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Volume 136, Issue 14

Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Inside: • Sticking around for fall break? Already excited to come back? There’s a list of what is going on this weekend and what to expect on campus next week on page 2.

• Originating in Knoxville back in 2009, the Black Lillies is a one-of-a-kind band that takes inspiration from rock, folk country and ‘80s to ‘90s pop. Contributor Grace Stout features the band on page 4.

• Sports Columnist Rob Harvey says you should wait before you make a judgement on offensive coordinator Tyson Helton. Read his column on page 6.

• The Tennessee baseball team begins its fall season on Sunday as they travel to Emerson, Ga. to take on Georgia State. Contributor Ryan Schumpert previews the fall slate on page 8.

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How to prepare for fall break Cat Trieu

Campus News Editor

Fall break will begin on Thursday, much to the anticipation of several students. With the break marking the halfway point of the semester, many students will be leaving campus to enjoy their time off, whether or not they have taken their mid-term exams yet.

With fall break just around the corner, here are some ways you can prepare for the four-day break: Do homework: While homework might be one of the last things on your mind before a break, especially if you are taking a mid-term right before you leave, it might be wiser to get all of your homework due after fall break done before you officially kick your break off.

Along with not having to worry about homework while you are spending time with family and friends or binge-watching Netflix shows, you will also have an easier time when you get back on Sunday not having to scramble last minute to get homework done.

If you don’t have much homework due right after fall break, then

consider working ahead and getting homework that might not be due for another week after fall break ends to extend your vacation time for a bit.

If you just don’t have a lot of homework to do, then start gathering your notes together and look into finals.

While fall break is only the half-way point and Thanksgiving break is in November, classes after fall break tend to fly by; December can arrive before you know it.

Plan your trips accordingly: If you are traveling somewhere for fall break, hopefully you know by now where you are going, where you are staying, and what you are planning to do. However, if you are missing one or more of those components, consider gathering a group of friends or family members together for an impromptu road trip.

If you are in the Knoxville area, Gatlinburg is a popular destination, with Pigeon Forge and Smokey Mountains National Park being close by. Other cities that you could easily drive to for fall break destination can include Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Asheville, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.

Wherever you are traveling, make sure to book a hotel room ahead of time if you are not staying at a family member’s or friend’s place, and

check the weather in the area for the days you are going in order to pack accordingly.

Plan to make time for family: While you may be tempted to go for a road trip with friends or even just lay around in your dorm room for the break, consider going home to see your family.

Even if you are planning on going home for Thanksgiving, this fourday break won’t be until the end of November, so fall break would most likely be your best chance for going home before the pre-finals season kicks in.

Especially if your parents came to Knoxville for parents’ weekend, return the favor and visit home.

Contact your family ahead of time to make sure they can take time off of work. Then go out for a special day of family-bonding activities, whether it’s going to a nearby theme park or just going to see a movie. Since the break is fairly short, try to plan out what to do each day.

Make a list of stuff to bring from home: You might have not brought everything you though you needed when you moved in. Having gotten to settle in and get used to the routine in Knoxville, start thinking about things

you realized you need or just might be nice to have for the rest of the semester. With fall weather coming our way, start bringing your sweaters, scarves, boots and other typical autumn attire from home and lighten your load by bringing some of your typical summer attire back.

Other things you might want to consider bringing from home could be fall and Halloween-themed decorations. Since there is not another break before Halloween, go ahead and bring your costume up to be prepared for the incoming Halloween season.

Do laundry: It may sound basic, but many students can underestimate just how many other people need to do laundry when coming back from break.

If you are living on campus, you will most likely run into the issue of full washers and dryers when you get back. If you don’t want to haul around a heavy load of laundry back and forth from home and want to save yourself some stress when you get to campus.

While it may be off-putting to feel like you have to prepare for a break, you might find that preparing for fall break will make your days off more enjoyable and relaxing. Plan in advance and de-stress during the break so that you can be ready for school to start up again on Monday.

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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Ways to plug into Knoxville this weekend, after fall break

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Campus News Editor Weekend: On Saturday, the Great Llama Race will be held in World’s Fair Park from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hosted by Casa de Sara, a 501(C)3 organization dedicated to providing education and opportunities for at-risk children and their families, the event will have several llama races. Local celebrities will be paired with a local school and a llama provided by the Southeast Llama Rescue to compete for funds to go towards a project towards the winners’ choice. Other activities at the event will include vendors, entertainers, food, music, a children’s section, crafts, games and other competitions where attendees can win prizes. General admission is $5; kids 5 years old and younger can go for free. All proceeds will go to Casa de Sara, local schools and Southeast Llama Rescue.

The 22nd annual Knoxville Brewer’s Jam will also be on Saturday, taking place in the Knoxville Civic Coliseum plaza from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The event is Knoxville’s oldest beer festival, and will have “hard to find” beers, music and food.

Tickets are available online. Proceeds will go towards the non-profit organization Community Shares.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, the Scruffy City Vegan Fest will be at the Knoxville Expo Center. Hosted by Knoxville Farmed Animal Save, a 501(C)3 organization dedicated to raising awareness of animal cruelty by bearing witness to animal suffering, the festival will showcase local businesses advocating for crueltyfree food service and the local vegan scene.

Tickets are $5.

Monday: At 12 p.m. UT Humanities will be hosting a book discussion of Eli Pariser’s New York Times best-seller “The Filter Bubble: How the Personalized Web is Changing What We Read and How We Think,” which focuses on the role of technology in human lives.

Eli Pariser is the co-founder of Upworthy, a website dedicated to finding stories that are deemed to matter and make them go viral.

Pariser has also given a TED talk on his book and website, with the video having over two million views.

Author of “Goodbye, Sweet Girl” Kelly Sundberg will give a reading of her essays as part of the Creative Writing Series in McClung Auditorium at 7 p.m.

Sundberg’s essays have appeared in magazines like Guernica, Gulf Coast, The Rumpus, Denver Quarterly, Slice Magazine and others.

World’s Fair park is a popular outdoor spot located only a few minutes walk away from UT’s campus. Lailah Blackwell / The Daily Beacon Her essay “It Will Look Like a Sunset” was selected for inclusion in Best American Essays 2015, and other essays have been listed as notables in the same series.

Tuesday: Planning on going to graduate school?

OneStop will be hosting an event from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. to help students explore funding options for graduate school. Traditional and nontraditional funding sources such as fellowships, scholarships and reimbursement.

Hodges Library hosts free screenings of independent and foreign films once a month. From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Hodges will show the 2014 “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.” Known as the first Iranian Vampire Western, the film takes place in a Iranian ghost town that is home to prostitutes and junkies that reeks of death and hopelessness. A lonely vampire stalks the town’s most unsavory inhabitants in this free screening.

Wednesday: The UT Knoxville Alumni Program will provide bagels, coffee, orange juice and fruit from 8 a.m. to noon for Welcome Wednesday at the Tyson Alumni Center. Along with refreshments, the Alumni Program will also provide comfy chairs, a place to hang out and watch Sports Center and the Today Show. Ways to get involved with student programs to be supported by the Alumni Program will also be provided.

The Herbert College of Agriculture will bring in numerous corporate employers, government agencies and non-profit organizations for all majors and degree levels in the College of Agriculture. The career fair can be found in the Brehm Animal Science Arena from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Interested in studying abroad? Programs Abroad will be in Hodges from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m., sharing information about programs, scholarships, financial aid and other study broad

essentials. Program alumni, faculty program directors and coordinators will be on site to answer questions.

Shawna and Roger Cain will speak on “Cultural Memory, Native Voice and Representation” for the Department of Anthropology’s 45th Annual Visiting Lecture Series from 3:35 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Strong Hall, Room B-1.

The Life Skills Series will help students learn how to cook on a budget. Stop by the Center for Career Development from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Cooking topics will include how to eat healthy without spending a fortune or a ton of time in the kitchen.

Thursday: Thursday’s Lunch and Learn, hosted by the UT Libraries Diversity Committee and the UT Pride Center will feature a panel of individuals to share their experiences of coming out on National Coming Out Day. Pride Center Coordinator Bonnie Johnson will serve as moderator and the panel will include History and Medieval & Renaissance Studies Librarian Shaina Destine, Hall Director Brandon Harris, junior in sociology and women, gender, and sexuality studies Cole Tipton and Diversity Resident Librarian Lizeth Zepeda.

Audra J. Wolfe will give a lecture based on her new book “Freedom’s Laboratory: The Cold War Struggle for the Soul of Science” from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Haslam Business Building, Room 103. The event is open and free to the public.

University of California history professor Steve Ross will give a lecture from his recent book, “Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots in Hollywood and America” from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Lindsey Young Auditorium in Hodges Library.

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UT student places third in international soil judging competition Moira Charnot Contributor

At the International Soil Judging Competition in Brazil on Aug. 3, eight students from different universities represented Team USA and swept the competition. In team judging, the two U.S. groups placed first and second, and individual U.S. students placed first, second, third and fourth in the individual competition, making Team USA the overall first and second place winners.

David Gentry, senior in environmental and soil science with an agricultural systems technology concentration, placed third individually in the competition.

“Working through the pits as a team was very cool, and (it) helped show me that letting people show their strengths pays off,” Gentry said.

Forty-seven students from 12 teams were challenged to describe, characterize and classify soil in the area surrounding Rio de Janeiro for the International Soil Judging Competition.

Each team consisted of four members; team USA had to be split into two teams due to having eight members.

The students had to describe four soil pits in terms of color, texture, structure, thickness,

consistency, clay and sand percent, and they had to describe elemental features within each layer of soil.

“My team, USA Team 1, worked very well together in competition. We had prepared the days before, and each had an area of the scoresheet (that) we specialized in,” Gentry said. “It was honestly amazing to work toward a goal with such high stakes with a team of people I had only really gotten to know in about five days’ time.”

In addition to the pit descriptions, the competitors looked at landscape position, slope and erosion. The descriptions then were used to interpret whether or not a septic system could be put in, what land management system would be best and whether or not a road could be put through it. To win, one must describe all of the features according to the official handbook.

“Before I went on the trip, I told people I was going to the Soil Olympics as a joke, but it seemed to fit very well given the atmosphere and competitor respect,” Gentry said.

Lecturer in the department of biosystems engineering and social science, Andrew Sherfy, also traveled to Brazil with team USA for the competition. Sherfy, known as the “Soil Vols’ coach” at UT, coached for the team and was in

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The team representing the USA poses for a group photo.

Courtesy of David Gentry charge of making the official scorecards used to grade the competing teams and individuals.

“Of course it feels good to win, but I would have been excited with any outcome. Just to have the rare opportunity to represent our country was an amazing experience and one I will always cherish,” Sherfy said. “To represent our country in success, I couldn’t be any proud-

er. The students were extremely talented and dedicated and I don’t think we could have been as successful without them, their efforts, and their willingness to put time into preparation.”

The International Soil Judging Competition is held every four years, taking place in a different country each year. The next competition will be held in Glasgow, Scotland in 2022.

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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Welcome to Night Vale podcast gets weird in Knoxville Luna Brewer

Staff Writer Interloper afoot, Welcome to Night Vale’s live performance “A Spy In the Desert” brought the creepy happenings of a small desert town straight to the Bijou’s stage last night.

Welcome to Night Vale is a twice-monthly podcast formatted as a community radio featuring the weather, a children’s fun-fact science corner, updates on traffic and strange and sometimes life-threatening events. The script of Night Vale is written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor and voiced by Knoxvillian Cecil Baldwin with original music by Disparition.

“If you have not heard of the podcast, Welcome to Night Vale, you’re going to have a very weird night,” Bashwiner said.

“If you have heard of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, you’re going to have a very weird night.”

“A Spy in the Desert” is a new standalone story set in the Night Vale universe that can easily be enjoyed both by the show’s newcomers and seasoned fans.

The story features Cecil Baldwin as Cecil Palmer, Symphony Sanders as 16-year-old Tamika Flynn, Meg Bashwiner as Deb,

sentient patch of haze and special guest from the audience, acted as the “interloper.”

The weather, a segment featuring various musical guests, was provided by non-binary, transgender singer-songwriter Mal Blum.

Night Vale set the tone of their set with their hilarious self-effacing humor, which was easily at home with the rest of the Night Vale crowd, with songs like “Archive,” a tune about anxious thought patterns they have about when people die off or when aliens find earth. Blum also performed “Reality TV,” “Robert Frost,” a cover of the Ryan Adam’s song “Two,” and read an original passive-aggressive poem titled “Ghost Adventures by Mal Blum.”

Before the show even started, Bashwiner was already in character and added a bit of the typical Night Vale flare to the opening announcements, acting as a time traveller coming to warn the audience of things like exits, not smoking inside, cell phones and photography, and audio recordings.

“Exits, just like life, you don’t always come in the same way you go out,” Bashwiner said. “Take me for example, I came in in one of the more traditional ways, and I will probably leave in one of the less traditional ways.

So please take a moment to locate your nearest exit and think about your birth.”

“Now if someone could direct me to late

1944, I can show Donald Trump’s mom how to use birth control,” Bashwiner said.

After the audience had their fair share of time travel, a man with a rich-toned voice and a story entered the stage and accompanied with musician Disparition, said “Welcome, Night Vale.”

“A Spy in the Desert” tells the story of Cecil, Tamika and citizens as they all try to flush out “the Manx,” a notorious spy who collects secrets who has come into the small desert community. The concert was interactive, encouraging the audience to get involved, with Cecil directing everyone to chant “Crush him,” “Violence” and whisper “What have you done” during the show’s sports segment. A member of the audience was also selected to act as “the Manx.”

Night Vale’s return to Knoxville marked the show’s fifth return to Knoxville to the stage where Balwin first got his start in theatre.

“It’s been truly amazing to get to come back to the Bijou and perform Night Vale for all of you,” Baldwin said. “This theatre is the place where I made my stage debut and also where my mom took me and my brother to see our first piece of theatre ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster.’”

“I just wanted to thank you all for coming out, on a Monday night, to see something

Mal Blum performs From performs for the Welcome To Night Vale show at the Bijou Theatre on October 1, 2018.

Quinn Phillips / The Daily Beacon as weird as a podcast on stage,” Baldwin said.

At the end of the tour, the show will release the recordings online with the rest of the Night Vale episodes for those that could not attend Welcome to Night Vale’s 2018-2019 world tour.

The Black Lillies return with new album, new sound Grace Stout

Contributor After a 40 day tour in their first year and their 2017 Sprinter Sessions, The Black Lillies have developed a sound entirely unique to their four-man band. Originating in Knoxville back in 2009, the Black Lillies is a one-of-a-kind band that takes inspiration from rock, folk country and ‘80s to ‘90s pop.

Each member contributes to the fourpiece rock band and three vocals. The band emphasizes collaboration among every member through the writing and arrangement processes. Cruz Contreras, the founding member of The Black Lillies, leads with vocals, guitar, keys and mandolin; Sam Quinn plays bass; Bowman Townsend is on percussion; and Dustin Schaefer shreds electric guitar while providing backup vocals.

However, there is much more to the band than the music they produce.

“Cruz and Sam are practically polar opposites,” Chyna Brackeen said. Brackeen, the album’s executive producer, said, “... when

they come together to write, it’s like something magic happens.”

“We’re simply creating something that is more dynamic and great than the sum total of the parts,” Contreras said.

The Black Lillies newest album, “Stranger to Me”, is the first of the band’s new sound.

It dropped on Sept. 28 and was unlike any of the albums before it. “Stranger to Me” was inspired by the 2017 Sprinter Sessions, a project where the band released a new song every week on Facebook live.

Although the music was not always finished, having no time to flesh out the sounds, the acoustic songs set the stage for their newest album and cemented their fresh sound.

“We’ve been through many iterations of the band. … The sound has progressed from the more raw and acoustic music, which they started with, to the more layered, electric and lush sound they have now,” Brackeen said.

The record is a showcase of the new arrangement with a rock approach and emphasis on collaboration that has been in development for three years.

“It’s cool to step back and see each players’ footprint within the project,” Contreras said. “I think of Sam as our creative/lyrical ‘pusher.’ He’s a perfectionist and encourages all of us to move past our comfort zones as far as the craft of writing and harmonizing.

Bowman has really taken the reins in an arrangement sense. He takes the lead in making set lists, designs the overall ‘feel’ of the show and is always thinking with a progressive indie rock approach. Dustin just wants to rock. What more could you ask from a lead guitarist?”

The brand prides itself on its conglomeration of genres and the blend of creativity the band makes when they get together.

“One of the things that excites me most about what they are doing now is the threepart harmonies -- there’s this throwback sound that can be reminiscent of The Beach Boys or The Eagles, but that’s juxtaposed with instrumental riffs that are thoroughly modern,” Brackeen said.

“Stranger To Me” is just the beginning of a new era for The Black Lillies. The band is still discovering their place in rock and roll and have no idea what to expect for the

Courtesy of iTunes

future, but they are optimistic.

“It feels good to make something fresh, a little different but still familiar. (Our music) is simple on the surface, complex in the middle, and something that we can pursue and create for a good while to come,” Contreras said. “I’m just lucky to be surrounded by such an excellent and talented bunch of dudes.”

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Big Ears releases lineup for 2019 music festival Staff Report

Big Ears will be returning to venues across downtown Knoxville for its eighth year on March 21-24 of next year. In previous years, the music festival’s unique music, art and film exhibitions have attracted festivalgoers from across the world, and this year it will be even bigger.

Organizers of the event claim, “The 2019 festival will turn Knoxville into one of the world’s creative epicenters for a remarkable long weekend.” Attendees can expect more than 100 concerts, workshops, installations and interactive experiences at Big Ears.

Since 2009, Big Ears has operated off of donations in order to, “create, nurture and support artistic expression and cultural education that transcends traditional boundaries, strengthens and builds relationships, and connects across communities through genre-defying music, film and arts programming, and interactive experiences.” Although the festival has grown to be a staple in the Knoxville art community, the festival is still hoping to expand and relies on donors to make the event possible every year.

2019’s lineup features artists from a variety of genres including rock and roll, jazz, dance music, classical and

more. The Art Ensemble of Chicago is among Big Ears’ lengthy list of performers and will be celebrating their 50th anniversary by hosting an array of musicians at the festival.

Rhiannon Giddens will return to the Big Ears stage where she delivered the keynote address at last year’s festival; however, this time she will be joining Kayhan Kalhor, Iranian fiddle — or kamancheh — player, to perform solo and with the multilingual string quartet Brooklyn Rider.

Although the festival is world renowned, Big Ears will also showcase several local performers in the Knoxville community. Yves Tumor is an emerging artist in the area that recently released a new album which attendees will get to see in March.

Beyond musical guests, Big Ears supports artists from every medium of expression. TRIPTYCH is a multimedia project that will be shown during the upcoming festival. Attendees can also anticipate dance performances by The Nashville Ballet.

In the coming weeks, Big Ears will announce more details of its 2019 programming, including a series of panels, the return of a film festival, a drone concert and more. A complete lineup of artists, additional information about the event and ticket sales can be found on the Big Ears website.

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OPINIONS

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Rob Harvey Sports Columnist (27-9) Missouri at South Carolina LSU at Florida Kentucky at Texas A&M Texas 28 at Oklahoma 31 Notre Dame at Virginia Tech Boston College at N.C. State Maryland at Michigan

Will Backus Asst. Sports Editor (22-13) Missouri at South Carolina LSU at Florida Kentucky at Texas A&M Texas 17 at Oklahoma 49 Notre Dame at Virginia Tech Boston College at N.C. State Maryland at Michigan

Blake Von Hagen Sports Editor (22-13) Missouri at South Carolina LSU at Florida Kentucky at Texas A&M Texas 21 at Oklahoma 37 Notre Dame at Virginia Tech Boston College at N.C. State Maryland at Michigan

Kylie Hubbard Editor-in-Chief (22-13) Missouri at South Carolina LSU at Florida Kentucky at Texas A&M Texas 27 at Oklahoma 30 Notre Dame at Virginia Tech Boston College at N.C. State Maryland at Michigan

Tyler Wombles Managing Editor (22-13) Missouri at South Carolina LSU at Florida Kentucky at Texas A&M Texas 28 at Oklahoma 41 Notre Dame at Virginia Tech Boston College at N.C. State Maryland at Michigan

Margot McClellan Opinions Editor (21-14) *Missouri* at South Carolina LSU at Florida Kentucky at Texas A&M Texas 14 at Oklahoma 28 Notre Dame at Virginia Tech Boston College at N.C. State Maryland at Michigan

Harvey: Wait before you make a judgement on Helton Ever since the Vols’ opening season loss to West Virginia, the Tennessee message boards have blown up about the play calling of Rob Harvey offensive coorSports Columnist dinator Tyson Helton.

Almost all of the comments were about how conservative the play calling was and how it was “just like last year.” As the Vols have continued to lose, the comments have heated up.

But before you go blaming Helton, take a look at the personnel he has on offense, and then maybe you won’t be so quick to talk about his “bad play calling.”

Multiple times on Saturday against the Georgia Bulldogs, Helton called the perfect play against a very physical Georgia defense, but when the Vols ran the play, it netted negative yards or was stopped at the line of scrimmage. At first glance, the thought process might be, “Oh Helton made a terrible play call there,” but in reality, the Vols were one block away from having a huge play.

For example, in the second half of the Georgia game, Jarrett Guarantano threw a pass to Brandon Johnson a couple of yards behind the line of scrimmage. When Johnson was stopped for a two yard loss, it looked like just a bad play call, but the replay showed that if Johnson’s blocker in front had held his block for just a second longer, Johnson would have had a big gain on the play.

Another example came in the Florida game. The Vols had a fourth down and call and unbelievable play call that leaves Austin Pope wide open down the sideline. But Pope fumbles the ball out of the back of the end zone. It wasn’t Helton’s fault, as he called the right play; It was the execution by Pope that made the play a turnover.

That has been the big takeaway from the offense this season. It’s not the play calling that has been below average, it’s the execution. The Vols just don’t have

the players to be able to execute on a high level consistently. That starts with the offensive line.

The Vols’ running game has struggled this season, and that is because the offensive line has not been able to consistently block. Some plays might have been bad calls from Helton, but at the end of the day, the players on the field are not able to execute on a consistent basis.

Now, I am not saying that Helton is totally not guilty, because he very well might be. But for right now, we really don’t know how good or bad his play calling is. It has been five games; It’s going to take a couple of years before Helton can be considered a success or failure. Right now, Helton has players that he inherited and is trying to adjust his offense to work around them.

Helton is used to having offensive success, as Sam Darnold has been the quarterback of his offense for the past couple of years. He is still adjusting to the SEC and to a totally different team. Those are not excuses, but at the end of the day, Helton is crippled with the plays he can call because he isn’t able to run every play in his playbook due to the lack of depth and execution from his players.

So before you make a judgement on Helton, wait a season or two. You may be surprised at how well the offense works when Helton is given time to adjust.

“ ...but in reality, the Vols were one block away from having a huge play.”

Rob Harvey, Sports Columnist

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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Tennessee baseball gets set for fall schedule Ryan Schumpert Contributor

The Tennessee baseball team begins its fall season on Sunday as they travel to Emerson, Ga. to take on Georgia State.

Until then, the Vols will look to improve on last spring’s 29-27 campaign under head coach Tony Vitello. He hopes that his second season as head coach will see the team develop and improve.

“Everyone on our staff did something new to them last year,” Vitello said. “We all get a chance to learn from the mistakes we made, but kind of feel more confident about who we are and what we’re gonna do as a part of this program.”

The Vols improved in SEC play significantly during Vitello’s first year, making the jump from 7-21 in the 2017 season to 12-18 last year.

“Every year you would like to take a step up,” Vitello said. “Eventually you’re not going to be able to win more games. That can taper off. I don’t think anyone is ever going to go 56-0, but with each year there is kind of an

incremental gain.”

Tennessee returns 22 players from last year’s team, including many that had strong summers.

Infielder Andre Lipcius built on a strong sophomore season by batting .313 and tallying 27 RBIs this summer for the Harwich Mariners in the Cape Cod league. His performance earned him a spot in the League’s All-Star game and won him a Platinum Glove.

“Well I’m very thankful that I got the chance to show what I had up there and have the summer that I had,” Lipcius said. “It’s just getting lost in the weeds and all the games and having so much fun. You don’t really keep track of stats up there, but it’s just a lot of fun to be able to play every day.”

Pitcher Zach Linginfelter posted solid numbers pitching for the Brewster Whitecaps in the Cape Cod league. The Sevierville, Tenn. native posted a record of 2-2 with a 4.26 ERA. “I had to figure some things out personally and physically on the mound,” Linginfelter said. “I had to make some mechanical adjustments and just pound the zone and let the hitters get themselves out.”

Right-handed pitcher Garrett Stallings was one of the Cape Cod League’s best pitchers; he posted a 1-0 record and a 2.50 ERA while striking out 21 batters and surrendering no walks.

“Garrett (Stallings) had a great performance for four games up in the Cape,” Vitello said.

“And I think sometimes it can hurt you to be too good of a kid, and I know as a parent or a coach you aren’t supposed to have favorites, but Garrett Stallings is about as good as a kid as you’re going to find off and on the field.”

Tennessee will take advantage of a new NCAA rule change that will allow them to scrimmage other schools this fall. After the game with Georgia State, Tennessee will face Alabama later in the month.

“These guys deserve an opportunity to size themselves up against other competition,” Vitello said. “We’ll be able to do that against Georgia State on Sunday and then a phenomenal opportunity for us against Alabama on the day we play them in football (Oct. 20).”

The Vols will conclude the fall season with the annual intrasquad Orange and White scrimmages from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2.

Short stop Andre Lipcius, #13, at bat against Alabama on March 23, 2018.

File Photo / The Daily Beacon

Taylor fuels lackluster Tennessee pass rush Will Backus

Asst. Sports Editor Before Tennessee’s loss to Georgia on Saturday, it could be said that linebacker Darrell Taylor’s most significant contribution to Tennessee’s football team was a particular slogan he uttered prior to the Vols’ 2016 matchup against Virginia Tech.

Despite the loss to the Bulldogs, Taylor had arguably his best game as a Vol and had Tennessee’s first three sack performance since Derek Barnett hit that mark in 2016.

“I think Darrell got some licks on the quarterback today,” Pruitt said. “It was good to get a few licks on the quarterback.”

Taylor had three sacks for the entire 2017 season, his redshirt sophomore campaign.

Two of these sacks came against Southern Mississippi.

He was somewhat of a hero in Tennessee’s season opening win against Georgia Tech last season, making a tackle on an attempted two-point conversion that would have won the game after two overtimes for Georgia Tech. He also finished with 12 total tackles in that game.

Outside of those highlights, which are respectable, Taylor has not produced on a consistent basis. In the first four games this season, he had just five total tackles, with one

for a loss.

In Georgia’s first drive of the game, this all changed. Taylor blew past tight end Isaac Nauta and ran around running back D’Andre Swift to bat the ball out of quarterback Jake Fromm’s hands for a strip sack.

In one of the most unorthodox plays this season, Nauta scooped up the fumble and ran it for a 31-yard touchdown, Georgia’s first of the day.

“I didn’t believe it happened,” Taylor said.

“We’ve just got to get better at getting off of blocks as a defensive line, so that won’t happen in a game.”

Taylor was not done there. He once more batted the ball out of Fromm’s hands in Georgia’s first drive of the second quarter.

Fromm was able to corral the loose ball, and the play resulted in a nine-yard loss.

The third sack for Taylor came in the third quarter, getting Fromm in the backfield for a loss of six. This time there was no fumble forced, and the Bulldogs eventually had to punt it away due to the loss.

Taylor’s standout performance comes in the midst of what has been a down-season for Tennessee’s pass rush, much to the chagrin of Pruitt.

Leading up to the Georgia game, Tennessee had just seven sacks, none of which came from Tennessee’s outside linebackers, the position that Taylor plays. In just one game, he doubled

Defensive lineman Darrell Taylor, #19, of the Tennessee Volunteers during the game against Georgia at Sanford Stadium on Sept. 29, 2018.

Courtesy of Maury Neipris / Tennessee Athletics his own career sack statistics and significantly increased the Vols’ season mark.

Tennessee will have to continue to pressure the quarterback if they hope to find success in SEC play this season, and according to Taylor, it starts in practice.

“All week we’d been working on getting off the ball,” Taylor said. “And I think it showed up in the game. We did a great job of getting

off the ball.”

Taylor, and Tennessee’s defensive front as a whole, will be given a good chance to further improve upon their pass rush when they face Auburn in a couple of weeks. The Tigers have allowed opponents 2.5 sacks per game this year, which ranks for 83rd worst in the FBS out of 130 teams.