Diamond Vols Podcast: Opening weekend of SEC play ends in frustration for Tennessee baseball

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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GoVols247's Ben McKee and former Tennessee baseball pitcher Will Heflin react on the latest Diamond Vols Podcast to UT's frustrating series loss at Georgia to begin SEC play.

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0:00.0	Welcome into the Diamond Falls podcast on GoVals247.com. I'm Ben McKee and I am joined by the great Will Heflin, former Tennessee baseball pitcher who signed as a two-way star for the Vols, but ended up being an excellent number 11 and baseball pitcher.
0:26.5	Will, how are you, my friend? I'm good, Ben. I signed as a pitcher and then was asked to start hitting after my first semester, and then I hit for one semester,
0:37.0	and then when that coaching staff left
0:40.9	I just went back to just pitching I did not know that I did not know that you signed as a pitcher
0:46.3	I learned something new every day yeah which that's a whole different conversation why I spent an
0:54.0	entire fall not hitting and then,
0:56.0	you know, you get back from Christmas break and you've got less than six weeks before the season starts.
1:03.7	And you pick up a bat and go try to hit SEC pitching.
1:07.9	It's not the greatest plan, not making excuses.
1:12.5	Was that the first time that you had hit since your senior season?
1:16.2	Yeah.
1:17.5	How many SEC had bats do you own in your career?
1:20.7	Do you know?
1:22.1	I had like 35 for the whole year.
1:25.2	I would say 10 to 15 of them were SEC.
1:32.0	Any hits in SEC play?
1:34.5	Yeah.
1:35.4	One off your boy, Kyle Wright.
1:36.7	We share that.
1:38.0	Oh, yeah, that's right.
1:39.2	I forgot about that.
1:40.7	Any home runs?
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