High Tide: Bama Baseball Loses To ORU; Alabama Baseball Press Conference; Crimson Tide Softball Caps Undefeated Weekend With Win Over UCF; Alabama Swimming & Diving Results; Tide Women's Basketball Falls To Mizzou; Kristy Curry Press Conference Following Loss; 2017 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament Bracket

Bama Baseball Loses To ORU 5-2

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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – In Sunday's series finale, the Alabama baseball team fell to Oral Roberts University 5-2 at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. The Crimson Tide now slides to 3-4 on the season.

University of Alabama baseball head coach Greg Goff said, "We can't let this weekend define our season. We got outplayed from a pitching, defensive, and timely hitting standpoint. Hopefully this motivates our guys and helps them understand that getting swept is not acceptable. We've got to come out tomorrow at practice and get better."

It was Cobie Vance leading the Crimson Tide in hitting, finishing three-for-four with one walk, while extended his hitting streak to seven games. Vance has now collected a hit in every game of the season for Bama and leads the Tide with 15 hits. Chandler Taylor produced a one-for-three night with one RBI, a walk and a run scored, while also picking up his team-leading fourth home run of the season.

Alabama hosts in-state foe Jacksonville State on Tuesday evening. Start time is 6 p.m. CT at Sewell-Thomas Stadium. The game will air on SEC Network+.

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Bama Baseball Press Conference

Following Loss On Sunday To Oral Roberts University

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Alabama Softball Caps Undefeated Weekend

With 3-2 Victory Over UCF

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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – It was a low-scoring affair on Sunday, but it was still a win. After posting some much bigger run totals at the beginning of the weekend, the Bama bats were slowed but still able to pull out a win on Sunday as the Alabama softball team defeated the UCF Knights 3-2 at the Easton Bama Bash.

Alexis Osorio (6-1) took the win for the Crimson Tide (13-2), allowing just two runs, one earned, while allowing just three hits with 14 strikeouts.

The Tide's Carrigan Fain was two-for-two on Sunday, and ended up with the honor of being named Easton Bama Bash MVP. She was 7-of-10 (.700) over the course of the weekend with two doubles, two runs scored and threee RBIs over five games. It was Bama's Reagan Dykes driving in two of the Crimson Tide's three runs on Sunday with a two-run home run in the second inning, her first home run of the year, while Claire Jenkins tallied the third with a third-inning sac fly.

Also earning All-Tournament honors with Fain were Bailey Hemphill, Chandler Dare, Merris Schroder and Sydney Littlejohn.

Alabama will next head to Birmingham for a matchup with in-stater UAB (3-8) on Tuesday. Game time is at 6 p.m. CT.

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Alabama Swimming & Diving Teams

Win In 1,650 Freestyle & Sets Numerous Career Bests

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ATHENS, Georgia – The Bulldog Invitational is in the books, and the University of Alabama swimming and diving team closed it out with a win in the 1,650 freestyle along with several career-best times.

Crimson Tide freshman Daniel Kober won the men's 1,650 freestyle in a time of 15.09.02, by more than six seconds behind the runner up.

Bama senior Alex Gray took second place in the men's 100 freestyle in a time of 43.74. Freshman Kyle Maas posted a 1:44.95 to take second in the men's 200 backstroke after having posted a 1:44.31 earlier in the preliminaries. Maas' prelims time ranks him sixth all-time at UA.

In the women's 200 backstroke, it was sophomore Sarah Helm taking third with a time of 2:01.12. In the prelims, sophomore Katie Coughlin posted a 1:58.57 in the 200 backstroke.

UA junior Will Freeman took third place in the men's 200 butterfly with a time of 1:43.89, with Taylor Charles taking fourth place with a time of1:44.67. Both Freeman and Charles posted career-best times. Freeman's mark ranks him fourth all-time at Alabama while Charles' time ranks him sixth all-time.

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Crimson Tide Women's Basketball

Falls To Mizzou In Season Finale

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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – It was a tough loss for Alabama women's basketball in Sunday's regular-season finale, falling 65-56 to 24th-ranked Missouri at Coleman Coliseum in Tuscaloosa. The Crimson Tide ends the regular season with a record of 17-12 overall, 5-11 in SEC play. Missouri improved to 21-9, 11-5.

University of Alabama Crimson Tide softball head coach Kristy Curry said, "I thought our kids today really competed. We just came up short."

Crimson Tide junior Quanetria Bolton led Alabama in scoring with 13 points, with freshman Jordan Lewis just one point back with 12. Bolton also finished with a team-high six rebounds, with freshman Ashley Knight picked up four blocks to tie Yolanda Watkins for the most blocks in a single season at UA with 68. Watkins record has stood for 23 years, dating back to the 1993-94 season.

Curry commented, "This is a great honor for her (Ashley Knight). "It's given us a different dimension inside, to be able to overplay on the perimeter and be able to pressure more because we know we've got great help waiting there that can really change things at the rim. I know we will all be excited when she can get that one more block."

The Tigers were led by senior Sierra Michaelis with a game-best 22 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter, eight rebounds and three assists.

"I'm glad and hope I don't get to see (Sierra) Michaelis anymore," said Curry. She is a great player, and she always does such a great job against us of really knocking down tough shots in tough moments in games, and I think that is a real credit to her today. I thought she was the difference maker for their team down the stretch. Playing well as a senior is what seniors do."

Next up for Bama, the Tide travels to Greenville, South Carolina for the 2017 SEC Women's Basketball Tournament. Games are set to begin on Wednesday, March 1st at 10 a.m. CT at Bon Secours Wellness Arena.