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Alabama Softball Faces Jacksonville State Tonight
The University of Alabama Crimson Tide softball team (15-1) will travel to Jacksonville, Alabama this afternoon to take on Jacksonville State University (7-7). The contest will be held at University Field, with the first pitch scheduled for 5 p.m. CT. The Tide is riding a 14-game win streak headed into the afternoon contest.
Alabama leads the series with Jacksonville State 17-0. The last meeting was in May of 2013.
Lady Tide Opens SEC Basketball Tournament With LSU
It's SEC Tournament time for women's basketball!
The University of Alabama women's basketball team (15-14) opens Southeastern Conference tournament play this morning at 10 a.m. CT. The Lady Tide are to face the 13th-seed LSU Tigers (9-20) in the 2016 SEC Tournament in Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida. Bama is seeded 12th in the tourney.
Today's contest will be broadcast on the SEC Network+ on the WatchESPN App. The game will also be available on the Crimson Tide Sports Network.
This will be the 56th meeting between the two teams in a series that dates back to 1977. LSU holds a 37-18 lead in the series, but Bama picked up the last win 78-65 in their SEC opener back on January 3rd.
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Men's Basketball Faces Arkansas Tonight
Crimson Tide basketball has won six of it's last eight contests, and will have a chance to improve on that mark tonight when Alabama hosts the Arkansas Razorbacks at Coleman Coliseum tonight for its final regular season home game. Tip off is set for 8 p.m. CT. This is also Senior Night for the Crimson Tide as Bama honors ARTHUR EDWARDS and RETIN OBASOHAN just prior to the start of the game.
Tonight's contest will be the 59th meeting between the two schools. Arkansas holds a small 30-28 overall edge in the series. The Tide are 19-5 when playing the Hogs in Tuscaloosa.
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Crimson Tide Baseball Takes Down Troy 2-1
Graphic/Photo Credit: RollTide.com
The University of Alabama baseball team notched another win in the young season by defeating Troy yesterday evening by a 2-1 score. Strong pitching gave the Crimson Tide their seventh victory, improving their record to 7-1 overall on the season. It was junior closer THOMAS BURROWS stepping up big to earn the victory and his 22nd career stop to set the all-time mark for career saves at UA. This was the first win ever at Troy.
Bama held a 2-1 lead heading into the bottom of the eighth when a pitching change was called for. First MATT FOSTER was brought in for 0.2 of an inning followed by Burrows for the final 1.1 innings. Burrows knocked out all four of the batters he faced, and, in fact, has yet to give up a hit this season in his five appearances on the mound. Burrows also added three strikeouts to his season total.
JOHN KELLER started on the mound for the Tide, pitching 4.0 innings and allowing four hits, one walk and two strikeouts. It was MIKE OCZYPOK and TYLER ADAMS following Keller on the mound combining for 2.0 innings to allow no scores, one hit, one walk and one strikeout.
SAM FINNERTY (1-0) came in contest in the bottom of the seventh to earn his first career win with 1.0 inning of pitching. He allowed one hit and struck out one, then the Bama offense got in gear for two runs in the top of the eighth to take the lead.
Alabama baseball head coach MITCH GASPARD said, "It seemed like we had quite a few opportunities out there, but we found a way to score in the end. I thought our pitching was outstanding as well as Troy's, whose staff
did a great job on the mound. It was a well-played game on both sides.
We were able to stretch two and they were able to stretch one; that's
just part of the game."
The Crimson Tide will now head to Cary, North Carolina for four games when they play in the USA Baseball-Irish Classic this coming weekend. Bama will play Notre Dame on Friday at 4 p.m. CT to begin the weekend. The Tide plays a pair of games on Saturday, with Niagara up first at 11:30 a.m. and then a 3:30 p.m. contest with North Carolina State. Sunday morning the Tide will conclude the Classic with a match up with Brown at 11 a.m. CT.
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