It had been a heavyweight bout all weekend in Gainesville, with Florida and Tennessee trading blows in a tightly-contested Super Regional that would send the eighth and final team to Oklahoma City for the 2019 Women’s College World Series.
And in the top of the seventh in Sunday’s Game 3, Tennessee appeared to have landed the biggest punch of the weekend. Slugger Haley Bearden connected with a Kelly Barnhill pitch and lifted it over the fence for the first home run of the Super Regional, tying the game at 1-1 and swinging confidence strongly toward the visiting Vols.