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Duo, Penny and Sparrow, performed Saturday afternoon at Jackson Terminal on the second day of Rhythm N’ Blooms music festival.

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Headliners bring warmth, light to Rhythm N’ Blooms Neeley Moore

Arts and Culture Editor Steadfast despite freezing temperatures, the headliners of Rhythm N’ Blooms sang to the anticipated spring on Saturday.

The second day of the festival was, without a doubt, the most anticipated. With performances from The Young Fables, Penny and Sparrow, The War & Treaty, LUTHI and Dr. Dog, the buzz for the day was evident the moment I arrived onsite. Musical performances started at 1 p.m. and continued until the last performance concluded at 2 a.m. in the morning.

Music from the Lonesome Dove Courtyard filled the streets of the Old City as people wrapped their hands around cups of coffee from the nearby Honeybee trailer or food from the numerous other food trucks serving all day long inside the festival’s parameters.

As I approached Jackson Terminal for Penny & Sparrow’s afternoon show, two hours after they had performed a secret show announced only minutes before the start, the venue was

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almost entirely full. At 4:45 p.m., the lively crowd was going strong as they shared conversations and laughter over beverages.

Yet, when Penny & Sparrow took the stage, the room was almost completely silent with attentive ears to the band’s soft, haunting vocals.

Penny & Sparrow, composed of Texas natives Andy Baxter and Kyle Jahnke, began their set with the title song of the most recent album, “Wendigo.”

The vast majority of Penny & Sparrow’s music is their vocals and one guitar played by Jahnke. Their vocal harmonies are powerful and leave a dark, almost eerie, sound. The lyrics that accompany the songs are no different. Many of their songs deal with themes that reflect sad stories, the somberness of love, religion and death.

The band does not let their songs overtake their performances, throwing humor into the segments between their songs and interacting with the crowd on a casual level.

“There has to be a lot of booze going around for the crowd to be so damn quiet and we’re thankful,” Baxter said.

Following some of their most known songs including “Finery” and “Duet,” the two sang

their song “Gold” and added a cover of Whitney Houston’s “I Want to Dance with Somebody” at the end.

When Jahnke’s guitar had a technical error, the two sang unplugged after urging the crowd to be quiet as possible.

“Thanks so much for caring about two guys and one guitar doing this,” Baxter said near the end of their set. “Thanks for listening to our songs and our dumb humor in between … this has been one of our weirder shows and I’m glad.”

Following Penny & Sparrow’s set and the warmth of a cup of coffee, I headed to the biggest headliner of the concert, Dr. Dog. Dr. Dog is a rock band based out of Philadelphia featuring Toby Leaman, Scott McMicken, Frank McElroy, Zach Miller and Eric Slick.

As the sun set over Jackson Avenue, the people of Rhythm N Blooms culimnated at the Cripple Creek stage to hear Dr. Dog’s set.

After a few minutes of sound checks, the band finally took the stage, beginning with one of their hit songs “Listening In.” McMicken took lead vocals for the song.

“It’s chilly, my fingers feel like bricks, rocks,

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something. You got a cure for that, doctor?”

MicMicken said jokingly, pointed toward Leaman.

The band continued their set, starting with classic songs that got the crowd singing along before eventually moving into some of their new music. Dr. Dog plans on releasing new music at the end of this month, for the first time in five years. They previewed several new songs from their upcoming album “Critical Equation.” The album arrives April 27.

As Dr. Dog performed, I couldn’t help but reflect on the heart of Rhythm N Blooms as they sang their song “Where’d all the time go?”

“See how the hands go / Waving goodbye,” the band sang as peoples’ hand’s waved in the air. Lights strung around the pit illuminated the swaying crowd, singing along.

Artists painted art with spray paint besides the main stage, and people sat in hammocks and casually listened behind the actual crowd as the power of Dr. Dog’s soft rock was louder than the nearby trains roaring past.

Despite the cold, Dr. Dog and other artists, brought warmth to the city through music.

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Cultural organizations host annual night market John Orona

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Cat Trieu

Copy Editor Culture Week concluded with the second annual 865 Night Market Friday evening.

Hosted by the Asian American Association (AAA), the Asian Studies Program and Campus Events Board (CEB), the market is a celebration of food, dance, arts and culture from over a dozen campus organizations.

“Essentially, the Asian night market is an event where student organizations can come out and showcase their culture, food and items,” Charles Briones, junior in political science, said. “It’s a nice event where student organizations can come together and show what they have. That is the essence of what a night market is.”

Rainy weather forced the typically open-air market into the Arts and Architecture atrium, but the function still drew in over 400 participants.

“We were really worried about the getting rained out and ruining everything,” sophomore studying nursing and secretary of AAA Juvi Mallari said. “But I think it’s even better inside.”

Mallari performed traditional Filipino dances along with her fellow Filipino American Association (FAA) members.

“In the Philippines, there’s a lot of different regions with different cultures,” Mallari said. “The first (dance) was a couples dance for peasants. The second one was a more mountain people, indigenous dance. The third one was one of Spanish culture, because the Philippines is heavily influenced by the Spanish. The last one was more modern, where we all danced together.”

FAA was just one of the several performing groups throughout the night, including hiphop duo StudyBreak Cypher and K-pop dance group Kascade. The event also showcased art from the Women’s Coordinating Council (WCC) studio arts senior George Habeib.

The assorted offering to the public was just what AAA president Mori Fukui, junior in human resource management, was hoping for when she organized the event, even though night markets are traditionally focused on Asian cultures.

“The reason we wanted to put on the event is to promote awareness of multicultural student organizations here and also promote diversity education,” Fukui said. “Our ultimate goal is that everyone feels really included, that people see that countries of Asian origin, or anywhere else, actually are being represented. I think it’s a really amazing thing to have because we really do need more diversity and inclusion here on campus.”

Briones agreed and said he believed that the inclusion of cultures from all over the world,

Top: Art from the Women’s Coordinating Council (WCC) studio arts senior George Habeib. John Orona / The Daily Beacon Below: The annual 865 Market was held on Friday evening in the Arts and Architecture atrium. Cat Trieu / The Daily Beacon rather than just Asia, represented UT’s commitment to diversity.

“It’s showing how these students … truly care about culture, diversity and just having a good time,” Briones said. “It just goes to show that we at the University of Tennessee are trying to meet that goal of diversity and trying to show that we here love culture.”

Authentic cuisine is a pillar of night markets, and most clubs with booths at the event offered traditional foods from their culture.

“Latino American Student Organization had really good and cheap churros that were amazing,” Natalie Guffey, junior in social work, said.

“I think German Club had bratwurst. That was interesting. FAA sold lumpia and performed earlier, and it was so fun and so exciting.”

As vice president for the Art and Culture

Committee of CEB, Guffey helped to organize the night market and said events like this contribute to a healthy campus atmosphere in light of recent divisive events at UT. “I think it brings people together since it’s obviously a positive environment,” Guffey said.

“If you can talk to someone from a different background, I think you should always be taking those kind of opportunities.”

With the night market’s success in the past two years, rain or shine, AAA hopes to continue this tradition into the future.

“We want this to be an annual thing, like the main thing for UT to have because there’s not a whole lot of events that showcase cultures and diversity,” Mallari said. “When people come to these kinds of events they see that there’s a space for them, a community for them.”

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Sex Week kicks off with art gallery to empower William Wells

Staff Writer Postmodern, and painfully familiar, culture is portrayed in “Send Nudes ;),” an art exhibit hosted by Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee (SEAT). As the title suggests, the event promises “an artistic take on sexual expression in the post-Snapchat era.”

The exhibit took place Friday, the first of many events comprising Sex Week, UT’s annual dialogue on the seemingly uncomfortable, provocative world of sex education.

With Sex Week, SEAT works to upend the traditional, abstinence-based sex education taught by most high schools in favor of a more realistic and honest approach.

“People are eager to learn, and we have events that aren’t just general sex-ed,” Patrick Sonnenberg, co-chair of SEAT’s executive board and junior studying sociolinguistics and women, gender and sexuality, said. “We try to make them fun … it really gets people involved and laughing and makes difficult, awkward conversations easier to have.”

“Send Nudes ;)” exhibited at The

Birdhouse, a small event space in northeast Knoxville that feels more like a house than an art gallery. The artworks were held in a single room, amidst couches, candles, snacks and large street-facing windows that created an inviting, unpretentious atmosphere.

The gallery included work from an array of UT student artists through a variety of mediums.

One of the most memorable pieces was SOAK_U_UP, an interactive artwork by Reid Arowood. The exhibit consisted of a sea sponge next to an iPad featuring the dating app Grindr, on which an account had been created for the sponge. The result was a series of attempted pickup lines and mature photos sent by those who seemed to either not know or not care that they were messaging a sea sponge.

The absurdist piece seemed representative of a much larger trend in social media, where users must frequently fend off unrequited and overzealous approaches by other users.

Another work by artist Nicole Gentry, titled “212_Social,” featured a black and white nude female body; head replaced with a colored sea anemone. The drawing illustrated a surreal, yet stark, contrast between body and mind.

“A lot of my work focuses around the relationship between humans and nature,” Gentry, sophomore studying art, said. “And how one can’t exist without the other … it’s a vital part of us.”

Although this is not the first time her work has been displayed, this is the first Sex Week Gentry has been involved in.

“I really like the embracing of sexuality, that’s something I’m really happy about,” Gentry said.

The artworks differed wildly in content, but there was a unifying concept tying them together — each piece featured brazen displays of the human body and carried with it an unapologetic sense of confidence and positivity.

The gallery was effectively a snapshot of the modern dating experience, highlighting Nicole Gentry displays her work titled “212_Social” on Friday night as a part if the “Send Nudes ;)” both the good and bad. exhibition. William Wells / The Daily Beacon

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Campaign looks to create home for students on campus While all three are very much about winning the elections, one thing that they have tried to do is remain civil during the election process with the other candidates. Larimer said that before there have been instances where all of SGA is divided after elections because of who won and it’s hard to get anything done when that happens.

What they are trying to do is remain civil in hopes of peace after the elections.

“I can’t name one campaign where we don’t have a least one friend on it so it’s definitely something where there is a mutual respect all the way around and that’s something that is incredibly important across the campus and across SGA,” Morgan said.

As elections begin on Monday, the three From left to right: Blaine Ziegler, Jack Larimer and Avery Morgan Emily Gowder / The Daily Beacon

Rob Harvey

Managing Editor Being out-of-state students, Jack Larimer and Avery Morgan both know the impact the first few weeks on campus can have on the rest of a college career.

Larimer, junior studying political science and Morgan, junior studying finance, teamed up with Blaine Ziegler, a junior in microbiology, to run for the Student Government Association (SGA) executive board hoping to make new students feel comfortable on campus when they arrive. *“I know that UT has given me a tremendous opportunity to meet people, to find a new home in Tennessee because I am an out of state student, and it’s just something about this campus that is really special,” Morgan, who is running for vice president, said. “I want to make sure that everyone has an experience like I was fortunate enough to have and that we constantly try and improve this campus and this community, and student government association gives a huge opportunity to do that.” (cut this quote down?) * Larimer, who is running for SGA president, joined SGA his freshman year and has been involved since then. Starting on first year council, Larimer currently serves as the treasurer of SGA which has opened his eyes to areas where SGA can improve, and he hopes to fix them.

“I think my position as treasurer this year has inspired me the most to run because I’ve been in the executive cabinet and have seen the limitations that SGA has (and) some of the areas for growth,” Larimer said. “Coupled with my experiences in the Knoxville community and in SGA and other student orgs, we have definitely seen those areas of growth and think that we will be the best to fill those and make SGA better.”

Morgan currently serves SGA on the Government Affairs Committee, and Zeigler, who is running for Student Services Director,

did not have experience with SGA prior to this year but remembered seeing the campaigns on campus as a freshman.

“I remember when I was a freshman, new to UT and didn’t know a lot of things, but I remember in the spring seeing all the elections and all the campaigns and I thought wow that’s so cool seeing what everyone wants to bring to the table,” Ziegler said. “Then I met Jack and Avery on campus and they had a dream and I wanted to work on their dream for this campus so I got involved with them and I think we really have something special with the three of us and we can really impact UT in a powerful way.”

One thing Larimer noticed that worked well was the Presidents’ Roundtable which helps presidents from various campus organizations stay connected. Larimer said continuing the roundtable would promote conversation which is something he feels SGA could have benefited from during the recent Student Programming Allocation Committee (SPAC) reallocation.

“I think the principle of it was really great and I think it would have avoided what would have happened recently with the SPAC finding whole debacle because that ultimately came from a lack of communication,” Larimer said.

“The President’s Roundtable is directly for that, for the president of SGA to communicate. We would love to see that come back, maybe in a more dynamic faction.”

With just 7,000 of the 28,000 students voting in SGA elections, Jack Avery Blaine are trying to find a way to get that number up and one of those ways is by letting all students know that those who are in SGA are no different then they are.

“I think a lot of students think SGA is not personable, it’s kind of a higher up position, so they may feel like why should I vote, it’s out of my league type of thing,” Ziegler said. “But, what we want to do is make SGA available for everyone. We’re not higher up than anyone.

We’re just like you. And, when you level the playing field and become very approachable, which is what we want to do, people are going to be more likely to vote.”

want students to know that they will keep them involved the whole time through their time at SGA if elected and that they are here to serve the students.

“I think the thing that makes us stand out the most is that we have been committed to every student org we’ve been a part of, every group we’ve been a part of consistently throughout our three years here, and that’s not going to change,” Larimer said. “I think that this is something past campaigns and administrations have lacked on, they haven’t followed up with students. They have included students throughout their entire administration, and I think that we’re going to take a role to make sure that that doesn’t happen.”

Campaign imagines inclusive

From left to right: Calvin Bryant, Haley Paige and Ovi Kabir Emily Gowder / The Daily Beacon

Kylie Hubbard

News Editor With the challenge of making UT a home for all, Ovi Kabir, Haley Paige and John Calvin Bryant want to make their imagination of an allinclusive campus a reality.

The three lead Imagine UT, one of the three campaigns hoping to sit atop the Student Government Association (SGA) when the results of this week’s voting are announced on Thursday.

Kabir, a junior studying political science, is the presidential candidate supported by junior studying chemistry and psychology Paige as vice president and sophomore studying food science and technology Bryant as Board of Trustees representative.

Without a candidate for Student Services Director (SSD), Imagine UT looks smaller than the others but Kabir, Paige and Bryant didn’t want to fill the position just to fill the position.

“You’ve got to put your egos to the side and make sure you’re looking to the betterment of the school. And when you know that two people

are extremely qualified for these positions right here, there’s no reason to put a third,” Kabir said. “The reason why we are all three sitting here is because I believe we truly are the best people for these positions.”

Forty-three senators support the team, and in conjunction with the candidates represent almost every part of campus. In addition to their involvement in SGA, the candidates have collectively held positions in housing, athletics and Greek life while participating in organizations such as Best Buddies.

“A big a thing that I wanted, that the whole team wanted, is to make sure that Imagine UT was not just an echo chamber, where it’s not just a bunch of yes men and yes women,” Kabir said.

“It’s really people holding us accountable and kind of challenging that.”

Following the recent Student Programing Allocation Committee (SPAC) refunding reallocation, Kabir said the team faced the challenge of rearranging their vision. The campaign team met with organizations on campus to discuss how collective action could be taken to move forward.

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SGA candidates stick together Alex Holcomb

Editor-in-Chief

From left to right: Xavier Greer, Maya Bian, Dalton Teel and Maddie Stephens Emily Gowder / The Daily Beacon

campus, long term goals “I think that really tested us at being flexible and really showing that this was I think a good experience,” Kabir said. “Next year when we are hopefully elected as representatives, we are going to get told beforehand that an issue is going to come up, it’s just going to happen.

Bryant said one way the team is brainstorming to better bridge the gap between SGA and student organizations is through the formation of a student organization union. The idea came from a visit Bryant took to American University in Washington, D.C. “Right now we are working as individuals, and we are not working as a whole group,” Bryant said. “Whenever issues come up like this, Vice Chancellor Carilli (would have) someone to go to (and) say, ‘Hey this is what we are thinking we should do.’”

In addition to being more inclusive with student organizations, Kabir, Paige and Bryant are hoping to use their policies to make sure campus is designed for all.

“These are non-partisan issues,” Kabir said.

“People from all different sectors have these issues and experience, that so that’s something we really wanted to do is make sure that the policy that we have on our campaign really affect all students.”

One of the ways the team wants to promote inclusiveness is through the remedy of financial insecurities. Imagine UT is pushing to expand Smokey’s Pantry and its hours of operation.

The pantry is open on Tuesdays from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., but Kabir hopes to follow in the footsteps of other SEC schools such as LSU and Kentucky and open the door more often.

Housing insecurity is another point of interest for the campaign. Already in talks with administration, Imagine UT wants to take the vacant dorms in the spring semester and offer them to a pool of 10 students for a discounted rate through a lottery system. The university would receive the benefit of tuition costs from the students that they would otherwise forfeit, Kabir said.

“It’s truly hard to get the Volunteer experience if you’re worrying about all these financial issues,” Kabir said. “We want to make sure that every student has that experience.”

As a student pursuing a career in healthcare, Paige said she was most passionate about another policy point of the team which would reallocate the student health fee to provide two free STD tests a year along with a widespread distribution of menstrual products on campus.

Imagine UT also adopted an alcohol policy to ultimately shift from a dry campus to a damp campus. Over the course of five years and through four steps, the policy would bring alcohol consumption to Thompson Boling Arena, Neyland Stadium, Fiji Island and Circle Park for registered tailgate events and upperclassmen apartments such as Laurel and Vol Hall.

“It’s step by step, and we don’t want to promise anything in one year because all three of us are tired of hearing empty promises, as many students are too,” Bryant said. “We’re taking it step by step, and we’re not promising a wet campus in one year.”

Paige stressed the importance of the longterm goals of Imagine UT and their ability to make strong impacts on campus life.

“It’s kind of unfortunate that we come from a generation where everything is literally at our fingertips. We can get it within seconds,” Paige said. “When it comes to legislation and when it comes to policy, we want to make sure that we get something out that is feasible and that is … going to last and sustain. Something that happens fast doesn’t always last.”

Kabir, Paige and Bryant are looking past the executive board positions and on to a better UT campus.

“We’re looking long term ahead of ourselves,” Kabir said. “We’re putting our policies ahead of us because we’re really looking forward to the betterment of this school.”

And with the support of their team, the team expects to overcome any obstacle to make their vision of campus a reality.

The Together campaign is just that: together.

Together is made of SGA Senate Chair Dalton Teel, junior in agricultural communications; College of Business senator Xavier Greer, junior in accounting; College of Arts and Sciences senator Maddie Stephens, junior in English Literature and College of Engineering senator Maya Bian, junior in health equity and human development in a global context. They are running for SGA president, vice president, student services director and UT board of trustees representative, respectively. Twenty-four senators are also running with the campaign.

Last year’s winning SGA campaign ran without a campaign name, opting to use their first names only. Teel said that Together never considered doing that. Instead, they decided to draw attention to what they want to change.

“The brokenness that exists on our campus — it’s tangible. It’s very obvious to a lot of people, whether you’re in a marginalized community or not,” Teel said. “We knew we needed a name that would epitomize what we wanted to see on campus, and that was ultimately to create a sense of togetherness and connectedness and unity that hasn’t been seen before.”

The four campaign members, who have known each other since freshman year, came together not only because of their separate involvements and friendship but also because of their similar ideologies.

“We all work together very well. We all have longstanding relationships and have known each other since freshman year,” Stephens said.

“We have these deep connections with each other, which further adds to our ability to work well together in this leadership capacity. So being able to disagree with each other and still work through that and have all these different perspectives coming from so many different angles links us together really well — pun intended.”

The campaign, among other policies, wants to use their positions to improve access, affordability, advocacy and accountability in SGA and among the campus community. Access policies include implementing a 20-minute class change and adding an online portal to centralize campus resources. On top of that, Together wants to share the access that SGA candidates have to UT administration with students.

Last month, SGA executives and UT administration, based on the results of a senate straw poll, moved $190,000 from the student programming committee to create a student travel budget for next year. After the transfer had been finalized, SGA held a town hall to allow student programming representatives and other students to express their frustrations with the decision.

“In some ways, I’m appreciative that this

happened at the moment it did because it has made people realize the power that a student government association can have,” Teel said.

“When they’re meeting with administration, are they simply representing themselves, or are they really thinking about the students that are out there that are gonna be affected by this decision?”

Together also want to advocate for diversity and inclusion and mental health awareness. In policy, they want to expand counseling centers to residence halls and create congruency between colleges in terms of diversity and inclusion programs.

“This past year, DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Recipients) was defunded on a federal level, and there were schools, universities and SGAs across the state of Tennessee that released something in support of students at their universities and across the state and the country that may have been affected by that decision, but UT never released anything,” Bian said. “And, we have students at our universities that are DACA recipients, and that hurts. That really hurts to feel like you’re not visible and that what you’ve been going through hasn’t been heard.”

The accountability aspect of their campaign is to keep both SGA and UT administration accountable through being vocal about campus issues and keeping a presence on campus.

In an effort for togetherness, the campaign also wants to improve communication between SGA and the student body through biweekly video updates.

“One big thing we’re trying to do is making sure that we’re facilitating communication between SGA and the student body. So many times, like the DACA, with the TWP (Traditionalist Workers Party), whether we either make a statement either too late or don’t make one at all, it has to be fixed,” Greer said.

In terms of affordability, Together wants to expand the book loan program, a system that allows students to loan two textbooks per semester, to residence halls, and in order to help students save dining dollars, Together also wants to increase the number of hours that dining halls are open.

The campaign understands that unplanned issues will arise during next school year, and they want to make sure to lay out what they value in order to be ready for them.

“You’ve really got to elect someone who you believe in their potential and the values that they have. ... Next year, if we’re elected, there will be issues that pop up that no one could have predicted. No one knew that President (Donald) Trump was going to defund DACA and that the SGA was going to kinda be asked to respond to that. Nobody could have predicted Neo-Nazis were going to host a rally on campus,” Teel said. “It’s that foundation that you’re building that’s really important. You’re voting for the people, not policy.”

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SPORTS

Monday, April 9, 2018 • The Daily Beacon

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Lady Vols struggle in Mississippi, lose to No. 9 Ole Miss 4-0 Staff Report Since starting the season 12-0 and rising in the rankings as high as the top 15, the No. 31 Tennessee women’s tennis team has gone on a downward trend in SEC play.

Since that undefeated start, the Lady Vols have gone 4-9, with all nine losses and just two wins coming in conference play.

On April 5, the Lady Vols traveled to Starkville, MS, to participate in the first of two matches in Mississippi against SEC opponents, the first against Mississippi State. They did not fare well against the Bulldogs, losing 4-2 after overcoming a 0-2 deficit.

Two days later, Tennessee traveled 98 miles south to Oxford, MS, to play the ninth best team in the nation, the Ole Miss Rebels, on their Senior Day. Once again, success was not on the side of the Lady Vols, as they lost 4-0 to the Rebels.

Tennessee got behind early in doubles play.

Court 3 was the first court of the entire day to see a match reach its conclusion as the Ole Miss duo of Natalie Suk and Anna Vrbenska dominated Tennessee’s Elizabeth Profit and Chelsea Sawyer 6-1.

After falling behind 5-1 early to Ole Miss’s Sabina Machalova and Tea Jandric, it looked as if all hope was lost for the Lady Vol duo of Gabby Schuck and Sadie Hammond. However, the Lady Vols won two games in a row to narrow the Ole Miss margin.

That rally would not be enough. In the ninth and final game, Machalova and Jandric were able to fight back against Hammond and Schuck and take the set 6-3.

Perhaps Tennessee’s best duo, the 47th ranked nationally Kaitlin Staines and Ariadna Riley, had their match against the No. 11 duo Alexa Bortles and Arianne Hartono of Ole Miss go unfinished, 3-5, with Ole Miss leading.

Behind early on 1-0, Tennessee needed to finish well in single’s play, an area in which Ole Miss boasts three athletes ranked nationally, including one in the top 15.

Hammond had the unlucky draw of facing Ole Miss’s Hartono, the aforementioned top 15 player. Their match was the first in singles to go final. Hammond would fall in two sets to Hartono, 6-3, 6-4.

Court 4 was the next match to find a resolution, with the freshman Staines facing off against Vrbenska for the Rebels. Staines, though lasting two sets, fared relatively better than Hammond.

Vrbenska took both sets 6-4 to give the Rebels a 3-0 lead.

Facing such a huge deficit, Tennessee had to kick it into high gear if they wanted to have a chance at the upset.

On Court 5, one of Tennessee’s stalwart athletes, Schuck, was in a good position to start rallying for Tennessee. After losing her first set 6-4 to her Rebel opponent Bortles, Schuck held a 3-0 lead in the second at the conclusion of Staines’s match.

Sadie Hammond volleys in her singles match against However, despite the momentum, Auburn on Mar. 29, 2018.

Bortles took six Emily Gowder / The Daily Beacon straight games to put for their final two matches before the SEC Schuck and Tennessee away for their second Tournament, the first of which falls on Thursday, straight loss. as the Lady Vols will look to get back on track The Lady Vols will retuwrn back to Knoxville against Missouri.

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FOOTBALL

SPORTS

Body language, penalties evident following Vols’ first scrimmage Tyler Wombles

Sports Editor

Physical vision wasn’t needed.

As Tennessee hosted its first official scrimmage of the spring practice period at Neyland Stadium on Saturday, head coach Jeremy Pruitt found that he didn’t need to actually watch each play to understand the outcome.

“I could have turned my head when the ball was being snapped and not watched the play and then looked back around, and I could have told you what happened without looking at the down and distance all based off of body language,” Pruitt said.

Pruitt is stressing the importance of poise to his players, who are attempting to rebound from a 4-8 season while adjusting to an entirely new coaching staff. In his mind, adversity is an obstacle that the Vols will have to overcome in order to find success.

“There’s going to be adverse situations in the games,” Pruitt said. “There’s going to be situations where things don’t go our way. How are we going to play? How are we going to respond? … The big thing that I saw is body language. To me, a lot of guys carried their

feelings on their shoulders.

“One of the most important things in any sport is to be able to keep your poise … That’s one thing we need to improve on.”

And that wasn’t the only improvement that Pruitt feels is necessary for his team as it prepares for fall camp and its regular-season opener against West Virginia on Sept. 1.

He noticed a litany of pre-snap penalties, particularly near the end of the scrimmage as his players’ abilities of sustainment were tested. With two young quarterbacks currently vying for the starting spot in Jarrett Guarantano and Will McBride plus a still-forming offensive line, working through miscues is a necessity for the Vols.

“Way too many penalties on both sides,” Pruitt said. “They were all pre-snap. Lack of discipline, some of it’s lack of poise. Just being able to get lined up and function. We’ve definitely got to improve there.”

But Pruitt’s reaction to his team’s first scrimmage wasn’t wholly negative. He noted his joy that the Vols were able to practice outside after dealing with inclement weather in the days prior, and he observed an improvement in his squad after nine spring practice sessions.

“I think our guys have definitely improved in nine days,” Pruitt said. “I’ll have to … see

where it was at, but as a group, they’ve shown some improvement.”

Saturday also marked the conclusion of Tennessee’s coaches clinic, which invited high school coaches to hear speakers and attend the Vols’ practices.

Pruitt’s respect for prep coaches has already been noted, as he served as an assistant coach for multiple high schools in Alabama prior to his time as a college coordinator and, now, head coach.

The Vols will continue to practice until April 21, when they will host the Orange and White Game at Neyland Stadium.

But those questions of body language and attitude are still unanswered in Pruitt’s view, with the first-year head coach attempting to sort through his team. He will be looking for solutions to those issues as the Vols’ practices move forward, hoping that they will provide an avenue for leaders to emerge for his team.

“We’ve got to figure out what kind of team we’ve got,” Pruitt said. “Do we UT player and assistant coach practice have guys that have leadership, that can receiving during March 31, 2018 practice.

Tara Halley / The Daily Beacon affect everybody else that way?”