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Vanderbilt University baseball was coming off a 6-1 shellacking yesterday by Texas A&M. Today the Commodores righted the ship and put a shellacking on Alabama 16-1 in the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament. Bama's lone run came in the first inning, trailing 1-0, on a deep pop-out by Mikey White that sent Chandler Avant over home plate.
Though the first inning ending in a 1-1 deadlock, Vandy came back in the second to score another run to put the game at 2-1, where it remained until Bama was shell-shocked by a Commodore eight run scoring barrage to take a commanding 10-1 lead.
Alabama never recovered from the hard-hitting fourth inning, giving up more runs in subsequent innings. Three more runs crossed home for Vandy in both the fifth and sixth innings giving the Commodores an insurmountable lead at 16-1.
Though Bama was able to keep Vandy from scoring in the seventh, the Tide themselves were unable to score ending the game at 16-1.
Bama had one run, four hits, and 1 error. Vandy had 16 runs on 19 hits and 0 errors. The Tide was able to only record four hits. Alabama's record slides to 32-28 in what is likely the last game of the season.
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Softball
The No. 6 University of Alabama softball team hosts the 11th-ranked Oklahoma Sooners this weekend in the Tuscaloosa Super Regional at Rhoads Stadium. Bama is 45-12 overall, 17-7 in the SEC.
The Crimson Tide swept its opponents in the Tuscaloosa Regional by a combined score of 28-1 in three games. Bama had nine home runs in three games last weekend, with Haylie McCleney accounting for four of those.
Defensively, of the 18 innings pitched last week in three games, Bama pitchers allowed just one unearned run on five hits.
Game one is this evening at 6 PM CDT, with game two set for Saturday at 4 PM. Both games will be carried on ESPN. Should a game three be needed it will be played Saturday at 7 PM CDT. That game would be televised on ESPN2.
The Tide is 7-3 all-time against Oklahoma.
