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The University of Alabama softball team (48-14) advanced after their 1:30 PM game today by knocking off Oregon (51-8) by a 2-1 score in the Women's College World Series at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
This was the fifth complete game of the postseason for Tide starting pitcher Alexis Osorio (22-9). She held the Oregon offense to only one run on three hits. Osorio had her highest strike-out total of the NCAA Tournament with nine.
Bama's two runs came in the bottom of the second inning. Chandler Dare hit a two-run single scoring Danae Hays, who got on base by a walk, and Danielle Richard who got on base hitting a double.
Oregon's lone score came in the third inning. Though Oregon threatened in the fourth inning, the Tide defense rose to the occasion.
The Tide is to play in another elimination game with LSU (51-13). The game is to get underway at 10:42 PM CDT. The winner of the contest plays Michigan on Sunday.
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SEC Relaxes Restrictions On Satellite Camps
It won't happen this summer, but by next summer the fourteen head coaches and assistants of the SEC schools could be bringing a football camp to the likes of New York, California, Michigan, or Ohio.
The Southeastern Conference has let it be known if the NCAA doesn't do something about the so-called satellite football camps, then the 14 member schools of the SEC are going to be travelling the country doing the same as the other conferences...recruiting in the other guys' back yards. Make no mistake, that's what the satellite camps are: recruiting tools and not the "let's help these kids improve their skills" kinda thing that the Big 10 is blowing up everyone's rear ends.
The SEC would rather see the NCAA ban the satellite camps, or at the very least put restrictions on them. However, it has been decided that the SEC is at a disadvantage not allowing the member schools to do what the other conferences and schools can do, and others actually are doing.
There are those who believe the Big 10 will rue the day they opened this can of worms. Year and and year out the schools in the south out-recruit the others. Thus this new satellite camp gambit.
In poker one might say their hand just got called. And I have a feeling a raise is coming.
