Tennessee's offense by the numbers in game No. 1 win at Arkansas baseball
Four of the Vols' hits were home runs. Dalton Bargo went 2-for-4 and hit two home runs. He totaled three RBIs, two runs and one walk against the Razorbacks.
Dean Curley and Cannon Peebles also hit one home run each for Tennessee. Bargo (3), Curley (1), Gavin Kilen (1), Manny Marin (2) and Peebles (2) recorded RBIs in the series opener.
Tennessee batters struck out 11 times with four Vols striking out looking. The Vols totaled three two-out RBIs, left 11 runners on base, went 2-for-10 with two outs, 6-for-24 with runners on base and 3-for-10 with runners in scoring position.
Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello discussed his team's offensive production in Thursday's top 15 USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll matchup.
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'It was great,' Vitello said. 'We wanted to go with Grim (Blake Grimmer) for a lot of different reasons. You always get a calm presence with him, but Levi (Clark) stepped in and was massive. The guy underneath them, that's quite frankly out there, because he does a really good job with the glove with Manny (Marin), was also tremendous.
'Then each time the lineup turned over, it was a true team effort. I'm going off my own personal tangent, or the coach's tangent, but it really represented what we wanted tonight, was to kind of dedicate tonight's game, and hopefully a great effort and a win to Tony Dallas, who suffered from ALS and passed away. Chad Dallas was his son. Typically pitched for us on Friday nights or Thursday game one, and I don't know that we've had a better teammate than that kid since we've been here.'
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