Tennessee
Takeaways from Tennessee softball’s home sweep of Texas A&M
After winning the very first 2 video games with walk-off homers, Tennessee softball burst out the mops, securing a house move of Texas A&M with a 5-1 on Monday.
The Woman Vols capitalized a wild pitch and also a fielding mistake in the 5th inning to leap bent on a four-run lead. The Aggies (24-17) scored their single run in the 3rd and also they were just able to obtain one struck off of Erin Edmoundson the remainder of the video game. Edmoundson had 8 strikeouts, pitching the complete 7 innings. 5 of Edmounson’s strikeouts remained in the last 6 batters she dealt with.
“There were 4 or 5 strikeouts looking,” Tennessee instructor Karen Weekly claimed. “That late in the video game, when you stand out individuals out looking and also a great striking group like that? They simply have no suggestion what’s coming. That’s wonderful command. Simply Erin, simply being Erin. She’s a rival, and also she’s an actually clever bottle. To do that to a group like that on day 3, really excellent.”
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Texas A&M instructor Jo Evans was expelled in the 6th inning after saying with a phone call that a Texas A&M gamer leaned over home plate when she was struck by a pitch.
With the 3 victories at Sherri Parker Lee Arena over the weekend break, No. 15 Tennessee (30-12) has actually a .647 winning portion, which maintains the Woman Vols at 3rd in the seminar. It was the Woman Vols’ very first three-game move of seminar play.
“First SEC move, it’s an actually large offer – tough to obtain moves in this organization,” Weekly claimed. “It was actually motivating to be able to appear and also play well adequate to win 3 days in the SEC.”
Crime isn’t a trouble
Zaida Puni began Monday evening with a bang. At the cleaning area in the schedule, Puni had Amanda Ayala on keystone when she struck a bomb to right-center area in her very first at-bat, offering Tennessee a 2-0 result in begin. The homer topped off a solid weekend break for Puni, that had 5 hits, 2 crowning achievement and also 4 RBIs.
“It simply reveals that I understand exactly how to play and also I assume I have actually been keeping back on doing,” Puni claimed. “So I suggest, this weekend break, I primarily revealed that my self-confidence exists.”
Aide instructor Chris Malveaux has currently raised the Woman Vols’ violation in his very first period as striking instructor. Tennessee leads the SEC in both runs racked up (110) and also increases (32). The Woman Vols’ 105 hits and also 25 crowning achievement in SEC play currently go beyond last period’s total amounts busy play in both groups.
Edmoundson leading with Rogers still fighting with injury
After a standout junior period in the circle, Ashley Rogers was anticipated to find back for a solid elderly project. However injuries have actually pestered her all period, and also Rogers has actually just begun 8 ready Tennessee. Weekly claimed the personnel wished Rogers can begin Sunday, yet she had not been prepared to go. Rogers might need to remain one more week or more, and also Weekly did not define the bottle’s injury.
Emoundson has actually been the go-to for Tennessee this period, and also she’s tallied 17 victories in 21 begins. Edmoundson made 2 begin again the weekend break, permitting 6 hits and also 5 operate on Saturday. However she recuperated for a solid proving on Monday, just permitting 3 hits.
“I assume she conceals the sphere quite well the method she provides it, yet she’s additionally simply really smart,” Weekly claimed of Edmounson. “She can make the sphere spin and also relocate every various instructions and also she can alter rates. So you simply never ever have a great feeling for what’s coming.”
The only run Texas A&M had the ability to rating was by Haley Lee, and also Edmounson had actually functioned her method to a complete matter and also required Lee right into striking 6 nasty spheres prior to she struck the homer.
Weekly notches 1,200th win
Saturday’s win was the 1,200th win of Weekly’s job as a head instructor. Her training document currently stands at 1,202-409-2 and also she’s just the 14th instructor in NCAA Department I background to get to the turning point. Weekly presently rates 6th amongst energetic head instructors in job success.
“It has to do with having wonderful gamers, a great deal of wonderful gamers over a great deal of years of training,” Weekly claimed. “Fantastic aide instructors, wonderful assistance personnel throughout, wonderful managers that sustain the program all over that I have actually trained. Undoubtedly 99.9% or even more of those victories have actually been along with my hubby, Ralph, to ensure that that was possibly one of the most unique component of having the ability to do it with him, yet you do not win video games without extraordinary gamers and also gamers that simply actually acquire right into what you desire.”
Tennessee
Auburn flips Tennessee football commitment and defensive tackle Darrion Smith
Auburn football flipped three-star defensive tackle Darrion Smith from Tennessee on National Signing Day on Wednesday for the 2025 class.
Smith had been committed to Tennessee since July 30.
The 6-foot-2, 265-pound Smith is a three-star recruit according to 247Sports Composite. A Maryland product, Smith attends St. Frances Academy, with fellow Auburn commits Blake Woodby and Bryce Deas.
Adam Sparks is the Tennessee football beat reporter. Email adam.sparks@knoxnews.com. X, formerly known as Twitter@AdamSparks. Support strong local journalism by subscribing at knoxnews.com/subscribe.
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Cade Phillips is a star role player for Tennessee basketball. How he’s affecting the Vols
Cade Phillips was 40 feet away from the rim when he pointed at it Tuesday.
The Tennessee basketball forward saw what was going to happen when he was still a long ways off. Guard Zakai Zeigler had the ball on the opposite wing when Phillips pointed. He held his left arm high as Zeigler then tossed a lob from the elbow.
Phillips sailed, snared it with two hands and slammed it. The sophomore played it perfectly — just as he has been doing often this season in his increasingly essential role.
“When Cade checks in, it is just like a boost of energy,” senior guard Chaz Lanier said. “He is super athletic — probably one of the most athletic people I have played with. Just a boost of energy and intensity.”
Phillips is a star as a role player for Tennessee, which was on full display again for No. 3 Tennessee (8-0) as it smashed Syracuse (4-3) by a score of 96-70 on Tuesday at Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center.
How Cade Phillips is starring in his role for Tennessee
Phillips can define the core of his role well.
“I think is is to be as versatile on both ends of the floor as possible,” Phillips said.
There is something to be said for a player who knows his role. There is even more to be said for a player who does it well. Phillips deserves recognition for both during Tennessee’s torrid eight-game start to the season.
“The more and more he is out there … he is feeling more and more at ease doing some things,” Vols coach Rick Barnes said.
Offensively, Phillips maximizes who he is as a 6-foot-9 forward. He runs and cuts hard. He is strong enough now to bump defenders with a hard dribble and score through contact — he did both in his 10-point first half Tuesday. He’s a solid floor-spacer.
On the other end, the Alabama native is a potentially diabolical defender. Barnes has voiced the Vols view Phillips as a Jahmai Mashack-caliber player. In other words, Phillips can guard all five positions on the court but as a forward. That ability comes from athleticism and length.
He rebounds ferociously on both ends and it is an innate skill for him.
But it all comes back to versatility.
“As the season is progressing, I am getting more and more comfortable I feel like,” Phillips said.
What is next for Cade Phillips?
Phillips wasn’t supposed to play last season. He was going to redshirt then the senior pair of Santiago Vescovi and Josiah-Jordan James insisted Phillips would help the Vols. He did early as a freshman then his role diminished later in the season.
Vescovi’s reasoning was Phillips was so active he could play immediately. That is what earned Phillips trust. That remains part of the process.
“It gets down to the more consistency you get doing certain things, you earn trust,” Barnes said. “Not only I think with your coaches and your teammates, but most importantly with yourself. You realize I have this down now and I can take another step.
“We have watched Cade do that.”
Phillips is averaging 7.4 points and 4.8 rebounds in 18.3 minutes per game, a stellar stat line as he splits time between UT’s two forward positions. He is tied for the team lead with 20 offensive rebounds, which is more than his 18 defensive rebounds. He has nine blocks and only nine fouls, a great ratio to possess.
Barnes expects that an expanded offensive game is out there for Phillips. That’ll be a process. The immediate focus is handling success well as it keeps coming.
“Cade is going to do everything he can,” Barnes said. “He has got a little bit of a stubborn streak where when he messes up, he wants to come back and fix it right away.”
On second thought, it’s something else — and something central to Phillips perfecting his role as he develops.
“It is probably more of a competitive spirit,” Barnes.
Mike Wilson covers University of Tennessee athletics. Email him at michael.wilson@knoxnews.com and follow him on X @ByMikeWilson or Bluesky @bymikewilson.bsky.social. If you enjoy Mike’s coverage, consider a digital subscription that will allow you access to all of it.
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State breaks ground on new forestry work center in West Tennessee – WBBJ TV
HARDEMAN COUNTY, Tenn. — A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry.
The event celebrated a new work center to be located at 1865 Fire Tower Road near Henderson.
The facility will serve as the headquarters for all forest management operations at Chickasaw State Forest, as well as landowner assistance programs, vendor services and wildland fire control operations in the region.
It’ll house administrative offices and wildland firefighting equipment storage facilities and provide a meeting space for training, outreach activities, and educational events.
“Our mission at division of forestry is to protect, conserve, enhance Tennessee’s forests and these work centers are just another way that the state is investing in that mission,” said Heather Slayton, Tennessee state forester and assistant commissioner for the Forestry Division.
State and local officials, as well as Smokey Bear, were also on hand to celebrate the groundbreaking of this new facility.
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