Submitted by Mark Nagi on December 21, 2009 - 6:57pm
Another decade is coming to a close, and while many people want the 00's... or the "aughts," or whatever you want to call the last 10 years to go just away, I think that discredits the past.
The Tennessee Lady Vols softball team has become one of UT's most consistent winners.
On Sunday they beat Louisville 3-1 in extra innings, to capture the NCAA Regional title, and earn a trip to Michigan for the Super Regionals.
Was there a post-Monica Abbott effect with this program? Perhaps. The past two years the Lady Vols lost at home in the NCAA Regionals. But they are back on track now.
The Lady Vols softball team, by all accounts, was supposed to be a year away. With freshmen and sophomores all over the lineup, Tennessee should have been too young and inexperienced to advance to the Women's College World Series.
No one told that to the Lady Vols...
Their two game sweep at Michigan, a team that returned almost everyone from the previous seasons WCWS squad, opened up a lot of eyes in the softball world.
