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Bama Softball Hosts The Easton Crimson Classic
The second-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide softball team (16-1) will host the Easton Crimson Classic at Rhoads Stadium in Tuscaloosa this weekend. Bama welcomes Louisiana-Monroe, DePaul and North Dakota State in what should be an exciting weekend of softball.
The Tide will play two games this afternoon. The first will be at 4 p.m. CT with Louisiana-Monroe and the second following at approximately 6 p.m. CT.
Two games are also on tap for Saturday, with Bama starting the day at 1:30 p.m. CT with DePaul, followed by a match up with North Dakota State at 4 p.m. CT.
Alabama will then have one contest on Sunday, and that one being with Louisiana-Monroe with a 1:30 p.m. CT first pitch.
The Crimson Tide is riding a 15-game winning streak, and has hit home runs in four straight games now as well as seven of the last nine contests. Bama has outscored its opponents 31-11 at Rhoads Stadium thus far in the season.
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4-Star RB Cam Akers No Longer Committed To Tide
Running Back Cam Akers
Photo Credit: MississippiGridiron.com
Another football recruit has de-committed from the University of Alabama class of 2017. Clinton, Mississippi four-star running back Cam Akers announced yesterday that he is no longer committed to the University of Alabama, although his statement indicates that Alabama will still be considered. Akers made the announcement via his Twitter account.
The 5' 3", 210-pound running back is ranked as the number three running back in the class of 2017 according to 247Sports composite rankings.
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Women's Tennis
9th-Ranked LSU Squeezes Out 4-3 Win Over Bama
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The 38th-ranked Alabama women's tennis team (4-5, 0-1 SEC) lost their first Southeastern Conference contest of the season yesterday to the ninth-ranked LSU Tigers (12-3, 1-0 SEC) falling by a score of 4-3.
Tide head coach JENNY MAINZ said, "I want to credit LSU. They came out here ready to work. I thought they rebounded well after
the doubles point. But we have to be able to take our opportunities when
we get them. We were a little bit hesitant. We’ve talked about trusting
our swings and trusting our plays and playing the big points to win
them. I don’t think we grabbed opportunities that we needed to grab,
especially in a match that was that close. Honestly, that was probably
the difference."
Mainz when on to say that even tough they didn't win the match, "we did a lot of things really well. We competed really well. We have to build on this and get ready for Saturday.
Alabama faces its second top-15 opponent of the week in the 14th-ranked Texas A&M Aggies. The match is scheduled for noon CT this Saturday, March 5th in Tuscaloosa.
Photo Credit: RollTide.com
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Tide Women's Golf To Compete In Tournament
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The eighth-ranked Alabama women's golf team heads to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina to compete in the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate March 4-6. The tournament is being held on the beautiful par-71, 6,243-yard yard Pete Dye Course at the Long Cove Club. The event is being hosted by the University of South Carolina.
Bama just completed a third-place finish at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Championship with a 4-over par 292 in the opening round and finished with consecutive rounds of par golf. Seniors EMMA TALLEY and JANIE JACKSON both finished in the top 10, with Talley tied for third place and Jackson tied for seventh.
Besides the No. 8 Crimson Tide the field includes No. 6 Arkansas, Auburn, No. 2 Duke, No. 28 Furman, No. 3 Georgia, Kentucky, No. 48 LSU, Mississippi, No. 45 North Carolina, No. 12 Oklahoma State, host No. 31 South Carolina, No. 1
USC, No. 19 Tennessee, No. 42 Vanderbilt, No. 29 Virginia and Wake
Forest. The Duke Blue Devils won the event last season with a 6-over 858. Alabama
finished 11th last year led by Emma Talley,
who tied for 10th with a 54-hole total of 218 (+5). The Tide claimed
the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate team title in both 2012 and 2013.
The Crimson Tide will tee off from hole No. 1 beginning at approximately 8:20 a.m. CT this morning and has been paired with USC and Duke.
