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Cowgirl Tennis Falls Short Against Tennessee in Sweet 16 to End Season
Oklahoma State entered Saturday with national title hopes but ended the day with a heartbreaking defeat.
OSU’s women’s tennis team lost 4-2 to No. 16 Tennessee in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. The Cowgirls were the No. 1 team in the country with a 29-0 start, but their first loss came in heartbreaking fashion at the Greenwood Tennis Center in Stillwater.
Trailing 3-2 with Ayumi Miyamoto and Anastasiya Komar still playing on Courts 5 and 1, the Cowgirls looked to stave off elimination. Both players battled through adversity and extended their sets but could not overcome the hole they had put themselves in.
Komar lost the third set in a tiebreaker, as Tennessee’s Sofia Cabezas sealed her team’s victory and a spot in the Elite Eight. The match did not end in OSU’s favor, and the team’s early momentum quickly came to a halt.
OSU got on the board first, winning the doubles point on Courts 1 and 3. However, the Cowgirls lost the first singles point after Lucia Peyre left with an injury. Peyre did not play in doubles and was unable to get through the first set before her afternoon ended.
No. 3 Ange Oby Kajuru put OSU up 2-1 after beating Elza Tomase on Court 2. However, Tennessee did not lose another match to end OSU’s undefeated season.
Despite the loss, Chris Young’s team still had one of the most successful seasons in OSU history. Although the Cowgirls have had deeper postseason runs in his tenure, their consistent placement at No. 1 and the ITA indoor championship made 2024 an unforgettable campaign.
The season ended with a disappointment, but the Cowgirls should be able to carry the momentum from this season into the next. However, the Cowgirls missing out on the opportunity to win a national championship in front of their home fans might sting for a while.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – We’re experiencing our hottest weather since summer 2025.
The hottest weather of the year is having a major impact on Middle Tennesseans. Temperatures have soared well above average during the afternoon and remained unusually high at night for several days. That’s caused thousands across Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky to temporarily change the way they go about everyday life. The heat has been so significant that temperatures have actually been in record territory.
For example, this past Sunday, Nashville nearly tied the highest minimum temperature ever for the date — 80° set in 1936. Nashville’s low on Sunday was 79.
As for high temperatures, while it was easily the hottest day of the year on Tuesday, Nashville missed that day’s record by nine degrees.
We’ll be closer on Wednesday, missing it by just six degrees.
There’s an even closer approach in line for Thursday. Our forecast for Nashville is 98°. The record high temperature is 101.
Cooler weather will eventually take over. By early next week, we expect highs to return to more seasonable levels — the low 90s.
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Former Tennessee baseball pitcher Garrett Stallings was called up by the Milwaukee Brewers on June 30.
Stallings, 28, likely will make his major league debut against the Cincinnati Reds on June 30 in the second game of the Brewers’ four-game homestand.
Stallings played at Tennessee from 2017 to 2019 in the early years of Tony Vitello’s stint at the Vols’ head coach. He earned a starting role as a freshman and became the ace by his junior season.
In 2019, the Los Angeles Angels selected Stallings in the fifth round of the MLB draft. He bounced around in the minors before landing firmly in Triple-A with the Norfolk Tides, and later the Brewers’ affiliate Nashville Sounds, in 2024.
Stallings posted a 3-3 record with the Sounds in 2026 with a 3.45 ERA and 59 strikeouts in 62⅔ innings.
He will be the 54th player in Tennessee history to reach the major leagues and the 12th since 2020. He will join left-hander Garrett Crochet (2020); right-hander Ben Joyce (2023); infielder Andre Lipcius (2023); IF Trey Lipscomb (2024); outfielder Jordan Beck (2024); RHP Seth Halvorsen (2024); RHP Chase Dollander (2025); RHP Blade Tidwell (2025); INF Christian Moore (2025); OF Drew Gilbert (2025); and RHP Chad Dallas (2026).
Dallas made his debut for the Toronto Blue Jays on June 4.
Wynton Jackson covers high school sports for Knox News. Email: wynton.jackson@knoxnews.com
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