Stellar freshman left hander Carter Holton pitched a 7 inning complete game shutout to lead the Commodores to a 5-0 victory over Arkansas before 10,806 fans at Baum Walker Stadium in Fayetteville.

Our now 21st ranked team is 34-16 overall and 14-13 in the SEC with games versus Middle Tennessee Tuesday at 6 PM CT on the SEC Network+ and games Thursday through Saturday at the Hawk versus LSU. Thursday’s game is at 7 PM CT on ESPN2, Friday’s game is at 6 PM CT on SEC Network+, and Saturday’s game is at 1 PM on the SEC Network.

Sunday’s game was 7 innings as Saturday’s game was suspended in the bottom of the 6th due to inclement weather. We picked it back up at 11 AM Sunday but fell 11-6.

Holton was brilliant as he only allowed 2 hits with 4 walks and 5 K’s. A couple of those walks were on questionable umpiring behind the plate. Some of those balls that guy called looked like strikes. Very inconsistent guy behind the plate on Sunday.

Holton moved to 7-3 and now has a 3.42 ERA. Our frosh from Savanah has walked 27 and leads the pitching staff with 86 K’s. He’s spectacular. Need to figure out our Saturday guy, who will be our Friday guy this week. Chris McElvain has struggled recently, so we’ll see what Corbs decides.

Tatę Kolwyck hit a run shot, our second baseman’s 8th homer of the season to go along with 31 Ribeyes. Dom Keegan drove in 3 runs and now has 55 Ribbies on the season to go along with 11 homers and a .382 batting average. Good to see our 3 seniors, Javy Vaz being the other, leading the way for our team along with the great Enrique Bradfield Jr, who was SEC player of the week this week. Bradfield Jr. was 2 for 4 with a run scored and 3, thats’ right, 3 stolen bases on the day. The great one is now 40 of 40 in stolen bases. He hit .474 last week in 4 games, he went 8-for-13 at the plate in the weekend series at Arkanas, .615, and was 8 for 8 in stolen bases in four games last week. That’s out of sight good. What a player our young sophomore is. He is now 40-of-40 in stolen bases and hitting .317. I gotta believe Enriques’ a candidate for the Golden Spikes Award given to the best player in the country. How could he not be. I’ll look into when those nominations go out

Holton was named co-SEC pitcher of the week. So super stuff from our freshman.

Big week. We are 14-13 in conference, so it’s a critical weekend series versus the Bengal Tigers. I’ll get more into the SEC implications on Wednesday as we need to take care of business tomorrow night. From what I see, we can finish 2nd, 3rd, 4th or maybe a little worse than that if we can sweep LSU and get help. I know Corbs doesn’t like thinking this way with a game tomorrow night, but wanted to give you that rundown for your information. UT will finish first, then Ark and A&M are at 17-10 and Auburn is at 15-11. Us, Georgia and LSU are at 14-13. So, just need to take care of business this week, Tuesday at 6 PM and Thursday-Saturday. Some challenges ahead this week. The SEC Tourney starts next Tuesday, 5/24, at the Hoover Met in B’ham. We could play Wednesday or Thursday. Just got to get to work this week and take care of our own business and let the standing fall where they may.

Men’s Golf in first after day 1

Our third ranked Men’s Golf team (GolfStat.com poll, the best poll in college golf) is leading the Palm Beach Gardens Regional after day one after firing a 3 under par round on the 7,048 yard PGA National Champions Course. We are 5 shots clear of 2nd place No.40 South Florida, which is +2. No. 15 Notre Dame is third at +4. Davidson is 4th at +5. No. 10 Florida is tied for 5th with College of Charleston at +6.

Harrison Ott shot a 4 under 68 on a difficult course. He is tied for 2nd behind UNCG’s (Greensboro) Nick Lyerly, who is at -5. Harrison is tied with Notre Dame’s Taichi and South Florida’s Sam Nicholson.

Cole Sherwood is in 9th at -1, Reid Davenport is tied for 10th at even par, and Gordon Sargent is tied for 22nd at +2.

We started well then struggled a little on the backside early, but finished very strong with 6 birdies on the final 3 holes.

We tee off at 6:30 AM CT tomorrow and play alongside South Florida and Notre Dame.

The top 5 teams in the 14 team field qualify for the NCAA Championships at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, May 27th-June 1st, a Friday through a Wednesday.

But can’t worry about that right now. Just need a solid round tomorrow.

Our Women’s Tennis Team lost to No.7 Texas A&M Saturday at College Station, 4-0. We still had an excellent season finishing 18-10 and really finished strong in the SEC and defeated No.10 Ohio State in the round of 32, which was excellent. We were in it in a lot of the matches, both singles and doubles. A&M was kind of our nemesis this season, defeating us 3 times, but they have been a lot of teams’ nemesis as they 33-1 and finished 13-0 in the SEC. We’ve got about every player coming back next season, so we could very well make an even deeper run next season with the talent we have returning. Congratulations to Coach Aleke Tsoubabnos and the our young women on a super season.

Will keep you posted on Men’s Golf tomorrow the Vandy Boys tomorrow night and the rest of this week for both teams and our Women’s Golf Team is at the Grayhawk Golf Club this Friday, 5/20, for the NCAA Championships after a superb first place finish at the Vanderbilt Regional at the Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, TN.