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Beam Earns Pair Of SEC Honors While Tennessee Baseball Stays No. 1

Tennessee right-hander Drew Beam is the SEC Freshman and Pitcher of the Week after dominating in the Vols’, 5-0, series finale win over Vanderbilt.

The Murfreesboro native allowed just two hits and no walks while recording a complete game shutout as Tennessee secured the series sweep.

“I felt like I had good control today,” Beam said. “The last few weeks I’ve been commanding the offspeed and fastball pretty well and I think tonight we just mixed it up really well and continuing to show good things.”

The freshman was dominant, facing just three batters with runners on base while not allowing a single Vanderbilt batter to reach scoring position. Beam became the first Vol to throw a complete game shutout since Garrett Stallings did so against Georgia and Ole Miss in 2019.

This becomes Beam’s first SEC Pitcher of the Week honor but the former Blackman High School standout earned SEC Freshman of the Week honors on March 21.

Beam has a 6-0 record and 0.88 ERA through his first seven starts of his college career and has been the biggest surprise for Tennessee in the first half of the season.

“I think when we recruited him we saw the guy we saw today,” Tennessee head coach Tony Vitello said. “Three pitch mix was definitely something at a young age he kind of already had going on. … He kind of had all the makings of a weekend starter at some point, but sometimes guys make up their own timeline or own grid there with work ethic and also presence.”

After its weekend sweep at Ole Miss, Tennessee climbed to No. 1 in every major college baseball ranking last week. The Vols’ defended their No. 1 ranking in a big way last weekend, sweeping rival Vanderbilt in Nashville.

Tennessee became the first team to sweep the Commodores in Nashville since 2012 and the first SEC team to sweep them at Hawkins Field since the Vols did it in 2009.

With its 4-0 week — expanding its winning streak to a program best 19 games — Tennessee is back as the No. 1 team in the country in every major ranking this week.

The Vols top D1Baseball, Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball News, the USA Today’s Coaches Poll  and Perfect Game. The National College Baseball Writer’s Association has yet to announce its weekly rankings as of publication. After 30 of 31 voters had Tennessee as their top team in last weeks Coaches Poll, all 31 voters had Tennessee at No. 1 Monday.

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