{"id":201625,"date":"2026-03-22T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201625\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T18:54:07","slug":"1-tennessee-falls-to-5-florida-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201625\/","title":{"rendered":"#1 Tennessee Falls to #5 Florida, 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 No. 1 Tennessee suffered its first SEC road series loss since 2023 on Sunday at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium, dropping a 3-2 decision to No. 5 Florida.
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\nThe series defeat snaps the Lady Vols’ streak of winning nine consecutive SEC series on the road.
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\nFlorida (31-2, 7-1 SEC) got on the board early with a solo home run from Taylor Shumaker in the bottom of the first inning.
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\nFrom there, the game settled into a pitcher’s duel as Tennessee starter Karlyn Pickens<\/a> and Florida’s Keagan Rothrock kept both offenses at bay until the fifth.
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\nThe Gators scratched across two runs in the fifth inning on a pair of walks, a fielder’s choice, a wild pitch and a single. Sage Mardjetko<\/a> entered the game with one away in the fifth and got the Lady Vols out of the frame with a strikeout and a groundout.
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\nPickens (7-2) finished her outing, allowing three runs on four hits with five strikeouts and five walks over 4.1 innings of work. She suffered the loss.
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\nTennessee (28-3, 6-3 SEC) fought back as Gabby Leach<\/a> ripped a two-run home run off the right field foul pole in the sixth, cutting the Gators’ lead to one.
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\nRothrock pitched a complete game for the Gators, giving up two runs on five hits with one walk and four strikeouts. She improved to 17-2 on the year with the win.
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\nMardjetko finished the outing for UT, tossing 1.2 frames. She did not allow a hit or a walk and struck out one.
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\nThe Lady Vols scattered five hits on the day with Gabby Leach<\/a> going 2-for-3 with a single and a home run, while Alannah Leach<\/a> and Makenzie Butt<\/a> picked up base knocks. Elsa Morrison<\/a> added a double to the hit tally in the seventh.
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\nDUE UP
\nTennessee returns home to Sherri Parker Lee Stadium on March 24 for a midweek game against in-state foe Tennessee Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 No. 1 Tennessee suffered its first SEC road series loss since 2023 on Sunday at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-201625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}