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How To Watch: Tennessee vs. Cincinnati in NCAA Tournament Knoxville Regional

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No. 1 Tennessee will face No. 3 Cincinnati on Saturday in a 6 p.m. Eastern Time start in the NCAA Tournament’s Knoxville Regional at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The game will be live streamed by ESPN+.

The Vols opened their national championship defense with a 9-2 win over No. 4 Miami (Ohio) on Friday.  Cincinnati (33-24) jumped out to an 8-0 lead after two innings against No. 2 Wake Forest (36-21) on the way to an 11-6 win Friday afternoon. 

Wake Forest will face Miami (Ohio) in an elimination game — the four-team bracket is a double elimination format — on Saturday at Noon Eastern Time on ESPN+.

How To Watch: Tennessee vs. Cincinnati

Start Time: Saturday, 6 p.m. Eastern Time

TV: TBD

Streaming: ESPN+

Radio: WNML-FM 99.1 in Knoxville. The Vol Network radio broadcast can be heard on local affiliates across the state of Tennessee.

Saturday’s Tennessee-Cincinnati winner will need another win Sunday against either Wake Forest or Miami (Ohio) to advance to next week’s Super Regional round.

The Vols, who are hosting regional play for the fourth time in five seasons, are now 10-0 in NCAA Tournament regional games at Lindsey Nelson Stadium during the Tony Vitello era.

Tennessee 9, Miami (Ohio) 2

Reese Chapman opened the scoring with a solo home run in the bottom of the second. Miami (Ohio) tied the game in the top of the third, but the Vols took control with two runs in the bottom of the inning, the broke the game open with a five-run fourth. 

Gavin Kilen scored on a bases-loaded walk in the third before Chapman added a sacrifice fly to score Andrew Fischer. 

Fischer, Hunter Ensley and Dalton Bargo had RBI singles in the fourth and Chapman scored Hensley on a fielder’s choice. 

Liam Doyle (10-3) got the win after giving up one earned run on four hits. He had 11 strikeouts against three walks while facing 26 batters. Austin Breedlove faced one batter and Andrew Behnke pitched the final two innings to close the game. 

Cincinnati 11, Wake Forest 6 

Cincinnati hit a pair of two-run home runs in a six-run second inning Friday afternoon and added another two-run shot in the fifth in the 11-6 win over Wake Forest. 

Nathan Taylor got the win after giving up five runs on seven hits over six innings. Centerfielder Derrick Pitts finished 2-for-5 with four RBI and a run scored. 

Pitts had a two-run single in the first to put the Bearcats ahead early and added to the lead with a two-run home run in the second, making it an 8-0 game. 

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