The No. 17 Tennessee (10-6) won its home-opening game Wednesday.
The Lady Vols defeated Tennessee Tech (9-6), 11-1, in five innings at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium.
The victory ended Tennessee’s three-game losing streak.
Tennessee scored five runs in the second inning. Amanda Curran recorded a pinch-hit three-run walk-off home run in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Curran’s home run was one of four in the game for Tennessee. Amanda Ayala, Rylie West and Zaida Puni also hit home runsfor Tennessee.
Ayala, the Lady Vols’ left fielder, went 3-for-3 with a home run and a triple. She scored one run and drove in a career-high five.
West went 2-for-3 with one home run, one double, two runs scored and one RBI.
Pitcher Erin Edmoundson improved to 6-1 this season. She pitched five innings, striking out four, while surrendering one hit and one walk.
Ryleigh White appeared in relief in the fourth inning and surrendered an RBI single to Sydney Dukes.