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BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Tennessee fought back in the fourth quarter, but the team fell 67-63 on Sunday afternoon at Cassell Coliseum.Virginia Tech led by as many as 13 in the fourth quarter, but the Lady Vols cut the deficit to three with 1:17 remaining in the game on two free throws by Jaime Nared. Mercedes Russell recorded one of her three rejections with 55.6 seconds remaining as she knocked it back off Chanette Hicks to give the Lady Vols possession.Diamond DeShields hit Russell on a screen-and-roll to cut the deficit to 62-61. However, the Hokies regained a three-point lead as Chanette Hicks went into the lane and made a layup while being fouled. Hicks missed the free throw, to keep the game at one possession with 29.9 seconds remaining.Nared drove into the lane, but couldnt convert a layup amidst contact, and the Lady Vols were forced to foul. Hicks made two free throws to seal the game.Russell finished with 17 points and season highs with 14 rebounds and three blocks. DeShields and Nared each finished a rebound shy of a double-double as DeShields had 15 points, nine rebounds and five assists while Nared fell one rebound shy of a double-double with 11 points and nine boards. Jordan Reynolds finished with 11 points and eight rebounds.Hicks led the Hokies with 24 points, five rebounds and eight steals. Regan Magarity finished 16 points and Sidney Cook scored 14 points and added 12 rebounds.The Lady Vols opened up the game with a Nared layup, but the Hokies rattled off eight straight points on their way to taking an 18-10 lead after the first quarter.Tennessee made a run during the second period as Mercedes Russell made her impact during a 13-3 Tennessee run. Russell had four points and two rebounds in the spurt. Meme Jackson hit a three pointer to bring the score to 25-24 and the Lady Vols retook the lead after DeShields stole the ball and passed ahead for a fastbreak layup by Jaime Nared.The third quarter opened as a tight affair, Russell converted a three point-play with 3:27 remaining in the frame to tie the game, but Virginia Tech scored seven consecutive points, six of those on layups by Regan Magarity. Virginia Tech was able to push their lead to 11 by the end of the third.After the Hokies scored the first bucket of the fourth quarter to push their lead to 13, the Lady Vols responded with a 9-0 run, with four of those coming from Jordan Reynolds to get back into the game, but the team wasnt able to finish it out.The Lady Vols will return to the court on Wednesday, Nov. 30 as they take on Tennessee State at 7 p.m. ET on SEC Network +/WatchESPN. The Lady Vols are 4-0 all-time against Tennessee State with the last victory coming in 2014 as the #4 Lady Vols defeated the Tigers 97-46.Double-Double BrigadeMercedes Russell recorded her fourth double-double in five games so far this season with 17 points and 14 rebounds.Russell recorded her 14th career double-double which moves her into a tie for 21st place all-time on Tennessees career double-double chart. She is tied with Shelia Collins (1981-85), Pashen Thompsen (1993-97) and Vonda Ward (1991-95).Jaime Nared recorded her second consecutive double-double as she finished with 11 points and 10 rebounds. It is Nareds third career double-double and second of the year.Block PartyRussell recorded three blocks, she is now ranked 10th on the schools all-time career blocks list as she passed Chamique Holdsclaw.The Lady Vols blocked six shots in the first half of the game vs. Virginia Tech which was more than they had blocked in any of their previous four games in 2016. The teams season high was four in the win over James Madison.Tennessee finished with 10 blocks, led by three from Russell, and two from DeShields and Reynolds.Jordan Reynolds finished with two blocks, tying a career high that she last set against Alabama on Jan. 31, 2016. Gus Williams Jersey . -- Jimmie Johnson held off a teammate, passed a pair of Hall of Famers, and dominated once more at Dover. Michael Cage Jersey . Aaron Harrison scored a 22 points for Kentucky (6-1), which has won four in a row following a Nov. 12 loss to current No. 1 Michigan State. Julius Randle overcame a scoreless first half and added his sixth double-double in as many games with 14 points and 10 rebounds. https://www.cheapthunder.com/991h-ricky-pierce-jersey-thunder.html . -- Team after team passed on Andre Ellington in the draft. Luguentz Dort Jersey . The defence is doing its part, too. Drew Brees threw a pair of touchdown passes in the first half and the guys on the other side made sure that was enough, sending the Saints to a 17-13 victory over the Atlanta Falcons on Thursday night. Oklahoma City Thunder Gear . That gave fans outside Joe Louis Arena another chance to ask for autographs from the 19-year-old whose stardom in the NHL has arrived earlier than most expected. Suddenly Yorkshire are the masters of white-ball cricket. Alex Lees and his players will arrive at Edgbaston for Finals Day in the NatWest Blast expecting to do well and, to add to their pleasure, there is also a 50-over semi-final against Surrey in prospect.But it was not always this way. Just two months ago Yorkshires best chance of getting points in the NatWest T20 Blast seemed to be an abandonment. So how has the team that was regularly beaten turned into the team to beat? What has changed?Having won five of 14 games and finished next to bottom of the North Group in 2015, Yorkshire had won none of their first five matches this year (although two were abandoned) and seemed to have little chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals.Then they played Derbyshire at Headingley on June 19 and, when rain swept across the ground, their nine-over score gave them a grimy one-run Duckworth-Lewis victory. That was the first of seven wins Yorkshire were to record in this years Blast and, following last Thursdays demolition of Glamorgan at Cardiff, they will arriving at Edgbaston on Saturday in confident mood.I think most people were writing us off but we had that self-belief that if we got one win, we would get on a roll and do well, said the T20 skipper, Lees. As a team weve bought into the ideology of backing yourself and backing your team-mate. The key is to do the same thing when things are not going so well.We sat down and had a couple of chats and said that we knew we were better than the way we had performed. Weve been poor since 2012. Weve done it as a team, as a collective, and thats our blue print.All of which is fine, of course, but rather similar things might have been said by any skipper whose county was playing pretty dismal short-form cricket. And yes, T20 is a game of frustratingly daft narrow margins. The key is to ensure that, far more often than not, you end up on the right side of them. The reasons go deeper than that.Lets go back to that game against Derbyshire because it was important for more than just the result. The game saw the return to Yorkshires T20 team of Adam Lyth, whose confidence had received a fillip when he had hit successive 50-over hundreds against Northamptonshire and Lancashire a few days previously. Lyth blasted 30 off 16 balls, hitting three fours and a couple of sixes. Muck or nettles, he has carried on blasting ever since.But the match against Derbyshire also saw the return to Yorkshires T20 side of Azeem Rafiq, who had been released a couple of years earlier, yet whose form has been such since his re-engagement that he has been awarded his first-team cap. Rafiq is currently bowling his short-form overs at 6.9 runs apiece and he has taken 13 wickets, making him second only to Adil Rashid and Tim Bresnan in Yorkshires list of successful T20 bowlers this season. Azeem was a revelation for us, particularly in those middle overs with Adil, Lees said. He gives you consistency. His bowling has made my jjob a lot easier.dddddddddddd. I was assured hed be back at some point in the next few years but I didnt know in what capacity and now hes been rewarded with his first-team cap.And the biggest thing for Adam is that hes been backed. There is a carefree attitude that were going to go out and have a good time. The same thing can be said of David Willey, who didnt get the runs he would have liked early in the season.There is a sense in all this that Yorkshires cricketers have taken the brakes off in T20 cricket. Those brakes may not have been applied at all times in all games but they do not need to be. You only need to have four bad overs in the short-form stuff and its Goodnight, Vienna.Perhaps something of this approach was communicated to Lyth and his players by Kane Williamson, the New Zealand leader to whose team talks Rafiq has paid particular tribute.Theres never just one voice in our dressing room, said Lees. There are 11 players who voice their opinion and thats the Yorkshire way in all our cricket. Kane came in at the right time, he was a great character to have around the dressing room and he gave us a bit of direction as to the way we should go, particularly when we were unsure.Kane give us that calmness as well as his own view. We got on a roll when no one believed we should be at a Finals Day and here we are.The results of any change of attitude have been different with each player but they have been particularly evident with two cricketers at very different stages of their career. Jack Leaning has found that hitting sixes is something he can do on a regular basis while Bresnan is suddenly mixing up his deliveries like a drunken postman.Jacks gone from nudging and nurdling it around to whacking it out of the park, said Lees. Hes found his method in white-ball cricket and that can only come from confidence and hes now very confident in that format.Tim is experienced and he probably looked at how he went last year and just adapted things a little bit. May be he has mixed it up a little bit. This year it seems hes bowling tight and he was exceptional in the game at Cardiff but in his own words his first ball was a pie and he got a wicket with it. Last year, it would have gone out of the ground.Liam Plunkett has been some rapid spells, proof that simple, searing pace has a home in Twenty20 and Lees himself, in his first season as a youthful captain, has worked on his own game well enough to enter Finals Day as Yorkshires leading run-scorer.Some would argue that Yorkshire are the form horses at this years Finals Day and they will be boosted by the availability of Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow et al. Whatever else, they will play without fear and with a brio that was absent in the grim days of May and early June. It has been some transformation but at Edgbaston it will receive its most searching test. ' ' '