MUST WIN: Freshman PHEMON Cam Appenzeller, Veteran ACE Evan Blanco, DOMINATE for Tennessee in Series-WIN

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Tennessee baseball needed a series win in the worst way over Missouri was able to rally behind elite pitching performances form Cam Appenzeller and Evan Blanco to do just that. Tennessee’s pitching is ALWAYS going to give the Vols a chance to win every game, but the offense is starting to come around with Stone Lawless and Levi Clark bringing some juice. What’s in story for Tennessee at Vanderbilt this weekend? And what’s the latest with South Carolina FIRING Paul Mainieri?

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0:00.0	We got our first coach fired. What's going on? You're talking ball with the SEC squad.
0:07.5	From Alabama to Tennessee, from Georgia to Oklahoma, from Auburn to Texas. It's the local experts of the locked on podcast network, bringing you scoops, breakdowns, and the most comprehensive preview of the upcoming SEC weekend.
0:22.5	It's the SEC Squad, and we have a seat for you.
0:26.2	Her feelings and thin skins are prohibited.
0:29.1	Squad up, you're part of the SEC Squad.
0:33.3	What is up?
0:34.4	Happy Tuesday, everybody.
0:35.5	Welcome into the SEC Squad baseball version. I am Eric Kane, host of Lockdown Balls. We have Corey Burton, host of Lockdown Vandy, Chris Marler, host of Lockdown Gamecox, and Stephen Willis, host of Lockdown Ole Miss coming at you. Again, here on our Tuesday, SEC weekend is in the books. We've got another SEC weekend to look forward to. We've got a midweek coming up tonight. A coach has been fired. We will get into that as we continue on. But first, let's go around the room. Let's go around the table here, discuss how our teams did this weekend. Chris, again, we'll talk about the big story with your team here in a moment, but obviously a lot of emotion, a pretty big weekend for you guys. And it ended on a high note there with a Sunday victory.
1:12.6	It should have ended with two on the heels of parting ways in the Nair.
1:17.2	You had a 2-1 lead against Arkansas in the ninth inning and just a routine ground ball
1:22.7	followed by an errant throw from one of your best players, which sucks.
1:25.9	But bad teams find ways to lose.
1:28.1	And that's what South Carolina is going to have to re-learn how to do, which is win.
1:32.0	But Benary being gone, it's weird because you guys have watched as much college baseball as
1:36.2	everybody.
1:36.7	It's like they were up on the top step for the entire game.
1:39.5	They were engaged.
1:40.4	They were excited.
1:41.2	They were home run celebrations.
1:42.8	And it was like, where has that been?
1:45.0	That's all very basic stuff. So it was good to see. Yeah, the one question that I would have about
1:50.2	South Carolina is Ray Tanner has to be the interim coach, right? I think that's how we got into this mess.
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