Tennessee ties Kentucky atop the Southeastern Conference Baseball standings
With Tennessee’s 7-6 win over Vanderbilt on Saturday and Kentucky’s 10-1 loss to Florida, the Volunteers and Wildcats enter Sunday tied atop the leaderboard for the Southeastern Conference.
The two teams are obviously tied for first place in the SEC East as well. Depending on the outcome of Arkansas and Mississippi State on Saturday night, it will either be Tennessee and Kentucky leading the conference entering Sunday or a three-way tie with Arkansas as well.
UT and Kentucky both own 19-7 records inside SEC play while Arkansas, who plays Mississippi State Saturday night at 7 pm ET, could equal the record with a victory. The top-ranked Tennessee baseball team boast a 42-9 overall record while Kentucky sits at 36-11. The Razorbacks, entering Saturday, own a 41-9 record.
Tennessee, who has won eight-straight SEC series, took the series over Kentucky on the road three weeks ago, two games to one. The Vols have not and will not challenge Arkansas in the regular season.
The Vols host Belmont on Tuesday and South Carolina next weekend for the final four games of the regular season. Kentucky hosts Wright State on Tuesday and Vanderbilt over the weekend to conclude the regular season while Arkansas has no midweek game but will travel to Texas A&M next weekend to conclude the regular campaign.
If Tennessee and Kentucky ended the regular season tied, the Vols would own the tiebreaker as they took two of three games in their annual series this season. If Tennessee and Arkansas ended in a tie, the tiebreaker would go to the team with the better record against highest-seeded common opponent (Kentucky). Tennessee would own that tiebreaker.
If the three teams end in a three-way tie, the tiebreaker would go to the squad with the best record against the highest seeded team all three have played, which would likely be South Carolina.
Tennessee battled back on Friday to take game one over Vanderbilt 8-4 with five runs in the eighth inning. A pair of two-run home runs in the frame from Kavares Tears and Cannon Peebles was the difference. In game two, Christian Moore drove in five of Tennessee’s seven runs int he seesaw affair that ended 7-6 in favor of the visitors.
The Vols, who have won nine-straight over Vanderbilt, go for the series sweep Sunday at 3 o’clock eastern time.
