Sophomore left fielder Melissa Davin hit a pair of three-run home runs to rally the No. 9 Tennessee softball team past Western Michigan, 9-6 on Sunday in their final game of the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz.
Davin's second homer, the game-winner, came in the bottom of the sixth inning with the game tied 6-6.
Tennessee (5-1) finished the season-opening event 5-1 overall, including a 3-0 victory over No. 1-ranked Arizona State on Saturday.
The Lady Vols played the entire weekend without injured All-Americans Raven Chavanne and Kat Dotson.
Ellen Renfroe (5-0) picked up the win for the Lady Vols, giving up five earned runs on six hits and striking out 12. Meredith Whitney gave up eight earned runs on nine hits, walked 11 batters and took the loss for Western Michigan (1-4).
Renfroe pitched 31 innings during the weekend, striking out 48 and posting a 1.13 ERA.
Lauren Gibson put Tennessee up 1-0 first a solo home run in the first inning. Davin stretched the lead to 4-0 with her third-inning home run before Western Michigan put together a five-run rally in the fourth inning highlighted by a three-run homer by Diane Patterson. Madison Shipman scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the fourth to tie the game 5-5. Shipman then gave Tennessee a 6-5 lead when she knocked in Davin with a single.
Patterson hit her second homer of the game in the top of the sixth to make the score 6-6, setting up Davin's game-winner in the bottom of that inning.
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Comments » 18
WaVol writes:
Nice work.
papavol writes:
Huge win, looks like this team is as advertised!
VFL70 writes:
These LVs are exciting; lets hope they can go all the way to Big Dance (in softball of course).
RashaadSalabeb writes:
That's great. Bring on Alabama and Florida!
UT Lady Vols rock!
vol4gzus writes:
We need more than one pitcher to get that run realistically speaking. If Tarango(SP) or Ivy can get her groove back we have a good shot as all this has taken place without services of Raven.....
VOLsince68 writes:
That is awesome news. Way to go Lady Vols!!!
Fall_Creek_Vols writes:
Sure hope so. Early results are promising.
Go Lady Vols! I'll be watching.
SummittsCourt writes:
Always great beating #1 ranked teams. Go Lady Vols!
VOODOOley-2011 (Inactive) writes:
Way to Go Renfroe, and Go Lady Vols!
PureOrange writes:
Ellen has been outstanding. Hope Ivy gets back to her freshman year pitching. We are missing a couple of hitters now, but hope they get back in soon. Good wins.
Now finish off Western Michigan.
wigmeister writes:
You go girls. That a way to kick some A.
volstudent24 writes:
Ellen pitched a great game! And the offense put up three without the assistance of All-Americans Raven and Kat, not too bad! Ivy will settle in as the season progresses, Cheyanne will burst on the scene as a pitcher and Ellen will continue her All-American status on our road back to the WCWS!!!
givehim6 writes:
At a time UT athletics needs all the good news it can get men or Lady's, A great win! Good Job.
marinevol writes:
A very talented group, and one of the best looking teams in college athletics.
waldeen_hinson#435189 writes:
Way to go Lady Vols!! Love to watch you play!
GREAT WIN!! GREAT WEEKEND!!!
GO LADY VOLS!!
dj54 writes:
wat to go ladies! SHOW EVERYONE how good you can be, keep up the good work
hcjournals#206623 writes:
Beat #1. Be #1...
Jblue writes:
Great job lady vols ,, this team is going to be scary good when they get their two lead off all-American hitters back in full force . You can tell this team has fight in them facing adversity and comebacks in this tournament alone . ATTENTION TO THE SOFTBALL NATION ,, GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER B/C THE VOLS ARE HERE!!!
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