NCAA baseball tournament: Tennessee beats Southern Miss

Drew Beam threw six shutout inning against Southern Miss to pitch Tennessee baseball to its sixth College World Series berth. Vols will open vs. LSU.



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A couple points specific to the Vols, besides the LSU opening game: Since the Vols are playing Saturday, a loss on Saturday or Monday would create a busy schedule in order to make the CWS Finals. A team that begins on Saturday and loses one of its first two games has to play four games in four days to advance to the best-of-three national championship series.




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Southern Miss finally got something going against Drew Beam, with runners on first and third with no outs. Beam was replaced by Aaron Combs on the mound and delivered a strikeout to Etzel. With Dustin Dickerson at the plate, Tony Vitello brought in Chase Burns who delivered back-to-back strikeouts to escape the jam.



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Volunteers Beam up into the College World Series
Sophomore right-hander Drew Beam started on the mound for the Volunteers and was outstanding, shutting the potent Eagles' offense down over the first six innings of the contest, when he gave up five hits but walked only one while striking out seven. He left with runners on first and third after Southern Miss opened the seventh inning with a pair of singles.



Everything Tony Vitello said about Tennessee baseball punching its ticket to Omaha
“It was incredible. The moment before was pretty special. You have to have a lot of conversations in the dugout. He’s at 100 pitches. I don’t want to speak for them (USM), but I’d like to think they don’t want us to take him out of the game. That’s one way to think of it but he’s also earned the right to take ownership of the game so we sent him back out. Two seeing-eye singles and he gave me the stiff arm, but he doesn’t throw 100 like Burnsy. We took him out and that Combs deal, man, was incredible. First of all, it gave us time to get Chase hot. Chase came to the park saying he could get us three-to-six outs and he threw for us last night so we wanted him to finish the game for us basically. Come in maybe in the middle of the eighth and finish the thing. But you could see things start to develop. I couldn’t find Burns. If he were here you could ask him where he was but I couldn’t find him because I saw Dickerson coming up in the lineup. I shook his hand (Dickerson) out there. I love our players but that guy is a butt kicker to keep it PG-13. He’s a special guy. I hope they remember him forever around here and they might get to watch him on TV in the big leagues. With him coming up, I thought that was going to be a swing moment in the game so why not give it to the big dog right there? That emotion he shows is reminiscent of what took place earlier in an SEC weekend (Vanderbilt) for us and it helped swing this whole season. It gave the guys a rallying point. It gave other team’s something to fear at the end of the game and he did it again and it was pretty special. It lifted our guys and gave our guys confidence that we had ownership of the game. Sorry, I sound like Tom Izzo. Lot fewer wins than that guy but I sound like him.”












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