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SEC announces baseball All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player

Keith Farner

By Keith Farner

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Drew Gilbert led 3 Tennessee players on the SEC All-Tournament team after the Vols won the program’s first conference championship since 1995.

The Tennessee center fielder was named Most Valuable Player after he delivered a home run and a double on Sunday as he went 2-for-5 with 4 RBIs as the Vols beat Florida to clinch the championship. Gilbert was also 2-for-5 with 2 RBIs in the semifinal win over Kentucky.

The Wildcats had 4 players make the team as the 12-seed made an impressive run to Saturday night. Wyatt Langford and Jac Caglianone represented Florida, while Texas A&M’s Jack Moss and Alabama’s Caden Rose also made the team.

After a rain-filled start to the tournament and significant delays early on, No. 1 Tennessee secured the program’s fourth SEC Tournament Championship and its first since 1995 by knocking off rival Florida, 8-5, in Sunday’s title game in front of 13,270 at the Hoover Met.

On the heels of its first SEC regular season title since 1995, Tennessee doubled down and did the same feat in the SEC Tournament. Before last season’s tournament, the Vols had never even won a game in the current 12-team format, which started in 2013. They have now made back-to-back championship game appearances and gone 7-2 in that span.

UT is the third straight team to win both the SEC regular season and tournament crowns, joining Vanderbilt (2019) and Arkansas (2021). There was no tournament in 2020 due to COVID.

Sunday’s victory over the Gators gave the Vols their fourth SEC Tournament title overall. Tennessee joined the 2010 LSU Tigers as the only teams to never trail throughout the SEC Tournament.

Keith Farner

A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.

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