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RICHMOND, Ky. – The Eastern Kentucky University softball team will travel to Knoxville to take on #21/23 University of Tennessee on Sunday for a Valentine's Day doubleheader.
 
EKU starts the 2021 season with the longest active winning streak in the country at 18 games. The Colonels were originally supposed to take on Mercer University in a three-game series, but with poor weather in the area the series were canceled. Eastern will take on the Lady Vols at 12 with the possibility of a doubleheader depending on time.
 
Inside the Series'                                                                                                                   
-Tennessee leads the all-time series 10-0, and this is the first time the two teams have met since the 2017 season.
 
-The Lady Vols finished last season at 14-9 and return 91 percent of their offense and 87 percent of their pitching.
 
-Tennessee was picked to finish fourth in Southeastern Conference preseason poll.
 
-Ashley Rogers and Chelsea Seggern were named to the Preseason All-SEC team by the league head coaches.
 
-Seggern hit .403 last year with seven doubles, a pair of triples, while recording 25 hits on the season. She also ranked 18th in the nation with a .560 on-base percentage. Rogers was a 2019 NFCA All-Region pitcher and missed the 2020 shortened season because of injury. The junior finished with a1.94 ERA and an impressive 209 strikeouts as a freshman in 2019.
 
What EKU Brings:
-EKU returns all nine starters, and 17-of-18 players, off last year's 22-2 team.
 
-The Colonels welcome in seven freshmen to the squad this year.
 
-Eastern returns 11 of its top 12 hitters off last year's teams. Last year the Colonels ranked 31st in the country and first in the league in home runs per game, 40th in the NCAA and third in the OVC in slugging percentage, 50th in triples, 76th in batting average and 81st in doubles.
 
-The Colonels return their top four pitchers from last year's rotation that was lights out. EKU finished 21st in the country and first in the OVC in earned run average and shutouts. The defense for the Colonels finished 31st in the NCAA and first in the OVC in fielding percentage.
 
-Redshirt freshman Ariyana Miranda was named to the Ohio Valley Conference Players to Watch List.