COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Offensive momentum drove the No. 25/19 Lady Vols as they started their Reville Classic series with a win over Campbell, 13-1. The Lady Vols are now 13-1 on the season, extending their winning streak to eight games.
Tennessee rattled off a season-high 15 hits, with nine different Lady Vols contributing to the effort. Additionally, eight UT players combined to achieve the team’s most runs of the season and its largest margin of victory.
The win also marks the third time this season Tennessee has recorded four homeruns in a game and the performance moves the homer total to 28. By this point in 2015, the season that the Lady Vols recorded 100 dingers, UT had tallied 21.
Leading the offensive effort was Kiki Milloy, who posted the first grand slam of her Lady Vol career and the program’s first since Haley Bearden recorded two against ETSU on April 16, 2019. Milloy also finished the game 2-for-3, picking up a career-high five RBIs, two hits for two homeruns and came across the plate on four occasions.
Seniors Amanda Ayala and Ivy Davis both extended UT’s lead with home runs in the second and third innings, upping their records to five on the season and finishing the contest 2-of-4 and 2-of-3, respectively.
After a slow start to the first inning, Milloy and Davis started the first half of the second with back-to-back homers to give the Lady Vols a 2-0 lead. With the help of an Ayala single, sophomore Madison Webber (2-for-3) was able to make it home to give the Lady Vols another run.
At the top of the third, Davis’ RBI single allowed Milloy to extend the lead again before Ayala followed the homer trend of the afternoon, blasting a three-run dinger to bring in Davis and freshman Rylie West (3-for-4), for West’s second score of the season. Heading into the top of the fourth with a 7-0 lead, Webber’s RBI single up the middle allowed for another score on the day for Milloy, before she hit a grand slam bomb in the following half to put the Lady Vols deep into run-rule territory and solidify the early finish.
Milloy’s career-defining hit brought home Ayala, Treasuary Poindexter and Cailin Hannon before sophomore Anna Fox’s first RBI single of the season brought Josie Willingham home for the last run of the game.
Holding the Lady Camels to just three hits and one run on the day, sophomore Callie Turner finished game one with a 1.13 ERA and three strikeouts. An RBI single by redshirt sophomore Alexa Pagano late in the fifth was the only play that got in the way of Turner’s near shutout win.
Tennessee 8, Lamar 0
UT finished early in game 2 against Lamar after its bats heated up in the bottom of the fourth to bring four runs in for a 6-0 lead. The momentum carried over to the fifth frame and Rylie West bookended the day with a two-RBI walk-off triple to bring in Ally Shipman (2-for-3) and Josie Willingham.
After going down two in the final frame, Shipman extended play with a single through the left side. Webber (1-for-2) was hit by a pitch to get the walk-off run on base, before Willingham came in to pinch run.
West went 2-for-3 against the Cardinals and tallied the Lady Vols’ third three-bagger of the contest to tie the program single-game record. The high mark has only been met on five other occasions, most recently achieved on Feb. 16, 2013 at USF.
The Orange and White added 10 hits to the ledger, but were unable to go yard this time around. It’s just the third game for UT without a homerun this season.
Freshman pitcher Bailey McCachren was impressive in her fourth win of the season and only gave up two hits and walk. She retired one at the plate, but constructed a trio of the three up, three down innings in the first, third, and fifth frames.
Next Up
UT continues its road tournament with a doubleheader on Saturday that kicks off at 4 p.m. ET against host-team Texas A&M for a nonconference bout. The game will be broadcast on the SECN+. Game 2 will follow at 6:30 p.m., and will be a rematch with the Cardinals.
Box Score vs Campbell (PDF) | Box Score vs Lamar (PDF)
-UT Athletics
