Rogers’ perfect game headlines Lady Vols’ sweep

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Senior pitcher Ashley Rogers opened the 2022 Lady Vol Obstacle spinning her initially occupation best sport, retiring 15 consecutive European batters to report the 13th personal and 15th overall fantastic game in plan heritage. The correct-handed All-American struck out 12 for a new season-significant and grew to become the to start with Lady Vol to file a ideal video game because Erin Gabriel in 2016, and Tennessee picked up an 8- run-rule gain to open up its two-day residence tournament.

Sport two from UNCG created fireworks of its have in the form of connect with-and-response homers in the 1st inning, but then settled into a defensive affair the Woman Vols had been pleased to play, pulling out the 4-2 win more than the Spartans. Graduate lefty Erin Edmoundson starred in the circle, racking up 10 Ks for her third double-digit strikeout functionality of the season.

Tennessee included three property operates to its tally off the bats of Ivy Davis, Ashley Morgan and Zaida Puni to bring its period overall to 71, the most for UT because hitting 100 in 2015. The 2022 Woman Vols turned the 3rd group in application record with additional than 70 home runs in a one season.

“I believe the spotlight of currently was the pitchers, for sure,” head coach Karen Weekly reported. “Perfect activity from Ashley Rogers. I suggest, she just pitched a gem. The detail I preferred the most was her efficiency. And then Erin (Edmoundson) coming in driving her, pitching in opposition to a seriously excellent hitting staff, next in the nation in home operates. Other than that initially inning, she stored them in the ballpark, and we failed to supply any cushion for her. Clearly, she had to just pitch definitely challenging the whole activity and did a excellent task.”

Activity 1 – #14 Tennessee 8, Eu

A preseason All-SEC assortment, Rogers gave the protection guiding her minor get the job done to do on Saturday, striking out seven of the initial nine Pirates she faced. Including a extend of six-straight punchouts, Rogers concluded the afternoon with 12 strikeouts for a new year-substantial both equally separately and for Tennessee (32-13) as a staff.

The senior from Athens, Tennessee, struck out the aspect a few occasions in 5 prospects on the way to her dozen Ks. Of the three outs not recorded by Rogers, only one particular ball managed to go away the infield and harmlessly uncovered the glove of senior outfielder Kiki Milloy.

Reigning co-SEC Participant of the 7 days Ivy Davis continued her blistering stretch of game titles by blasting her ninth property run of the season, her first given that her two-homer overall performance at Western Carolina previous week. The two-operate bomb in the next inning moved Davis into 3rd on the staff in the category, though the super senior also moved into shared possession of the group lead in multi-RBI online games with 11. She concluded the game 2-for-2 with three RBIs and a wander.

The Volunteer offense as a group showed great performance on the working day, scoring their 8 operates on 8 hits and 5 walks whilst not hanging out for the 2nd time this year.

The scoring begun when Milloy took benefit of an Eu error to rating the game’s initially operate in the leading of the 1st. Immediately after major off with an infield solitary, the center fielder moved to third on Amanda Ayala’s foundation strike and was equipped to appear home on an mistake in correct area, scoring her staff-leading 45th run of the time.

If Rogers experienced not absolutely shut the door on European, the 3rd inning would. Up 3- after Davis’ two-run shot, sophomore catcher Rylie West tripled to the left-middle subject hole to rating Zaida Puni. Super senior Ashley Morgan straight away introduced both equally West and herself dwelling, parking her eighth homer of the period in the outfield bleachers to make the score 6-.

Davis notched her 2nd RBI hit of the ballgame with two outs in the bottom of the 3rd, lacing an RBI one that brought household senior appropriate fielder Kaitlin Parsons from second to give the Lady Vols a seven-operate edge.

Milloy also developed the recreation-ending run, bringing residence junior DP Madison Webber on a sacrifice-fly in the fifth to cap scoring at 8-.

Parsons’ 3 stolen bases on the day were the most in a solitary video game by a Woman Vol this year and the 2nd time she has performed so in the Orange and White.

The Woman Vols followed their year template for results, improving upon to 17-2 when hitting two or more home operates and 24-5 when scoring initially. When scoring five-moreover runs, Tennessee is now 25-2 on the season and has finished so in five of their very last eight games.

Video game 2 – #14 Tennessee 4, UNC Greensboro 2

A rematch of the period opener, Tennessee experienced to tweak the script a small but replicated the success uncovered in Florida, dispatching the Spartans 4-2 in the Saturday finale of the Woman Vol Problem.

Zaida Puni launched her 11th homer of the time off the scoreboard to remedy UNCG’s in the best 50 percent of the inning and put the Woman Vols out in entrance 3-2 in the prime of the to start with. Puni’s 42 RBIs ties her with Milloy for the team direct this year.

Considerably like her counterpart in the 1st game, senior pitcher Erin Edmoundson had the strikeout pitch on complete exhibit, fanning the side in the initially and second innings. Equally Rogers and Edmoundson were being relentless in blocking totally free bases, surrendering no walks for the sixth and seventh time this period and the very first time for UT in back again-to-again games due to the fact February of 2021.

The graduate transfer shifted her technique around the program of the game, recording 9 of her ten strikeouts in the 1st four innings and allowing her protection deal with the remaining a few frames.

Edmoundson and Rogers are the 1st Girl Vols duo to file 10-furthermore strikeouts on the identical day given that Ellen Renfroe and Erin Gabriel did it for the Major Orange on Feb. 14, 2014, towards Pittsburgh and Binghamton at the USF Tournament.

The Lady Vols ended up capable to get the lead-off hitter aboard in just about every of the very first a few innings, punctuated by graduate senior Amanda Ayala. Clinging to a 3-2 lead in the 3rd inning, the Bloomfield, New Jersey native sent a fly ball careening off the wall for a stand-up triple, her 3rd of the time to move into sole possession of the group guide.

In the fourth inning, the Lady Vols created a fourth operate utilizing an error, wander, hit and productive out to rating junior Shakara Goodloe on an Ivy Davis RBI groundout to go the margin of error from one particular operate to two.

The Spartans threatened to send the match to the bottom fifty percent of the seventh ahead of Edmoundson worked herself out of a two-on, one particular-out jam by forcing a harmless foul out and strikeout to clinch the 4-2 acquire and two-activity year collection sweep of UNC Greensboro.

UP Next: Tennessee rounds out the 2022 Woman Vol Challenge with a rematch versus the European Pirates Sunday afternoon, with initially pitch scheduled for 1 p.m. at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium. The weekend finale will be streamed on the net by using SEC Network+.