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Bevy Of Tennessee Pitchers Enter Portal As Massive Turnover Continues | Rocky Top Insider

Tennessee baseball’s major turnover on the mound continued Monday as seven more Vol pitchers officially entered the portal. Michael Sharman, Andrew DuMont, Dane Bjorn, Tanner Wiggins, Brayden May, Luke Payne and Stratton Scott were the latest to enter the portal Monday.
The Vols have now lost an incredibly 16 pitchers to the transfer portal this offseason after a 2025 season where Tennessee’s bullpen struggled and ahead of the upcoming roster limits with the House Settlement.
Of the 30 pitchers listed on Tennessee’s official 2025 roster, 16 have entered the transfer portal this offseason. Six of the 14 pitchers who have not entered the portal project as MLB Draft picks next month.
So who is still back? At least for now, Tegan Kuhns, Brayden Krenzel, Ryan Combs, Anson Seibert, Nic Abraham, Ben Martin, Aidan Hayse and Tate Strickland. It would be surprising if any of Kuhns, Krenzel or Seibert enter the portal but it remains to be seen about the others
Kuhns and Krenzel were key arms for Tennessee last season, combining to pitch 47.2 innings in SEC play. Seibert was the highest rated pitcher in the Vols’ 2024 signing class but missed the entirety of last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery last summer.
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While the numbers are vast, most the departing players to the portal are not massive losses. Dylan Loy threw 20.1 innings in SEC play for Tennessee last season. The other 15 pitchers combined to pitch 7.1 innings in conference play. RHP Austin Breedlove and LHP Andrew Behnke were the only other pitchers to throw more than an inning in SEC play.
That doesn’t mean none of the other departures couldn’t have developed into serviceable bullpen arms but none had proved to be reliable SEC pitcher. Of the 16 departures, six never pitched in a game at Tennessee.
Tennessee has landed five pitcher in the transfer portal including Bowling Green two-way DJ Newman, UNC Asheville’s Clay Edmondson, ETSU’s Brady Frederick, Kennesaw State’s RHP Bo Rhudy and MIT’s RHP Mason Estrada.
The Vols also boast a commitment from top junior college pitcher Matt Barr and have a talented incoming pitching class.
The complete list of portal pitching departures is Michael Sharman, Andrew DuMont, Dane Bjorn, Tanner Wiggins, Brayden May, Luke Payne, Stratton Scott, Andrew Behnke, Austin Breedlove, Beau Revord, Dylan Loy, Bryson Thacker, Austin Hunley, Brayden Sharp, Thomas Crabtree and Ryler Smart.
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Heavy police presence reported near Highway 31W in White House
WHITE HOUSE, Tenn. (WZTV) — A heavy law enforcement presence was reported Tuesday near the intersection of U.S. Highway 31W and Rolling Meadows Road in White House.
FOX 17 News has a crew headed to the scene and is working to learn more about the situation.
Law enforcement vehicles line a roadway near the intersection of U.S. Highway 31W and Rolling Meadows Road in White House, Tennessee, as authorities respond to an active incident on Tuesday. Officials had not released details about the investigation at the time the photo was taken. (Photo: FOX 17 News )
A viewer told FOX 17 News a man was barricaded inside a home with other people inside. However, FOX 17 News has not independently confirmed those details.
Once at the scene, FOX 17 News learned that a man who was inside the home during the operation had exited the residence. FOX 17 News is working to obtain more information on the incident that is now subsiding.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
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Former Tennessee teacher who allegedly showed nude photo to student indicted by grand jury
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. (WZTV) — A grand jury has indicted a former Montgomery County high school teacher for allegedly showing an inappropriate photo to a student.
In March, FOX 17 News reported that 52-year-old Matthew Vedder, a teacher at Montgomery Central High School at the time, showed a 17-year-old student a nude photo of himself. Vedder told investigators he accidentally swiped to the photo while showing students photos of a school project. He later resigned from Montgomery Central High School.
Makenzie Ellithorpe, is the Montgomery Central High School student who Matthew Vedder allegedly showed inappropriate photos to. (Photo: FOX 17 News)
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On July 7, the Sumner County District Attorney’s Office presented the results of a law enforcement investigation into Vedder to the Montgomery County Grand Jury, which voted to indict him on four counts of exhibiting obscene material to a minor.
Vedder was taken into custody by the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office. A Montgomery County judge set his bond at $10,000.
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Although Vedder resigned, the family of a Montgomery Central High School student called for the resignation of the Director of Schools, Dr. Jean Luna-Vedder, Matthew Vedder’s spouse. The district previously told FOX 17 News that Luna-Vedder removed herself from any disciplinary decisions and the investigation involving her husband.
As of June, Luna-Vedder has not publicly commented on calls for her resignation.
This is an ongoing story. Stick with FOX 17 News as we bring you the latest.
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Double rainbows spotted over Middle Tennessee — what causes them
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – Isolated showers and storms over the next few days will make for more brilliant color displays across the sky.
Rainbows have been very common across Middle Tennessee for several evenings now. With all the recent rain, conditions have been ideal for fabulous displays of brilliant colors. Some of you have even reported seeing double rainbows. WSMV4 viewer, Leslie Whited, captured the one above, early Tuesday evening, July 14th.
To find out how double rainbows form, let’s first examine how a single rainbow occurs.
Single rainbows form when the sun, positioned behind you, has its light refracted through raindrops ahead of you.

Those raindrops bend sunlight as it passes into the drops. Then, some of that light reflects off the back of the drop and is bent one more time as it exits the drop. That entire process is called single reflection. Single reflection produces the primary or brightest rainbow.
Sometimes, some light reflects twice while in a raindrop before exiting. This is called double reflection. Double reflection produces a secondary rainbow. The order of colors within a secondary rainbow is a mirror image of the primary rainbow (i.e. the reverse). Secondary rainbows are not as bright as primary rainbows because less light is double reflected than is single reflected (i.e. some light is lost or attenuated every time light is reflected). Notice the fainter secondary rainbow in Leslie Whited’s double rainbow/storm picture at the top of this article.
The ideal time to see a rainbow is when the sun is relatively low in the sky (and has the best chance of being at your back). That translates to early morning or evening. Since in our current weather pattern, showers and storms are most numerous during the late afternoon and evening, that’s when you’ll have the best chance of seeing a rainbow through the rest of this week. If you’re very lucky, you might even see a double rainbow.
Happy sky watching!
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