Kat Dotson home runs and dominant pitching were the constants in Tennessee’s softball wins Saturday in the Buccaneer Invitational from North Charleston, S.C.
In the first game of the day, a 9-0, five-inning affair against UNC-Wilmington (6-10), Dotson connected on a two-run home run to push the seventh-ranked Lady Vols’ lead to 9-0 in the third inning.
Melissa Davin and Madison Shipman joined Dotson for the team lead in RBIs in the game with two apiece. Davin was the only Lady Vol with two hits and Shipman notched a two-run home run in the second inning.
Cheyanne Tarango went all five innings, allowing just one hit and striking out five to improve her record to 3-1.
In the Lady Vols’ 5-0 victory over Valparaiso in the second game, Dotson launched a three-run home-run to give UT (18-3) a 5-0 lead in the sixth.
Ellen Renfroe struck out six in her complete-game three-hitter against the Crusaders. Coming into the game, Valparaiso had six players hitting .333 or better, but Renfroe was only allowing opposing batters to hit for a .188 average in eight starts.
Raven Chavanne had three steals between the two games to up her total to 16 on 16 attempts this season. As is her M.O., Chavanne got the Lady Vols’ offense cranked up in both games by scoring runs in each first inning.
Tennessee wraps up play in the Buccaneer Invitational today against Charleston Southern at 3 p.m. The Lady Vols beat the host Buccaneers 8-1 on Friday.
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AlexAndersonAAradio writes:
No articles point out the most bizarre thing that happened. Against Valparaiso, after Kat hit the 3 run blast, Lauren Gibson got a face full of softball from the pitcher. It was her second hit batsman of the game and Ralph charged the field demanding the girl be tossed. Valparaiso meanwhile, thought Ralph was bulling the umpires and called for the tournament administrator to get involved. Then that's when my internet stream of Stephen K. Lee went out but it did appear a new pitcher was in when the broadcast returned. I just don't understand why this isn't mentioned in any articles on these games. There is no good coverage for softball. These 2 paragraph pages don't come close to telling you the story of what goes on in these games. Last week at UCLA there was all kinds of pandamoniam in that game but you can only hear about it on message boards.
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