Three top-5 teams drop series in busy weekend of April baseball

Three top-5 teams drop series in busy weekend of April baseball


Three top-5 teams drop series in busy weekend of April baseball

The Easter weekend provided another exciting advancing of university baseball matches, specifically in the sec, including two top teams that fall.

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Kentucky wins the series on No. 4 Tennessee

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For the first time in almost ten years, Kentucky Baseball is heading home with the victory of the Knoxville series.

Wildcats limited the courageous Easter weekend with 8-2 ​​victories over No. 4 Tennessee, secured the 2-1 series and won the first victory in the series against VOLS since 2016.

Behind the beginning of Ben Cleaver and the late offensive efforts of Kentucky (22-15, 8-10 seconds) he opened a close game with five runs over the last two shifts. Cleaver threw seven strong frames and set off seven and at the same time limited Tennessee (33-7, 12-6) to two runs to five hits.

VOLS ‘EARLY MISCUES set the tone. Wild playgrounds, a few walks and a field error helped Kentucky to get a 3-0 lead in four shifts. Hunter Ensley’s two-run Homer in the sixth reduction of deficit at 3-2, but Wildcats silenced any hope of a comeback with three-run eighth and two more in the ninth.

Griffin Cameron descended from the bench to intervene in the ninth RBI double RBI, while Carson Hansen went 2: 3 with double and scored. Devin Burkes added two hits, a stolen base and RBI, and Patrick Herrera rode another with a basic intervention.

On the hill Simon Gregersen has seen the last six out to close Kentucky the most impressive victory of the season.

It was a harsh day for the Vold playground, which gave three walks and allowed 11 hits. Freshman Starter Tegan Kuhns was persecuted after only 1.2 shifts and Tennessee made two expensive defense mistakes.

With the victory of the series, Kentucky now owns four victories over the top 10 teams and is still rising after facing one of the most difficult opening sections of SEC. Cats have now won five of their last six games.

Texas A&M remains hot, wins series over No. 2 Arkansas

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Texas A&M continued his red upper game in April and after the monstrous performance of the JACE Laviolette Junior Center Vybíral chose the victory of the 2-1 series over Arkansas No. 2. The victory refers to the second best two rated series of the month, both on the road.

After the first two games, both teams settled the score in the rubber match.

In the second game of Saturday’s double head, Laviolette, she made a heavy lifting early for Texas A&M with two home runs in the first and fifth shift and razorbacks responded two escapes from the SAC flies. Entry to the sixth, Aggies led 3-2. At that time he turned it on the notch at the Baum-Walker stadium.

They gained six unanswered runs, three in the seventh and ninth to close the door to Arkansas. Junior second Baseman Ben Royo launched a 6-0 run with home during the right center of the field, while the third Baseman Wyatt Henseler hit the fly and Sophomore catcher Harrison hit the two-out RBI single in the right center.

Texas A&M would continue to win 9-2 and six players ended at least one RBI until the end of the competition. Aggies had 10 basic runners in the last three shifts compared to three razorbacks. Redshirt Sophomore right -handed Luke Jackson was elite in the finals, hit five in the last third and two -thirds of the shifts and gave up zero runs.

Laviolette played on a different level in the series, launched 0.417 with four home runs, seven RBIs and eight runs. Smowly, Tamu turned the season after the start of the subway. They won nine of their last 10 games and three direct victories of the series, including at the time. 1 Tennessee.

The latest Power ranking: Texas moves to No. 1, LSU will be in the 9th week of College Baseball Power 10

No. 19 Vanderbilt swells No. 5 Georgia

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No. 19 Vanderbilt has so far introduced his best series of the season and swept No. 5 Georgia to win his first series of the season.

Commodores gave Bulldogs who overwhelmed most rivals, their own medicine, and during these three games they overcame Georgia 21-10. And it all started on the back of the junior left -wing handra JD Thompson’s pitching performance in One.

After giving up home run in the first exchange, Vanderbilt’s ace settled and set the tone of the series and hit 14 over eight shifts. Commodores continued to win 3-1, and Thompson’s 14 strikes were most at every Vanderbilt jug in more than three years.

Commodores took a page from the book Uga in two, hit four home runs and seven RBI Masterclass since the first third Baseman Brodie Johnston. They won 13-7, emphasized by the sixth sixth shift.

Vanderbilt put it all into the final match of the series, closed Georgian bats and successfully performed with runners in a scoring position.

In addition to the two-out-one-run large flies Junior Riley Nelson in the fifth, Commodores scored their other three runs according to Fielder’s Choice, RBI single and SAC Bunt-last two in the seventh. RBI Single and Sac Bunt gave Vanderbilt 5-2 leadership entering the eighth, and the older right-hander Sawyer Hanks earned the sixth savings of the season, hit two and gave up zero running seven doughs he faced.

The Sweep series refers to the second opponent with the top five since the 2023 season.

No. 16 Oregon takes over the series via No. 10 UCLA

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16 Oregon bounced back on Easter Sunday with a win, rode on the late offensive increase to defeat No. 10 UCLA, 10-6, and took a series of 2-1 in PK park.

After the ducks (27-11, 14-7 Big Ta) were on Saturday’s loss. Mason Neville led the accusation of 3: 4 days, including the three-pound Homer in the fourth and double in the eighth, while Jacob Walsh and Anson Aros joined for four hits and three RBIs.

It was a game back and forth. UCLA took the lead 4-2 at the top of the fourth thanks to the solo homer by Carson Martin and a couple of RBI by Dean West and Roch Cholowsky. But Oregon overturned the mobility in the household half of the shift. Aros launched a solo shot before Neville’s three-run bomb gave the ducks of 6-4 leaders that would not give up.

Bruins deprived with the runs in the sixth and eighth, but Oregon Bullpen became firm. Reliéver Logan Mattox entered the eighth with a run on the base and pulled the ducks from the jam, then retired in the ninth to secure victory.

Oregon broke it open at the bottom of the eighth. Blake Mabeus crushed Homer’s solo to the left, Walsh drove another two with the only one, and Devin Smith added a sacrificial fly to make it 10-6.

Ducks Outhit UCLA 12-11 and each of Oregon’s five Hitters reached the base at least twice. Bruins stuck 11 runners and were held without scores above the final shift and a half.

This season, the fifth oregon over the opponent of the TOP-10, adds another victory of the series to his resume.




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