It's A Sweep!
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Alabama Baseball Beats Arkansas 7-4 Sunday
Everybody celebrate!
It's a sweep in Fayetteville, Arkansas
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Alabama baseball (30-21 overall, 15-12 SEC) rallied for four runs in the top of the ninth inning on Sunday in Fayetteville, Arkansas to pick up victory number three by a score of 7-4 and sweep the series with Arkansas. This was the first three-game sweep for a Crimson Tide team in Fayetteville since all the way in 2000.
After falling behind in the bottom of the eighth inning as a result of an Arkansas two-run homer, the Crimson Tide bats got busy in the ninth for a four-run flurry to take the win. Both drama and good baseball provided the Tide faithful with a heart-pounding and exciting 7-4 win.
Crimson Tide starter Nick Eicholtz provided 6.0 innings of two-run baseball, while allowing only one earned run. The junior pitcher allowed only three hits and three walks while striking out four Arkansas batters with his 98 pitches on the day. Eicholtz has now allowed only one or no earned runs in seven of his nine Southeastern Conference starts.
Coming up next for the Tide is a midweek game with the Samford Bulldogs. This will be Alabama's final non-conference game of the season. First pitch is 6:30 p.m. CT at Sewell-Thomas Stadium in Tuscaloosa. The game will air live on SECN+.
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Tide Softball No. 6 National Seed In NCAA Tournament
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Alabama Crimson Tide Softball will be making its 18th-consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament. Alabama has earned the No. 6 national seed and will be hosting its 12-straight NCAA Regional.
In addition to the Tide, these will be the teams participating in the Tuscaloosa Regional round: Cal (32-21-1), Texas State (39-20) and in-state Samford (40-18). The first game at Rhoads Stadium will be this Friday, May 20th with a 1:30 p.m. CT start time with the Cal Bears taking on Texas State. Alabama will then face Samford at 4 p.m. CT in a game that will be broadcast live on the SEC Network.
Alabama has an 81-39 (.675) all-time record in the NCAA Tournament, and has been playing there every year since 1999 (and even earlier appearances without the run). The Tide has been the winner of every regional round since 2005, the longest active streak in Division I softball.
The winner of the Tuscaloosa Regional will advance to play the winner of the Seattle Regional, hosted by No. 11 seed Washington (36-13). Other teams in Seattle include Minnesota (41-12), North Dakota State (38-18) and Weber State (37-17).
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Alabama Men's Basketball
OSU Center/Forward Transferring To Bama Basketball
Daniel Giddens
Photo Credit: USA TODAY Sports/David Butler II
Photo Credit: USA TODAY Sports/David Butler II
Daniel Giddens, the 6'10", 240-pound former center/forward for the Ohio State Buckeyes, has announced via Twitter yesterday that he is transferring to the University of Alabama to play basketball for Avery Johnson and the Crimson Tide. Giddens is a former top-50 recruit.
Giddens tweet yesterday:
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Alabama Crimson Tide Rowing Earns 2 Medals
In Big 12 Championship Grand Finals
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Alabama rowing has earned UA its first-ever medals in the Big Championships. After completing competition yesterday in Oak Ridge, Tennessee at Melton Hill Lake, the Crimson Tide's First Varsity 4+ and Third Varsity 8+ earned top-three finishes.
Rowing head coach Larry Davis said, "To get on the medal podium at the conference championship for the first time was a great accomplishment. Even though we finished lower in the overall standings, a lot of people had great success [yesterday]."
The Tide's First Varsity 4+ turned in a second-place finish yesterday in the Grand Final after having finished Saturday in second in its heat and third overall in the preliminaries. Alabama just did edge out Oklahoma by just under two seconds with a time of 7:42.630. The Sooners and the Tide finished neck-and-neck in the Third Varsity 8+ as well, with Oklahoma taking second place by less than a second ahead of the third-place Alabama crew that finished in 7:10.885.
Alabama’s Second Varsity 4+ finished fifth in its Grand Final (8:03.445). The Tide's First Varsity 8+ beat West Virginia in its Petite Final (7:01.649) and the Second Varsity 8+ placed second in its Petite Final (7:09.311).
Davis continued, "The ability to make changes and come back improved on day two really shows that we’re heading in the right direction. It’s really encouraging. We graduated some great seniors but we also have a lot of talent coming back and a great signing class that will join us next season as well."
The Alabama rowing team collectively placed seventh with 15 total points. Texas won the league title and will earn the automatic bid to the NCAA Championships. Tide senior Olivia Dennis was selected as the team’s representative on the 2016 Big 12 All-Conference Team.
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2017 Football Commitments For Alabama Football
The University of Alabama Crimson Tide football team currently has 9 student-athletes who have committed to furthering their football careers at the Capstone. As new commits are announced the list will be updated and released.
Here is the complete list of 2017 commitments to UA as of 5/16/16:
- Najee Harris, RB (6-1, 210), Antioch, California
- Alex Leatherwood, OL (6-4, 300), Pensacola, Florida
- Chadarius Townsend, ATH, (6-0, 180), Tanner, Alabama*
- Xavier McKinney, DB (6-1, 170), Roswell, Georgia
- Brian Robinson, RB (6-2, 210), Tuscaloosa, Alabama*
- Aaron Sterling, DL (6-1, 270), Stone Mountain, Georgia
- Gary Johnson, LB (6-2, 225), Dodge City (Kan.) Community College
- VanDarius Cowan, LB (6-4, 217), Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
- Tua Tagovailoa, QB (6-1, 210), Honolulu, Hawaii
*State of Alabama Recruits/Commitments
