Tennessee’s offense scored all nine of its runs in innings four-through-seven — six of which were charged to Jonathan Cannon, the SEC’s leader in wins — and the Vols beat the Bulldogs 9-2 to take the game and the series.
The bottom of the batting order did the heavy lifting Friday night by accounting for seven of the Vols’ eight earned runs. Cannon held the offense to three hits and no runs through three innings, but Tennessee snuffed out his fuse in the fourth when the fellas made their second pass through the order.
Jorel Ortega doubled in Trey Lipscomb with one out in the fourth, and then Evan Russell hit his first bomb, a two-run shot, over the left-field fence after a Blake Burke groundout.