KNOXVILLE — For the second time in 2020, the University of Tennessee baseball team has scored more than 20 runs in a game.
The Volunteers kept their perfect record intact with a 28-2 victory over Longwood Tuesday night at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
Tennessee (13-0) pounded out 19 hits against the Lancers, including eight that went for extra bases.
Alerick Soularie clubbed a three-run homer to open the scoring for the Vols, who scored 23 runs in a victory over Western Illinois on Sunday, Feb. 16.
Soularie, Tennessee’s junior preseason all-American, went 2-for-5 and drove in four runs and scored three.
Zach Daniels also had a home run and a triple.
Drew Gilbert, Luc Lipcius, Liam Spence and Matt Turino all doubled for the Diamond Vols, who scored four runs in each of the first three innings. UT added five in the fifth and sixth frames. The Vols tallied six runs in the seventh to cap the day as Gilbert, Daniels, Soularie, Lipcius, Beck, Turino, Pete Derkay and Trey Lipscomb all recorded multiple hits against Longwood (3-10).
Gilbert, Daniels, Lipcius and Soularie each stole a base for the Big Orange, which hosts Wright State in a three-game set this weekend.
The 28 runs are the most scored by a Tennessee team since the Vols routed Morehead State on Feb. 14, 2004.
