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KNOXVILLE, TN (utsports.com) – No. 9 Tennessee run-ruled ETSU, 12-0, in five innings Tuesday night at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium.<\/p>\n

Tennessee (33-6) had three different Lady Vols mash four home runs on the night. The trio included\u00a0Emma Clarke\u00a0with two, as well as\u00a0Gabby Leach\u00a0and\u00a0Maddi Rutan\u00a0with one apiece.<\/p>\n

Three Lady Vols had perfect nights at the plate as UT scattered 12 hits. Clarke went three-for-three with two homers and three RBIs, while Leach and Faw each went two-for-two. Leach recorded a double and two RBIs in addition to her homer, while Faw posted two singles and an RBI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sage Mardjetko\u00a0surpassed 100 strikeouts on the year with 13 on the night. She held ETSU (15-17) scoreless, limiting them to one hit and two walks across five innings. The junior’s dominant showing earned her eighth win of the year. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The Lady Vols wasted no time taking the lead. Tennessee got on base with a leadoff walk from Leach and a single by Clarke. A single up the middle by\u00a0Elsa Morrison\u00a0scored Leach to put the Big Orange on the board early.<\/p>\n

Tennessee kept the momentum going with walks by\u00a0Meredith Barnhart\u00a0and\u00a0Makenzie Butt\u00a0to tack on another run. A sac fly from\u00a0Taelyn Holley\u00a0and a single by Faw extended the lead to 4-0.<\/p>\n

A pair of homers propelled the Lady Vols to a 7-0 lead to start the second. Leach proved once again to be clutch in the leadoff spot as she blasted a homer to right field for her seventh of the year. Clarke quickly responded with a two-run blast over the scoreboard.<\/p>\n

Back-to-back doubles from\u00a0Saviya Morgan\u00a0and Leach gave way to another Lady Vol run to in the third.<\/p>\n

Later, Clarke fired her second Big Orange blast of the night and eighth of the year to lead off the fourth.\u00a0Jackie Kirkpatrick\u00a0reached on a walk and rounded the bases on a double by Butt to add Tennessee’s tenth run of the game.<\/p>\n

Rutan homered to tack on a pair of runs for the Lady Vols later in the frame to cap the year.<\/p>\n

DUE UP<\/p>\n

Tennessee will be back in action Tuesday night for another midweek contest against Kennesaw State. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m. ET on SEC Network+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennessee Athletics KNOXVILLE, TN (utsports.com) – No. 9 Tennessee run-ruled ETSU, 12-0, in five innings Tuesday night at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2325,2413,2335,57,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,35196,2307,2327,2321,185,2324,2311,8161,2045,2312,4121,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-669732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baseball-competitions","12":"tag-baseball-events","13":"tag-baseball-finals","14":"tag-baseball-games","15":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","16":"tag-baseball-teams","17":"tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","18":"tag-home-run","19":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","25":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","26":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-mlb-playoffs","29":"tag-mlb-postseason","30":"tag-october-in-sports","31":"tag-outdoor-sports","32":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","33":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-sports-events","36":"tag-team-sports","37":"tag-tennessee-lady-volunteers-basketball","38":"tag-tennessee-volunteers-football","39":"tag-turf-sports","40":"tag-university-of-tennessee","41":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}