Tennessee’s baseball season ending, a career-ending football injury, and basketball scheduling highlight the Vols’ news on Rocky Top for Wednesday, May 25.
Happy Hump Day to everybody. It’s the last one in May for the year 2016. But unfortunately, the news for this Wednesday is not all happy on Rocky Top.
The Tennessee Volunteers athletics programs are dealing with a season-ending loss and a career-ending injury on this day. These are things that nobody ever wants to deal with.
But there is some other interesting news, including a basketball schedule update and some news about Tennessee football’s assistant coaches.
Let’s start with the most fresh update, though: baseball.
Tennessee baseball season ends with 5-4 loss to LSU – Drew Champlin of GoVols
"Tennessee threw three LSU players out at the plate, benefitted from three Tiger errors and had a true freshman hold a lethal offense scoreless until the seventh inning.But the No. 12 seed Volunteers couldn’t hold on to a four-run lead and saw their season end with a 5-4 heartbreaking loss to the fifth-seeded Tigers at the SEC Tournament at the Hoover Met in Hoover, Ala."
Tennessee Football RB Joe Young Has Career-Threatening Injury – Wes Rucker of 247Sports
"Tennessee sophomore running back Joe Young’s career-threatening injury is believed to be in his neck area, according to a Tuesday tweet from longtime Knoxville radio personality Jimmy Hyams.“Vols freshman RB Joe Young suffered injury near neck. Source: ‘It’s safe to say his career is over.’ Young played in 5 games last year,” Hyams tweeted."
Tennessee Basketball to Host K-State in SEC/Big 12 Challenge – UTSports
"The Southeastern Conference and ESPN announced the date and matchups for the 2017 SEC/Big 12 Challenge, presented by Sonic, Tuesday. Tennessee hosts Kansas State at Thompson-Boling Arena on Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017.Tip times and specific TV network designations for all SEC/Big 12 Challenge games will be announced at a later date. However, all games will be televised on an ESPN platform."
Tennessee Football Coaches Spend Time With the Steelers – Wes Rucker of 247Sports
"Several of Tennessee’s assistant coaches were with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Tuesday, and they posed for a picture with a couple of former Vols linemen who play for the iconic NFL franchise.First-year Vols defensive coordinator Bob Shoop — a Pittsburgh-area native and lifelong, diehard Steelers, Pirates and Penguins fan — tweeted a picture of himself, offensive line coach Don Mahoney, defensive backs coach Willie Martinez, and wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator Zach Azzanni with former Vols defensive tackle Daniel McCullers and former Vols offensive lineman Ramon Foster."