Bama Baseball To Face Auburn; Coach Goff Previews Alabama Baseball This Week; Alabama Softball To Host Kent State; Tide Men's Swimming & Diving 10th In NCAAs, Capture 21 All-American Honors; 2017 SEC Gymnastics Awards

Bama Baseball To Face Auburn Today

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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – The University of Alabama baseball team will face the No. 18 Auburn Tigers today in the MAX Capital City Classic at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, Alabama. Today's contest will be the final one in Bama's five-game road trip. The Crimson Tide and Tigers are scheduled for a 7 p.m. CT start tonight at the home of the Montgomery Biscuits. The game will be broadcast live on ESPNU with Dave Neal handling play-by-play and Gabe Gross providing the color for the midweek, non-conference matchup (result does not count towards SEC record).

This will be the 287th meeting between the two teams, with UA holding a 157-129 advantage. Alabama holds a slight 24-23 edge in neutral site games. This will be the ninth meeting between the Tide and Tigers at the MAX Capital City Classic, with Auburn leading the Crimson Tide 7-1 and have won two-consecutive going into tonight's contest.

Alabama will start freshman left-hander Garret Rukes in tonight's matchup. Auburn has chosen freshman-righty Christian Camacho to start for the Tigers.

Following tonight's game Alabama will host it's third SEC series by welcoming the Arkansas Razorbacks to The Joe from March 31-April 2 for a trio of games. The first of the three games is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. CT on Friday night, followed on Saturday with a 7 p.m. CT start. The series finale will be Sunday at 3 p.m. CT. The series opener can be seen on SEC Network+, while the final two games of the weekend will air nationally on SEC Network.

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Coach Goff Previews Bama Baseball This Week

Click HERE to watch this week's preview

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Alabama Softball To Host Kent State

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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - The ninth-ranked University of Alabama Crimson Tide softball team will host the Kent State Golden Flashes tonight at 6 p.m. CT at Rhoads Stadium. Bama is 30-4 on the season, while State holds a 10-15 record. 

The Tide leads the Southeastern Conference in strikeouts with 321 as well as wins with a total of 30. In conference-only games, Alabama is ranked first in hits (63) and wins (7), second in batting average (.290), on base percentage (.391), walks (34) stolen bases (10) and strikeouts (62) and is third in runs scored (44).

Alabama head coach Patrick Murphy is just one win shy of his 1,000th career victory, boasting an overall record of 999-279 (.782). This includes a 28-20 record as the interim head coach at Northwest Missouri State in 1995 and a 971-259 (.789) mark as the head coach of the Crimson Tide, a position he has held since 1999.

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Alabama Men's Swimming & Diving

Alabama Swimming & Diving 10th In NCAAs

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Nine Bama Men Take 21 All-American Honors

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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana - Over the course of the four days of the 2017 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, not only did the 2017 University of Alabama Crimson Tide men's swimming and diving team take its third-consecutive top-10 finish, but it also took numerous honors in the process. A total of nine members of the UA team earned 21 All-American honors during the championships in Indianapolis last week.

Here are the nine members of the Alabama Men's Swimming & Diving team along with the 21 honors earned:

• Laurent Bams (3), Sophomore – 200 freestyle relay; HM: 100 freestyle and 400 freestyle relay
• Alex Gray (1), Senior – HM: *400 freestyle relay
• Robert Howard (2), Sophomore – 200 freestyle relay; HM: 400 freestyle relay
• Luke Kaliszak (3), Junior – 100 backstroke, 200 medley relay and 200 freestyle relay
• Anton McKee (2), Senior – 200 breaststroke HM: 200 breaststroke
• Connor Oslin (3), Senior – 100 and 200 backstroke and 200 medley relay
• Christopher Reid (1), Junior – HM: 400 freestyle relay
• Pavel Romanov (1), Senior – 200 medley relay
• Zane Waddell (5), Freshman – 200 freestyle relay and 200 medley relay HM: 50 and 100 freestyle and 400 freestyle relay

*swam on the relay in prelims

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2017 Southeastern Conference Gymnastics Awards

Gymnast of the Year: Alex McMurtry, Florida
Event Specialist of the Year: Ashleigh Gnat, LSU
Freshman of the Year: Mollie Korth, Kentucky
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Alex McMurtry, Florida
Coach of the Year: D-D Breaux, LSU


All-SEC

Katie Bailey, Alabama
Maddie Desch, Alabama
Kiana Winston, Alabama Hailey Garner, Arkansas
Samantha Cerio, Auburn
Gracie Day, Auburn
Emma Engler, Auburn
Kullen Hlawek, Auburn
MJ Rott, Auburn
Emma Slappey, Auburn
Kennedy Baker, Florida
Alicia Boren, Florida
Amelia Hundley, Florida
Alex McMurtry, Florida
Rachel Slocum, Florida
Lauren Johnson, Georgia
Sydney Snead, Georgia
Sidney Dukes, Kentucky
Alex Hyland, Kentucky
Mollie Korth, Kentucky
Ashleigh Gnat, LSU
Myia Hambrick, LSU
Ruby Harrold, LSU
McKenna Kelley, LSU
Lexie Priessman, LSU
Becca Schugel, Missouri
Britney Ward, Missouri



All-Freshman

Wynter Childers, Alabama
Maddie Desch, Alabama Hailey Garner, Arkansas
Jessica Yamzon, Arkansas
Gracie Day, Auburn
Emma Slappey, Auburn
Rachel Gowey, Florida
Amelia Hundley, Florida
Mollie Korth, Kentucky
Kennedi Edney, LSU
Ruby Harrold, LSU