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RHYTHM n’ BLOOMS Show stoppers: Annual Sex Week drag show raises funds >>See page 2

Bangladesh garment workers visit UT campus >>See page 3

Music festival plays diverse sounds for ‘excited’ crowds Jenna Butz

“They’re just pumped that you’re here. They’re just excited about the weekend, excited about the experience and to hear new music.”

Arts & Culture Editor Americana festival Rhythm N’ Blooms dominated Old City this weekend for three days of music.

This year’s lineup saw an increase in diversity as genres included indie rock, outlaw country, backwaters gypsy bluegrass and anything else that could be considered Americana. With the increase in diversity also came an increase in obscurity, though, and the festival asked visitors to expand their musical horizons and add new favorites to their playlists.

Polly Roberts was there for exactly that, and attended the festival while visiting inlaws.

“We’re here to find someone new,” Roberts said, waiting for Delta Spirit to open the festival Friday night while her 3-year-old son ran around her ankles. “It’s good to catch someone you haven’t heard before.”

Loren Lee, senior in English, was instead there to catch an old favorite. She had seen

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Delta Spirit at Lollapalooza and wanted to catch them again, closer to home.

“We saw them on accident, but they rocked,” Lee said about seeing the California indie rock band the first time.

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Aldrete leads Lady Vols past No. 1 LSU >>See page 11

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Sex Week Drag Show performers share stage experiences Claire Dodson Editor-in-Chief Sex Week’s annual Drag Show, sponsored

by Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee and volOUT, packed the University Center Auditorium once again as students and drag professionals alike took the stage to perform

everything from Lady Gaga to Switchfoot.

The rules of the show are simple. Performers lip sync and dance while wearing costumes that play with and exaggerate gender norms, mostly representative of a gender besides their own.

Audience members could tip dollar bills to their favorites during each queen or king’s performance — some especially confident attendees chose to do so Friday night by tucking the bill in

Kaedee White

Drag name: Bendydick Cuttlefish performing “Wonderwall” Sophomore in Architecture First time in Sex Week Drag Show “For me, I’m agender. So it’s really a way for me to express my gender through performance.

It’s different from how I do it every day ... The best part is feeding off the crowd and knowing that they love you and loving them back, that feeling that everyone is there to support you.”

Brandon Darr

Performance: “I’ve Had the Time of My Life” and “You’re the One that I Want” with Merry Reid Sheffer Junior in College Scholars First time in Sex Week Drag Show “The scariest part is whether or not you’re going to mess up or fall in heels. I mean I’ve walked around in heels before, don’t get me wrong, but on stage in front of hundreds of people — I was just thinking, do not fall, do not fall. And if you do just kind of roll around and play in it.”

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between their teeth or out of their pockets, and the queens and kings happily obliged.

Twelve students braved the stage with extensive costumes and props, and punny stage names, like “Raggedy Max” who stepped out of a Raggedy Ann-style doll box and “VaCeline Dion,” who baptized an attendee under a flowing blue cloth while dressed as Jesus.

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show featured two local professional queens: Diana Hart and Anastasia Alexander, who each did several numbers, such as Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” and Keri Hilson’s “Pretty Girl Rock.”

The event raised $228, and all proceeds went to volOUT and S.E.A.T. Below, The Daily Beacon has highlighted several performers and their most memorable moments of being in the drag show.

Jacob Jacoob Clark

Drag name: na VaCeline Dion performing “Down to the River to Pray” yea graduate student, First year masters in business analytics Third time tim in Sex Week Drag Show “A lot of my friends were hanging out and they started playing ‘Down to the River Ri to Pray,’ which people k ow have kn h a tendency to want to I know harmonize harmoni to. I thought, this would be really fun to do in drag. And I knew I could pass collection plates c which raise more money w ich would wh w from all the people who don’t stand from up (during (durin the show).”

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Bangladesh garment workers demand action from UT Hayley Brundige News Editor “My name is Reba Sikder, and I am a garment worker, and I am a Rana Plaza survivor.”

Sikder, a petite woman speaking with the aid of a translator, and Aleya Akte, a labor organizer, traveled more than 8,000 miles from Bangladesh to Knoxville to share their stories with a group of students in the UC Shiloh Room last week.

Sikder worked in a factory called Rana Plaza for two years, working from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week, with “barely any time off,” she said.

And on Wednesday, April 24, 2013, her world came – quite literally – crumbling down.

On the evening of April 23, Sikder and her fellow garment workers could sense something was amiss. A beam fell from the roof and they noticed cracks forming in the walls of the factory.

They were asked to leave that night, but “ordered” to come back the next day to start working again, Sikder said.

“On the 24th, we came back to work but didn’t want to go in because we were very scared,” she said. “We saw that things were not right.”

Within the first half hour of work, their suspicions were confirmed. The electricity in the factory went out, and when the back-up generator came on, the building immediately collapsed.

“I tried to run, but a machine fell on me and a beam fell on the person working in front of me,” Sikder said.

Sikder lost feeling in the right side of her body, but managed to drag herself to an area where four other women were stuck. They were trapped for hours in the unbearable heat, drinking urine to survive the thirst. After days of being stuck, the women were able to stick a pole into an opening to signal for help from an army official.

When the search ended, a total of 1,129 people were found dead and about 2,515 were alive, but injured. In the aftermath of the collapse, the owners of the eight-story building came under fire for building on unstable land and adding three stories without authorization.

Sikder was in the hospital for a month and a half after the disaster and said she never received compensation from the company she worked for.

“I don’t want any factories to ever face something like what my factory faced,” Sikder said. “I have seen too many people die in front of me in those two days, and I never want to see this again.”

To prevent the unsafe working conditions and inhumane treatment that Sikder and thousands of other Bangladeshi garment workers

have experienced, the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety was created to hold factory owners accountable. The accord is legally binding and requires thorough safety inspections of factories.

Sikder and Akte have been traveling to universities around the U.S., entreating students to put pressure on their administrations to only license with companies with ethical labor practices that have signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety.

At UT, the chapters of United Students Against Sweatshops and the Progressive Student Alliance have been campaigning specifically for Vanity Fair Corporation to sign the accord.

JT Taylor, president of PSA, said UT carries Jansport products in its VolShop, one brand within Vanity Fair, which also owns popular brands such as Columbia, North Face and Wrangler Jeans.

“What we’re asking UT to do is get into contact with VF … ask them to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety, ask them to be the first university in the SEC to sign the accord,” Taylor said. “If they say no, we need to cut our contract with them. Cut it so we can put a dent in their pocket, along with all the other universities inside of the USAS network that have done so.”

For Julia Wang, a national leader of United Students Against Sweatshops who has been traveling with the Bangladeshi workers, it is important for students to know just how much sway they have.

“Students line the pocketbooks of their administrators,” she said. “They pay an arm and a leg in tuition every year and because of that we should have a say in how our universities function … Students have leverage and should utilize it to work in solidarity with the rest of the world.”

In this fight, students have the support of UT’s Faculty Senate, which has drafted a letter to the administration, urging them to ask Vanity Fair to sign the accord.

Akte, who works in Bangladesh as a labor organizer, said building a coalition of supporters makes it more difficult for corporations to run from the issue.

“I’ve come very far here with Reba because we believe and have full confidence in all of you that we can work together,” Akte said. “We’re doing all that we can do from our end, but we need your support.”

More than 20 other universities, including Penn State and NYU, have required licensees to sign the accord, according to United Students Against Sweatshops. Sikder also said student support is vital in putting pressure on Vanity Fair Corporation.

“We hope that you are with us in this,” Sikder said. “I am confident that you do not want to wear the blood-stained clothes that we make for you.”

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Nashville band discusses Americana style, artistic influences Jenna Butz Arts & Culture Editor (@butzjenna) Nashville indie pop-rock band Daniel Ellsworth & the Great Lakes played two shows at Rhythm N’ Blooms this weekend, and between their own shows and watching their (many) friends from Nashville perform as well, the four band members took some of their time to talk with The Daily Beacon about matching outfits, being an “Americana” band and what’s next.

Daily Beacon: When did you guys get in town?

Daniel Ellsworth: “We got into town yesterday.”

DB: Did you go to any of the festival yesterday?

DE: “Yeah.”

Marshall Skinner: “Oh yeah. A lot of it.”

DE: “A lot of it. We were in Birmingham on Thursday, and so we came up yesterday, just a day early, to see Delta Spirit. That was the main.

Then, we had a bunch of friends playing from Nashville, so we went to *repeat repeat, Alanna Royale, Apache Relay, The Wans.”

DB: Do you guys play in Knoxville very often?

DE: “Not a ton. We get here usually, we usually get here once a year.”

DB: What are you guys looking forward to today? I know you’re playing your first show today.

DE: “I’m trying to remember even what else is even going on today.”

Joel Wren: “I’m really looking forward to playing earlier and then having the rest of the time to hang out and wander around and see some other people and just experience the festival like we did last night. It was awesome.”

DB: Today you guys play at the Standard and tomorrow at the Pilot Light. Are you planning on making those two shows different in any way?

DE: “Oh yeah. We’ll play different songs.”

JW: “That’s news to me.”

DE: “Nothing drastically different. I might switch shirts. What are we gonna do, T?” Timon Lance: “”We’ll play different songs, and Saturday’s going to rock harder because it’s easier to rock on Saturdays than it is Sundays.”

DE/JW: (laughs) TL: “Tomorrow’s going to be the family show.”

JW: “Today’s for the honeymooners, the week-

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TL: “Tomorrow’s like the long sleeve show. No skin. And then tonight’s like, one of us might not have underwear on. Not to paint anything too graphic.”

DB: What makes you guys different from other artists playing Rhythm N’ Blooms?

TL: “We accidentally coordinate outfits---more often than we’d like to admit.”

MS: “I’m not as familiar with as many of the artists that are playing as I probably should be, but of the ones that I do know, we don’t sound like any of them.”

DE: “We’re a little more indie rock stuff than I think some of the other stuff--or more like indie pop. I don’t know. The Wans are indie rock, but they’re like grunge.”

MS: “Delta Spirit’s more like an Americana vibe.”

DE: “We probably identify with that band the most maybe. In terms of sound probably.”

MS: “But not in terms of songwriting at all.”

DB: Since Rhythm N’ Blooms is supposed to be, technically, an Americana festival, how do you fit in with the overall vibe of Rhythm N’ Blooms?

DE: “It seems like, this year especially--this is our first year playing, but this year especially, it sounds like there’s a lot of stuff that would not fall in the Americana category. It depends on how broad you want to get with that. It gets fairly broad, but it seems like that is maybe still the focus of it. With a lot of the headliners.”

JW: “I’d say we don’t--we don’t have a computer on stage … Maybe how we fit into a folk or Americana fest--we play our instruments.

No offense to anyone. Just all of the sound that comes out is performed by us on stage.”

DB: What are you guys working on after Rhythm N’ Blooms?

DE: “We’re playing a big festival in Nashville next weekend called Rites of Spring, which should be cool.”

TL: “We’re working on a bunch of new music, too.”

JW: “We’re writing a lot right now.”

TL: “It probably won’t be available anytime soon, but that’s where all of our energy is going after Rites of Spring. Just feel like we’ve been writing a little bit, feels like the music is taking on a new character, and it feels good to be party to that change.”

DB: How did you guys decide on your sound when you were creating?

JW: “I don’t know if we decided on it … I think our sound just kind of came. We weren’t setting out to do anything in particular.”

TL: “The sound of ‘Kid Tiger’ is drastically different than ‘Civilized Man.’ We picked Vance Powell (to produce ‘Kid Tiger’) because he has big drums, big guitars.”

JW: “Big guy, big beard.”

TL: “The whole like big rock n’ roll, live-to-tape sound. The White Stripes, Jack White. We picked him because he does that. I think everything else just happened the only way it could.”

DE: “I think in general, less talking about it stylistically, with that record, we set out to make a record that sounded like a live rock band, but figuring out how could we incorporate modern elements into it to bridge that gap between that live rock band sound and some of the more modern stuff that we all listen to.”

TL: “Most of our favorite records were live instudio, and we wanted to do that. We thought we were up to the task, and we like the record.”

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Ode to the Knoxville Botanical Gardens

Jenna Butz Arts & Culture Editor (@butzjenna)

I miss Rhythm N’ Blooms at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens.

Last year, I arrived at the gardens for my first time ever since living in Knoxville. It was the last day of Rhythm N’ Blooms, and I was captivated by the venue’s natural beauty, especially the view from that massive hill we were lazing atop for the day.

I ate way too many cookie ice cream sandwiches from Sunshine Sammies (purely to try as many combinations as possible) and made a mess with pork nachos from the Savory and Sweet food truck.

We wandered through the gardens, ruffling the tall flowers between sets and stared at the view in awe as the sun set.

I think I took a nap at one point in the afternoon while Tim O’Brien and Darrell Scott sang something that sounded like an Appalachian lullaby. It was one of those hot, summer naps that only happens when the sky is changing colors above you, mesmerizing you to sleep and you wake up more tired than you were but in a totally fine way.

I understand why the festival moved exclusively to Old City. It is definitely more convenient to keep the entire festival in one location, logistically and so as to not confuse those from out of town. They have more time to allow more bands to play because there are multiple venues when it is in Old City. The Knoxville Botanical Gardens also isn’t the biggest venue, and it can be hard for everyone to get a decent view. There is also the

“But nothing compares to feeling connected to the mountains and Appalachia while folk musicians sing about the spell that land can put you under...”

ability to keep partying even after the last headliner has performed since Old City has late night venues.

But nothing compares to feeling connected to the mountains and Appalachia while folk musicians sing about the spell that land can put you under or about a love that you can picture having up in those mountains or about being united to a place, any place—even though you would never want to be anywhere else.

Maybe there weren’t enough musicians on this year’s lineup that matched the natural setting in that way and could still sell enough day passes.

Maybe Rhythm N’ Blooms is looking to rebrand itself as less folk and more just Americana, which seems like a fair bet from the diversity in sound seen in this year’s lineup.

But that Sunday, my floral maxi dress, a light breeze, new friends and a patchwork quilt under my feet made me feel like this is what listening to music should always feel like: relaxing in a beautiful place, captivated by a magical sense of community and music.

Jenna Butz is a sophomore in English. She can be reached at jkw546@vols.utk.edu.

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From there, the first night continued with hometown favorite The Dirty Guv’nahs, Nashville indie folk-rock band Apache Relay and the Knoxville wizard rap group LiL iFFy, which began its Final Spell tour during a late night set at The Pilot Light.

Saturday started early in the afternoon with various workshops for musicians about professional skills such as social media and songwriting. Then *repeat repeat started the music at The Standard. Other local Tennessee bands played either the first or second of their many sets of the weekend, including modern folk band Cereus Bright, soul rockers Alanna Royale and high school bluegrass musicians Subtle Clutch.

The night hit its peak when Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers took the Cripple Creek Stage, an elaborate but temporary setup in the Jackson Avenue parking lot. Fans packed into the green barriers to head bang with the music veterans.

Saturday’s late night sets included Guthrie Brown and The Family Tree blasting sound at the sweaty bodies in The Pilot Light and bluegrass band The Whiskey Shivers playing an entire set of The Violent Femmes’ covers at Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria.

Then, the final day opened with a more soulful, relaxed vibe as Amythyst Kiah & Her Chest of Glass began Sunday at the Cripple Creek Stage. She became Bailey Green’s, senior in architecture, favorite following her performance.

“She’s very unique and has an incredible voice,” Green said. “I loved the fusion she creates between blues, soul and old school rock.

And I like that she draws her inspiration from unlikely sources like early folk and blues.”

More people camped out at the main stage to watch that venue’s performances than in the days previously. Cereus Bright, Langhorne Slim & The Law, JD McPherson and, finally, crowd favorite The Decemberists.

“They really brought the audience on stage without bringing them on stage,” Green said about the festival’s headliner. “I felt like I was making music with them.”

It wasn’t just the fans that enjoyed and appreciated Rhythm N’ Blooms, though. Joel Wren, drummer for Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes, vocalized the spirit of playing the festival.

“People are genuinely excited that you’re here, even if they might have never heard of you,” Wren said. “They’re just excited that this is going on and that bands have come and traveled a long ways ... They’re just pumped that you’re here. They’re just excited about the weekend, excited about the experience and to hear new music.”

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1. Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit 2. Tyler Anthony, Luke Bowers and Evan Ford of Cereus Bright 3. Colin Meloy of The Decemberists 4. Families enjoy this year’s Rhythm n. Blooms Festival.

5. Mike Cooley of Drive-By Truckers 6. Guthrie and Maddy Brown and the Family Tree 7. Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists 8. Garrett Sale of William Wild 9. Devin Badgett of Subtle Clutch 10. Belly dancer accompanying the band Strung Like a Horse 11. A young onlooker enjoys Rhythm n’ Blooms All photos by Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

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Research breeds change agents

Kenna Rewcastle Life Under the Microscope

Research Week at UT began last Thursday, featuring the Undergraduate Research Symposium as one of its biggest highlights.

More than 80 undergraduates presented their research to peers, mentors, family members and curious members of the UT community through 15-minute oral presentations. Topics ranged from art history to theoretical physics, and students were challenged to engage these highly interdisciplinary audiences in order to discuss the importance of their field of research and collaboration across academic disciplines.

The value of undergraduate research reaches far beyond adding a line to one’s resume before

applying to graduate school. Participating in research is the ultimate pathway of taking ownership over one’s education. It’s a process of identifying interests, passions and asking for someone to tell you more --- asking to be handed the tools to delve into these subjects further and to engage with these facets of knowledge that first sparked your interest in a classroom.

On Friday, we young researchers were involved in more than advancement of knowledge. We were pushing boundaries, fostering collaboration and working together to create a culture of research amongst our peers at UT. Sixty percent of the presenters were women, demolishing the conventional gender inequality that exists in academia. All presenters were immersed in the process of seeking out research opportunities, securing funding for projects and had begun to define for themselves the boundaries that constrict research at public research universities. We’ve published our research in Pursuit, a journal of undergraduate research that is authored, reviewed, edited and designed entirely by undergraduate students.

In his opening remarks at the beginning of the symposium, Taylor Eighmy, vice chancellor for Research and Engagement, spoke to the

power that undergraduate researchers have as a social force that will inspire and demand change from the institutions that support their work.

We have begun assessing the state of public research universities before we’ve even completed our bachelor’s degrees, and we’ve begun to inspire real, impactful change here at UT by creating a space for undergraduates to contribute to groundbreaking research in a grassroots movement that supports these students.

While we recognize that we are the future of academia in our nation’s leading research institutions, we aren’t waiting for the future to get started. We’ve found strength in numbers, and Research Week showcases the sheer magnitude of the power that we’ve formed in coming together to learn and discover. Undergraduate research transforms the students that seek this commitment to academic exploration, and in doing so, research creates the change agents that will continue to fight for and defend the institutions that value research at their very core.

Kenna Rewcastle is a senior in College Scholars. She can be reached at kenerewc@ vols.utk.edu.

A radical idea: Make voting easier

Thomas Carpenter The Workshop In Oregon, it seems that they have solved, or are at least close to solving, the problem of low voter turnout even in local elections.

Last month, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill changing the way the state’s voter registration system works. Before, Oregon was similar to the rest of our country in that you would have to voluntarily register to vote. Now, if you are an eligible citizen, you are automatically registered by the state and would have to “opt out” in order to not be registered to vote.

The “Motor Voter” law, as it has been nicknamed because you are automatically registered when you go to the Department of Motor

Vehicles for any reason, was actually originally sponsored by Kate Brown when she was Secretary of State, but after her predecessor John Kitzhaber had to step down, she was able to sign her own bill into law.

The way the law works is anytime you go to the DMV, either to get a new license or renew an old one, your information would be collected by the Transportation Department’s Driver and Motor Vehicle Services division and given to the Secretary of State’s office for registration.

Following that, if you do not opt out, you will be mailed a ballot 20 days prior to any election.

Oregon already has one of the highest registration and election day turnout rates in the country due to previous progressive legislation that converted the entire voting process to a mail-in system, eliminating the need to go to a polling location. This new law builds on that and will make Oregon eventually have an almost 100 percent registration rate. Right now, 2.2 million people are already registered to vote in Oregon, and now roughly 800,000 citizens will join in that pool.

The idea of making voting easier rather than harder is almost novel in a nation of growing voter discrimination laws. An increasing number of states are choosing to restrict voting

rights with the passage of discriminatory voter ID laws. The conservatives who have sponsored these laws in states like Tennessee, Texas, Mississippi and almost 30 others, claim to do so by cutting down on voter fraud when, in fact, voter fraud is almost nonexistent in the United States and the number of cases that do occur certainly do not justify the passage of these laws.

At a time when voter turnout is far from ideal, especially in young citizens and minority groups, do we really need more laws that make it harder for us to vote? Oregon is governing from a place of both compassion and efficiency, whereas Republicans seem to be more concerned with making sure the Democrats don’t get their historic minority voter turnout in any way they can.

We need more laws like Oregon’s, especially at the federal level. Voting needs to be a much higher priority for all Americans. Everything that is good about our democracy weighs upon the ability of all of our country’s citizens to have a say in who governs us.

Thomas Carpenter is a junior in classics. He can be reached at ThomasCarpenter@utk.edu and tweeted @tfcarpenter.

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SPORTS

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Lady Vols beat No. 1 LSU 8-5 to avoid series sweep Trenton Duffer @trenton_duffer LSU (38-5, 11-4 SEC) brought their brooms to Lee Stadium on Sunday afternoon in hopes of sweeping the Lady Vols in front of their home fans.

Tennessee wouldn’t allow it, however, as they went on to mop up the Tigers in an 8-5 win that showed Rainey Gaffin pitching the first seveninning game of her collegiate career.

“I’m a little bit tired, I won’t lie,” Gaffin said after the game. “Ralph told me that I would go as far as I could take the team, and I told him I had his back. He told me in the fifth inning that I had this and to go the rest of the way.”

Gaffin allowed eight hits and five runs, all earned. Her pitch count reached 129, with 80 marked as strikes.

One of the keys to this game was the fact that Tennessee didn’t have to play catch-up late in the game. When the Tigers took a 3-2 lead in the third inning, the Lady Vols responded with three runs in the bottom of the inning. They didn’t lose the lead for the rest of the game.

“I told them (the team) that it was an awe-

some feeling to know that if LSU scored runs, we automatically came back right away and scored runs,” Gaffin said. “It was able to take some weight off my shoulders, and I was relaxed more to know that my team had my back 100 percent.”

Annie Aldrete controlled the plate for the Lady Vols’ offense. The sophomore slugger slapped her 12th home run of the year, leaving her one away from tying the sophomore record set by Tonya Callahan in 2006.

Along with driving in a team-high three RBIs, Aldrete also moves into sole possession for fifth place on the all-time home run list for Tennessee.

Aldrete sits with 31 home runs right now, and is currently eight home runs away from taking over fourth place from Jessica Spigner.

After the game, Aldrete seemed more concerned about the task at hand than the home run record.

“I don’t think I’m producing for my team as much as I should lately, so for me to come out and get it done for them feels amazing,” Aldrete said. “That’s all I want to do is get it done for them. I want us to win as many games as possible, and I wanna do it for my pitchers and the hitters.”

With the win, the Lady Vols avoid what would have been their first three-game series sweep since May 2011. This is the first time since March 2013 that Tennessee (30-11, 8-7 SEC) has beaten the No. 1 team in the country.

“Ralph told me that I would go as far as I could take the team, and I told him I had his back.”

-Rainey Gaffin

“At this point, in this season, it’s a pretty big deal,” co-head coach Ralph Weekly said. “My hat’s off to LSU. I think they’re a deserving No. 1 team. We’ve got ‘em behind us, but it doesn’t get any easier with Mississippi State, Alabama or finishing with Kentucky.”

Aldrete led the team in long balls this series with two. Lexi Overstreet was the only other Lady Vol to homer.

Meanwhile, LSU, who entered hitting two home runs in road games this season, hit seven homers as a team. Three of those shots were courtesy of catcher Kellsi Kloss, who brought her season total up to nine.

The Lady Vols will travel to East Tennessee State on Tuesday for a make-up game from earlier this season. That game will begin at 6 p.m.

Tennessee’s next SEC series will be against Mississippi State (31-12, 9-9 SEC) in Starkville.

The Bulldogs beat No. 1 LSU 9-4 on April 8, and will be hungry to do the same against the Lady Vols.

The series begins on April 17 at 6:30 p.m. and concludes on April 19 at 2 p.m. None of these games are scheduled to be televised.

The Lady Vols’ next home game will be on April 21 against Kennesaw State at 6 p.m.

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Defense shows ‘high energy’ at Vols’ Family Day practice

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Vols compete in home opener at 49th annual Tennessee Relays Shane Switzer Contributor

Junior Cameron Sutton leaps for a catch during practice on April 7.

Sutton stated that the defense team had ‘high energy’ during Vols’ Family Day on April 11.

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Megan Roberts Contributor It was a day full of family and football in Neyland Stadium.

From time to time, the players’ families are invited to attend practice and socialize with each other for the day.

According to Butch Jones, family is one of the most important parts of this program. Former Vol running back and head coach Johnny Majors and former All-American safety Eric Berry were also in attendance.

“What a great day to play football” were Butch Jones’ first words in his press conference following practice Saturday.

Jones calls Family Day one of the most special days in the football program.

“To welcome all of our players’ families back, to have them at practice, a family reunion style barbecue—that’s what it’s about. That’s what this program is based on and built upon—family. To have them available and to have them at practice was obviously very, very special.

“Having Eric Berry here is very symbolic of what this football program stands for—that’s family. And we’re all one family.”

Aside from a few extra faces in the stands, it was a typical day of spring practice consisting of individual and position work, some scrimmaging and situational instances, such as overtime.

Wide receivers Pig Howard and Marquez North were in green, non-contact jerseys, along with running back Jalen Hurd. Tight end Cody Blanc was seen in a non-contact jersey as well.

When asked to describe the defense’s performance, Cameron Sutton credited it to “high energy.”

Defensive back Todd Kelly Jr. agreed with Sutton’s statement.

“Whenever we step in Neyland Stadium—we call the defense the Orange Swarm—so we want to be swarming around the ball,” Kelly Jr. said. “When we play against the offense—I know they’re on our team—but when we step in between the lines, we consider them not really friends to us. We want to make plays, and at the end of the day we want to win, and today we won on the scoreboard, so we were pretty excited about that.”

The defense was the most successful unit in practice Saturday. Jones gave credit to their approach while stating that the offense was stale and lacked mental effort.

Jones referenced several players who stood out on the defensive side of the ball. “[Defensive lineman] Kendal Vickers is an individual who’s starting to show up. I thought Todd Kelly Jr. had maybe his best practice of the year, and I think that’s a by-product of Evan Berry—he’s having a very good spring and that’s what competition brings,” Jones said. “You better bring your A-game each and every time you step on the football field.”

Weather played a role in the proceedings of day two of the 49th Tennessee Relays powered by Sea Ray. Heavy rain and strong winds delayed the start of day two until 10:30 a.m. The day’s events were supposed to begin at 9 a.m. with the men’s decathlon and the women’s heptathlon.

Even though dark clouds and a stiff breeze persisted throughout the rest of the day, no other events were affected by the weather.

First year director of track and field/cross country Beth Alford-Sullivan said she wasn’t too worried about the weather when she got to the track. She stated that they took a little delay to make sure the weather wouldn’t be too bad but once they got rolling they didn’t stop.

Brown shines in 100 meters: Junior Felicia Brown ran in the first heat of the women’s 100 meter dash. She won her heat with a time of 11.26 seconds, a windaided time of 11.31 seconds.

Brown got out of the starting blocks quick and was never challenged as she pulled away from the field. She also was named the champion of the 100 meters with her time of 11.31.

“It feels good,” Brown said. “It was my first time running the 100 here at Sea Ray, so it was exciting.”

Her coach was excited, too.

“She is a kid who loves the 100 meters,” Sullivan said. “Easily her best run and just a great competitive environment for the 100.

The 100 is always a draw. The crowds are big and the people are into it, but it’s just great to win at home. It was great to see her win at

home and just get after, as they say.”

In light of setting a new personal record in the event, Brown said that she was excited to race in Knoxville in front of the home crowd, and for her, the biggest thing was staying focused and not letting the home environment break her concentration.

Shot Put Duo: Senior Tavis Bailey and red-shirt senior Matthew Hoty made it to the finals of the shot put competition for the Volunteers. Bailey placed fourth with a throw of 18.73 meters, 61 feet, 5.5 inches while Hoty placed eighth with a throw of 17.31 meters, 56 feet, 9.5 inches.

Afterwards, Bailey talked about how strong and competitive the shot put field was.

“I was just trying to compete with the guys that were top three,” Bailey said. “(I) have a whole lot of respect for them. There were some big fouls and some big throws. It was just an honor.”

Bailey said when he got to the finals his coach told him to just throw it to the grass.

Bailey hoped to use this performance going forward. He said he is looking to build off his momentum from the shot put and have a good showing in the discus.

Knoxville native sets personal record: Kyle Walter, from Knoxville, had the coaching staff running all over the track as he pushed for a new personal record in the 5,000 meters.

He secured his new personal best with a time of 14:22:25. He beat his previous best by almost 29 seconds exactly.

“I’m excited,” Walter said. “I’ve never really trained for the 5,000 (meters). We knew with the training coming in that I was gonna be able to (personal record), it was just a question of how big I could PR.”