Tennessee baseball announces two fall exhibitions
Fresh off the first national championship in program history, Tony Vitello has announced a pair of fall exhibitions across the state of Tennessee that the squad will take part in during the fall practice window in October.
Taking place during the second BYE week of the football season, Tennessee’s first action will come against Western Kentucky in Nashville on Friday, October 25. Two days later on Sunday, October 27, the Vols will challenge Troy in Jackson, Tenn.
Tennessee and the Hilltoppers will play at First Horizon Park, which is home to the Nashville Sounds – the Triple-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. UT recently played an exhibition contest at the park last year against Samford prior to the 2024 campaign. Sunday’s exhibition between the Vols and Trojans will take place at Jackson Baseball Stadium, which serves as the home ballpark of the Jackson Rockabillys of the Prospect League. UT played Memphis in an exhibition in the stadium two years ago.
Official game times and ticket information will be announced at a later date.
The Vols (60-13) finished the 2024 season with the first national championship in program history in thier seventh trip to the College World Series and became the first team from the Southeastern Conference to eclipse the 60-win marker in a single season. Tennessee went an impressive 10-2 in the NCAA Baseball Tournament and snapped the ‘curse’ of No. 1 overall seeds not winning the title, a streak that dated back to Miami in 1999.
Tennessee’s 60 wins were the most of any team since Florida State in 2002 and the most of any national champion since Wichita State in 1989.
It was the second straight trip to the College World Series in Omaha for Tennessee (60-13), the third in four years and the first time the Vols played for a national title since their first trip there in 1951.
Vitello has rewritten the Tennessee Baseball record books, leading the country the last four seasons in wins (211), win percentage (.773), NCAA Tournament wins (25) and home runs (566).
The Vols won everything they could last season, winning the SEC’s regular-season championship, the SEC Tournament championship, Knoxville Regional and Knoxville Super Regional en route to a national championship.
