Tennessee knocks off Oklahoma in penultimate game of SEC season
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A rainy night in Oklahoma City on Friday pushed the Sooners' into Saturday before a winner could be determined in OU's penultimate game of the regular season against Tennessee.
Unfortunately for Oklahoma, the rain washed away the team's bats as the Volunteers won, 9-4, in a game that was postponed in the bottom of the seventh inning Friday and resumed Saturday at 1 p.m.
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OU's loss combined with Kentucky's loss and Vanderbilt's win created a three-way tie in the Southeastern Conference standings with all three teams sitting at 13-16 with one game apiece left before next week's SEC Tournament. None of the three teams can catch the next teams up in the standings, Tennessee and Ole Miss, meaning they'll finish in some combination of 11th, 12th and 13th in the final standings. The bottom eight seeds all must play a first-round game, while No. 5 through No. 8 seeds get an automatic bye into the second round and the top four seeds automatically qualify for the quarterfinals.
The good news for Oklahoma is that Friday/Saturday's loss likely doesn't alter their NCAA Tournament plans. The Sooners will make it and had largely been considered eliminated from hosting duties a few weeks ago. Still, OU will want to get its bats going next week before the NCAAs.
After scoring three runs in the first, Oklahoma didn't put another runner into scoring position until the sixth inning against the Vols. By that point, Tennessee had already responded with five runs against Oklahoma starter LJ Mercurius, who ultimately worked five innings, giving up four of those runs as earned on six hits and two walks.
The Volunteers led 5-3 when the game was postponed and tacked on two runs apiece in the eighth and ninth to seal things.
This article originally appeared on Sooners Wire: Tennessee beats Oklahoma in game postponed from Friday