KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Dominant pitching and well timed hitting led No. 11/12 Tennessee to a 7-0 midweek win over Western Carolina on Tuesday night time at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

The Volunteers (16-6) recorded their sixth shutout of the season and held the Catamounts (9-12) to simply 4 hits to kick off the homestand and finish a three-game skid. Within the final 5 conferences between the 2 groups in Knoxville, WCU has been held to simply 5 complete runs scored.

Zander Sechrist offered the Massive Orange with one other strong midweek begin, tossing 3.2 scoreless innings with 4 strikeouts earlier than making means for the bullpen, which restricted WCU to a single hit and allowed simply 4 batters to succeed in base over the ultimate 5.1 innings to protect the shutout.

Aaron Combs was credited with the win to enhance to 3-0 on the yr after hanging out a pair in 1.1 hitless innings of aid. Kirby Connell, AJ Russell, Jake Fitzgibbons, Hollis Fanning, Jacob Bimbi and Andrew Lindsey all adopted with scoreless aid outings.

Christian Scott received the beginning nod in heart subject and did slightly little bit of every thing for Tennessee offensively with a house run, two walks, three runs scored and a pair of stolen bases. His solo blast within the backside of the second inning opened the scoring and proved to be the one run the Vols would want on the night time.

Cal Stark additionally homered for UT, his second lengthy ball of the season, whereas Austen Jaslove, Jake Kendro, Christian Moore and Ryan Miller additionally had one RBI apiece.

The Vols scored 4 of their seven runs and had 4 of their seven hits with two outs.

Western Carolina starter Dante Visconti was caught with the loss regardless of pitching properly, permitting only one run on one hit in three innings whereas ending with 4 strikeouts.

UP NEXT: Tennessee will look to earn its first SEC victory of the yr on Friday night time when it begins a three-game weekend collection in opposition to No. 12/21 Texas A&M at 6:30 p.m. on SEC Community+ and the ESPN app.