Alabama Softball's Alexis Osorio
Named SEC Co-Pitcher Of The Week
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| Alabama Softball Pitcher Alexis Osorio Is Honored Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
This is the third weekly award of Osorio's career. She has previously been honored in this fashion by the SEC on February 29, 2016 and February 13th earlier this season. Overall, Alabama softball has won SEC Pitcher of the Week 36 times in UA softball history.
In three game appearances last week Osorio was a perfect 3-0. striking out 38 batters over 15.0 innings while not allowing a single run. She began last week by earning the first win in relief on Tuesday, February 28th in the contest at UAB, pitching 4.0 innings garnering nine strikeouts and allowing only three hits allowed to earn the extra-inning victory.
Osorio's second win for the Tide came on Friday, March 3rd against Jacksonville. Osorio combined with sophomore Madi Moore to pitch a no-hitter , already the second no-hitter that Osorio has pitched in this season along with her perfect game at Coastal Carolina back in week one. Osorio struck out 11 batters over 5.0 innings against the Dolphins.
In her final game of the weekend on Saturday, March 4th against Stanford, Osorio captured a complete-game victory over the Cardinal with 18 strikeouts in 7.0 innings, allowing just one hit. Her 18 strikeouts is the second-highest total in a single game in Alabama softball history. That total trails only the 19 strikeouts she pitched earlier in the season. That one was a perfect game against the Chanticleers. Osorio was named the Easton Crimson Classic MVP for her achievements this past week
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Osorio has an NCAA-leading 122 strikeouts, averaging 2.09 per inning with a 7:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio this season. She also leads the Southeastern Conference in opposing batting average (.085) and is third in hits allowed (16) and fourth in wins (9).
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| Alexis Osorio Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
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Alabama Gymnastics Improves Regional Qualifying Score
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Team Ranked Sixth This Week
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There is no change this week in the top-six teams this week. The Oklahoma Sooners remain at No. 1 the week, followed by LSU (2) and Florida (3) taking the top three spots followed by UCLA (4), Utah (5) and, of course, Alabama at No. 6. Georgia moved up to seventh, followed by Denver, Oregon State and Boise State rounding out the top-10.
The Crimson Tide has already faced half of this week's top-10 this season, including Oklahoma, LSU, Florida, Georgia and Boise State.
Bama is ranked in the top-five on all four events this week. UA is ranked third on the floor exercise, fourth on the balance beam and fifth on both the vault and uneven bars.
Tide junior Kiana Winston comes in fourth in the all-around, fifth on the floor exercise, eighth on the balance beam and 15th on the uneven bars this week. Junior Nickie Guerrero is fourth on the balance beam while senior Aja Sims comes in at No. 12 and freshman Maddie Desch is 19th on the floor exercise. Senior Katie Bailey comes in 17th on the vault and 24th on the uneven bars.
Alabama will return to Coleman Coliseum for its regular-season finale this Friday, March 10th when the Crimson Tide takes on Iowa State starting at 7:30 p.m. CT.
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Alabama Women's & Men's Track & Field
Remains Steady In Rankings
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Both teams will participate at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships this week, which will be held March 10-11 at Texas A&M University. The Crimson Tide will send 21 athletes, 11 men and 10 women, to this year's championships competing in seven men's events and nine women's events. The 21 competitors will be the most UA has ever sent to the NCAA indoor championships.
The national team rankings are compiled by a mathematical formulae based on national descending order lists and data taken from previous seasons. The purpose and methodology of the rankings is to create an index that showcases the teams that have the best potential of achieving the top spots in the national team race. Ranking points do not equate with NCAA Championships team points.
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Alabama Baseball Welcomes Troy Today
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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – A pair of in-state foes will do battle today, with campuses not all that far apart. The University of Alabama baseball team will welcome in-state foe Troy
to Sewell-Thomas Stadium in Tuscaloosa tonight for a single contest. The Crimson
Tide and Trojans between their in-state battle at 6 p.m. CT The Joe.
Today's game will air live on SEC Network+ with Eli Gold
and Lance Cormier making the call.
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Alabama Divers Participate In NCAA Zone B Championships
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Alabama Divers Participate In NCAA Zone B Championships
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| Brent Sagert UA Swimming & Diving Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
AUBURN, Ala. – University of Alabama swimming & diving is participating in the NCAA Zone B Championships being held in Auburn, Alabama this week. Crimson Tide diver Brent Sagert has earned a place in the finals of the 1-meter springboard in the NCAAs.
Sagert finished 17th after the preliminaries with a score of 282.60 points. He scored 302.50 points over six dives for a 12-dive
total of 581.10 points and 15th place in the finals. Junior David Morton finished 28th after preliminaries with 256.60 points.
Leading the way for the Alabama women was sophomore Ayanna Woods, coming in at number 26 on the
3-meter springboard after tallying 263.75 points over six dives. Senior Kara Fredlock (245.30 points) finished 31st on the 3-meter board while sophomore Margy McCarthy (228.90 points) finished 35th off the 3-meter board as well.
Today the Bama women will go off the 1-meter and the men will go off
the 3-meter. On Wednesday, both the men and women will compete off the
platform.
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| Ayanna Woods UA Swimming & Diving Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
Alabama Gymnastics Takes Down Georgia Bulldogs
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ATHENS, Ga. - The sixth-ranked Alabama gymnastics team posted its best score in a road contest of the season to beat the eighth-ranked Georgia Bulldogs in Athens, Georgia by a score of 197.700-197.325. It was the Crimson Tide's second-highest score of the season overall and Georgia's season high.
UA gymnastics head coach Dana Duckworth said, "That was a very important road win for so many reasons including building our trust and confidence. I think it says a lot that our ladies stayed in their bubble, stayed relaxed and truly had fun and executed what they had trained all week."
Keely McNeer was missed by the other Bama ladies, having injured her hand in a car accident this past Thursday. The senior was Alabama's leadoff on the vault, uneven bars and balance beam for a majority of the past three years and shared the team lead for the most routines in competition this season.
Duckworth said, "Due to the turn of events, with Keely having her accident and people having to step in – like Abby Armbrecht on the balance beam, Aja Sims on the uneven bars and Wynter Childers on the vault –having people step up and come through like that was big."
Alabama Scores:
Uneven Bars - 49.400
Kiana Winston - 9.925 Katie Bailey - 9.900
Vault - 49.275
Bailey - 9.875 Maddie Desch - 9.875
Floor exercise - 49.500
Winston - 9.95 Ari Guerra - 9.900 Desch - 9.900
Balance beam - 49.525
Nickie Guerrero - 9.875 Winston - 9.925 Desch - 9.900 Armbrecht - 9.875
Duckworth continued, "For us to be solid on the last two events after we were less than perfect on the first two, shows the kind of resilience that this team is going to need to be successful in the end. This was awesome preparation for the SEC Championships where every event is going to be tight."
Winston captured the win in the all-around with a 39.650, the second highest total of her career. It was her fifth all-around win of the season.
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Mike Miller Hired As Graduate Assistant
For University Of Alabama Crimson Tide Football
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It has been reported that the 26-year old Miller will be working with quarterbacks and wide receivers.
Miller was a student assistant coach at Clemson in 2015 and spent this past year as a high school offensive coordinator, helping Charlotte Christian in North Carolina advance to the state title game and finished the season at 10-2.
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Alabama Football Offers 5-Star QB Emory Jones
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| 5-Star QB Prospect Emory Jones Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
The Crimson Tide is in search of a quarterback for its Class of 2018, but nine of the 10 top players at the position have already committed. Of course, this won't stop Saban from offering.After all, Bama was able to flip Mac Jones in the 2017 recruiting class, who was committed to Kentucky, and very well may have to do it again to get another top quarterback prospect.
Tim Barron, Jones' high school coach, says that Jones is just being polite and courteous to the schools that continue to recruit him, but is not having any second thoughts on his decision to be an Ohio State Buckeye.
The 6' 2", 193-pound Jones is listed as a 5-star prospect in the 247Sports Composite, the country’s No. 24 overall prospect, the No. 1 dual-threat QB, and the No. 3 prospect in the state of Georgia.
Though the only remaining uncommitted quarterback, Dorian Thompson-Robinson, has Alabama listed as one of his top schools, Michigan and UCLA are the favorites to actually land him.
