innings of work while tossing a career-high 65 pitches en route to earning his fourth victory of the year.<\/p>\n Tennessee immediately answered the Camels’ four-spot with three runs of their own in the top of the fourth to cut the deficit to one. Gilbert got the rally started with a double to right field and raced home one batter later on a single by Trey Lipscomb<\/dfn> to get UT on the board. Ortega continued his hot hitting with a no-doubt two-run homer over the porches in left field to bring the Vols within a run.<\/p>\n It was Gilbert who came up clutch once again for the Vols in the top of the fifth, blasting a mammoth three-run home run to give UT its first lead of the night. After falling behind 0-2 in the count, Gilbert hammered a hanging breaking ball over the videoboard for his 11th<\/sup> long ball of the year. UT added another run later in the inning on an infield single by Ortega to make it 7-4.<\/p>\n Campbell battled back to plate a pair of runs in the bottom of the seventh with a Drake Pierson two-run homer to center field to pull back within one, but Burke quickly answered with a solo shot of his own in the top of the eighth to put the Big Orange up 8-6.<\/p>\n After another home run by Campbell in the bottom of the eighth to cut the deficit to one once again, the Vols got some much-needed insurance with four runs in the top of the ninth, punctuated by a three-run blast by Lawson.<\/p>\n With a win tomorrow, Tennessee would advance to its second consecutive NCAA Super Regional. First pitch for UT’s game against either Georgia Tech or Campbell is slated for 7:06 pm\n<\/p>\n VOLLIE FINGERS FOR THE WIN: <\/strong>Junior lefty reliever Kirby Connell<\/dfn> improved his record to 4-0 on the year with Saturday’s win. Over his last 22 appearances, Connell has allowed just four runs and has not given up a run in 19 of those outings.<\/p>\n 150 BOMBS: <\/strong>With Cortland Lawson’s<\/dfn> three-run jack in the top of the ninth inning, the Vols reached the 150-homer mark for the season, which ranks sixth all-time in NCAA history. Tennessee has hit four-plus homers in each of their first two NCAA Regional games and has posted 17 games with four or more long balls this season.<\/p>\n BURKE TIES FRESHMAN HR RECORD: <\/strong>Blake Burke<\/dfn> tied the program record for home runs by a freshman with his 14th<\/sup> dinger of the season. Burke pulled even with JP Arencibia<\/dfn> (2005) and Alan Cockrell (1983).<\/p>\n RUSSELL ATOP GAMES PLAYED LIST: <\/strong>After entering the game in the bottom of the eighth as a defensive replacement, Evan Russell<\/dfn> pulled even with former teammate Pete Derkay<\/dfn> for the program record in games played (229). 12 Final 7
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