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Starting Lineup

Here’s four quick takeaways from Tennessee’s game one win over Rhode Island on Friday afternoon:

Rounding 1st — Tennessee breaks it open in the eighth

Tennessee jumped out to an 8-2 lead over Rhode Island in the third inning. The bats were quiet over the next several innings, however, as the Rams managed to push two more runs across in the seventh to make it a two-run game.

The Vols scored nine runs an inning and a half later to end any threat Rhode Island had of an upset. Six different Vols drove in a run in the inning. Seth Stephenson did so twice, hitting an RBI triple to get things going before later hitting a two-run single in the frame.

For the game, Tennessee hit .429 with two outs, .571 with runners on, .500 with runners in scoring position and .667 with a runner on third and less than two outs.

Rounding 2nd — Chase Burns makes fourth start

Freshman RHP Chase Burns (W, 1-0) made his fourth career start a week after showing well against No. 1 Texas. Burns struggled with his command at times, but still managed to not allow an earned run over five innings. He did give up two runs off of errors.

Burns walked four, gave up four hits and struck out six.

Rounding 3rd — Camden Sewell and Wyatt Evans in relief

Camden Sewell followed up Burns in Houston last weekend against the top-ranked Longhorns and things didn't go according to plan for the senior righty.

Sewell bounced back with a solid outing against Rhode Island in the first game of the series. He pitched three innings and gave up two earned runs. Sewell allowed four hits, but didn't walk anybody and struck out two.

Headed for Home — Let's play two

Tennessee took game one of Friday's doubleheader to win its fifth game in a row and improve to 13-1 on the season. The Vols and Rams are playing a doubleheader on Friday and not playing on Saturday due to snow projected in the forecast. They'll reconvene on Sunday for the series finale at 12:30 or 1 p.m. ET.

Game two of the doubleheader is set to begin 45 minutes after game one. Vols righty Chase Dollander will start on the mound.

Key Plays:

B-1st: Rhode Island 0, Tennessee 1 (+1)

Tennessee loaded the bases in the bottom of the first and only pushed one run across on a sacrifice fly from Luc Lipcius.

B-2nd: Rhode Island 0, Tennessee 3 (+2)

After Blake Burke was hit by a pitch to start the inning, Logan Steenstra hit a two-run home run to extend Tennessee's lead to 3-0.

T-3rd: Rhode Island 2 (+2), Tennessee 3

Rhode Island gets on the board with a pair of runs as a result of a pair of self-inflicted wounds from the Vols. With runners on first and second, Chase Burns got a ground ball to first and after Luc Lipcius got the runner out at second, Burns dropped the return throw to first to prevent the double play and allow the runner on second to come around to score.

Then, with runners on the corners and two outs, Evan Russell dropped a 3-1 pitch right down the middle that resulted in a pass ball and the Rhode Island runner to score from third to make it a one-run game.

B-3rd: Rhode Island 2, Tennessee 8 (+5)

Tennessee scored five runs in the third to open things up. Evan Russell hit an RBI double, Blake Burke hit an RBI double, Logan Steenstra hit an RBI single and Jared Dickey hit a two-run homer to cap off the inning.

T-7th: Rhode Island 4 (+2), Tennessee 8

After neither team scored for three innings, Rhode Island added two runs in the seventh. The Rams led off the inning with a double and then pushed the run across on a single. They then hit an RBI groundout to cut the Vols' lead to four.

B-8th: Rhode Island 4, Tennessee 16 (+8)

Tennessee permanently broke the game open with six runs in the bottom of the eighth.

Seth Stephenson hit an RBI triple to get the inning going before Jordan Beck hit an RBI single, Trey Lipscomb hit an RBI double and then scored on an error, Cortland Lawson hit an RBI single, Blake Burke scored on a wild pitch, Stephenson hit a two-run single and Ethan Payne hit an RBI single.

Final Box Score

This Week's Schedule

Tuesday, March 8

Midweek game – James Madison (8) vs. No. 10 Tennessee (9) -- F(10)

Wednesday, March 9

Midweek game – James Madison (2) vs. No. 10 Tennessee (10)

Friday, March 11

Game 1 – Rhode Island vs. No. 10 Tennessee -- 2 p.m. ET

Game 2 – Rhode Island vs. No. 10 Tennessee -- 45 minutes after Game 1

Sunday, March 13

Game 3 – Rhode Island vs. No. 10 Tennessee -- 12 or 1 p.m. ET