Bama's Quanesha Burks Again Named To
Bowerman Award Watch List
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| Alabama Track & Field Standout Quanesha Burks Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
Burks has now received this honor four times this season, and six time in her Crimson Tide track and field career. She is the Alabama record-holder in the women's indoor and outdoor long jump. Burks won her third consecutive Southeastern Conference outdoor long jump title at the 2017 SEC Outdoor Track & Field Championships only a week ago. She is only the fourth UA female track & field student-athlete to win three or more conference titles in one individual event.
At the Southeastern Conference Relays on April 29th, Burks anchored Bama's 4x100-meter relay team to a school-record time of 43.17. She won the NCAA indoor long jump in 2016 as well as the outdoor championship in 2015 and the indoor conference title in 2015. Burks holds the top-10 indoor and outdoor long jump records in Alabama history.
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Crimson Tide Softball Student-Athletes
Alexis Osorio And Demi Turner Earn Honors
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Crimson Tide Softball Student-Athletes
Alexis Osorio And Demi Turner Earn Honors
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| Alabama Softball's Alexis Osorio & Demi Turner Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky – A pair of Alabama softball student-athletes have been honored by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA). Alabama Crimson Tide juniors Alexis Osorio and Demi Turner have been named First Team All-South Region. The NFCA announced its complete list of 2017 All-Region honorees on Thursday.
Awards and honors are not new for the Tide's dynamic duo, with this award being the second career honor for both Osorio and Turner,
previously winning as freshmen in 2015 before being selected as
All-Americans later in that season. In its 21-year history, the Crimson Tide has picked up 90 All-South Region honors with 52 of them eventually leading to
All-America accolades.
Osorio is the current Southeastern Conference leader and ranks sixth nationally with 305 strikeouts
over 179.1 innings pitched, an average of 1.7 per inning. She holds a
21-7 record with a 1.29 ERA, pitching 17 complete games that includes eight
shutouts. In 14 games this season Osorio has pitched double-digit strikeouts, including an Alabama-record 19 in a seven-inning perfect game
against Coastal Carolina, In SEC action, she was 9-5
with a 1.56 ERA and 132 strikeouts across 90.0 total innings pitched. Her .123
opposing batting average and .146 clip in Southeastern Conference play both ranked
second in the league.
Turner suffered a facial injury in the Missouri contest, forcing her to miss the majority of the SEC season, only recently
returning in a pinch-running role for the final weekend of Southeastern Conference play and at the SEC Tournament. Despite missing over a month of the
season, Turner still leads the team with a .387 batting average over her
37 starts, garnering 43 hits in 111 at-bats. Turner leads the Tide in multi-hit games with 11 of her 37 starts.
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Alabama Women's Golf Gets First Look At
NCAA Championships Golf Course
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| University of Alabama Women's Golf TeamPhoto Credit: UA Athletics |
The Crimson Tide was the winner by 14 strokes over runner-up Northwestern University in the NCAA Athens Regional, allowing the women to advance to this year's tournament, The win is the third regional title all-time for the Tide, with previous victories coming at the NCAA East Regional championships in 2011 at Daytona Beach, Florida and 2013 at Auburn, Alabama.
The UA women's golf team will be grouped with Stanford and Florida in Friday's opening round and will begin play at 12:30 p.m. CT from the 10th tee.
Individual Alabama Golfers Tee Times
12:30 p.m. (CT): Mia Landegren
12:41 p.m.: Lakareber Abe
12:52 p.m.: Kristen Gillman
1:03 p.m.: Lauren Stephenson
1:14 p.m.: Cheyenne Knight
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Big Bama Baseball Loss On Thursday Night
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| Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – The only time the baseball game was even close between the Alabama Crimson Tide and Vanderbilt Commodores last night was just before the first pitch was thrown. Of course, the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was already gone before the game, and as it turns out, this game was gone before the game. UA baseball suffered a huge loss on Thursday night, 18-1, to Vandy at Hawkins Field in Nashville, Tennessee. With the loss in the series opener, Bama is now 19-33 overall on the season and 5-23 in the Southeastern Conference.
Vanderbilt starter Patrick Raby (9-3) was on indeed, working 7.0 scoreless innings, allowing just two hits while issuing five walks and striking out seven Bama batters for the win. Alabama's Deacon Medders (2-1) worked 3.0 innings in his first career SEC start and took the loss for the Tide.
Chandler Avant was responsible for Alabama's only run of the game, going one-for-four with the run and one RBI. Cody Henry was one-for-two and John Trousdale was one-for-one on the evening.
The Crimson Tide and Commodores meet for game two of the series tonight. Game time is set for 6:30 p.m. CT at Hawkins Field. Jake Walters will start for Alabama while Vandy counters with Kyle Wright.
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Alabama Softball Opens NCAA Regional Play Today
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| Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - The University of Alabama Crimson Tide women's softball team opens regional play today hosting the 2017 NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional at Rhoads Stadium.
Minnesota and Louisiana Tech will open regional play with a 1:30 p.m. CT first pitch followed by the Alabama-Albany matchup slated for a 4 p.m. CT start. The Bama babes are 42-16 on the season, while Albany enters postseason play at 27-16. The contest between the Crimson Tide and Great Danes will be broadcast on the SEC Network.
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| Photo Credit: UA Athletics/Robert Sutton |
