Tide Golfer Cheyenne Knight Is Freshman Of The Year
Alabama Women's Golfer Cheyenne Knight
Freshman of the Year
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Aledo, Texas native and Alabama Crimson Tide golfer Cheyenne Knight has been named the 2016 Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) Freshman of the Year. Knight is the first Bama female golfer to earn the honor.
Knight recorded a team-low 72.28 stroke average
and recorded six top 10 finishes, including a victory at the Darius
Rucker Intercollegiate. She was Alabama’s top finisher at the NCAA
Championships, tying for fourth place with a school-record 72-hole score
of 282 (6-under par). The young freshman also led the Crimson Tide at the SEC
Championships, placing third overall en route to helping the Tide win the
school’s third conference title in the last seven seasons.
The WGCA Freshman of the Year Award is presented annually to the top freshman in NCAA Division I, II and III women's golf. Freshmen must have competed in a minimum of 15 competitive rounds to be considered. The criteria for the award includes:
- Adjusted scoring average for the year.
- Place finishes in regular season events, conference tournaments, the NCAA Regional and Championships.
- Head-to-head comparisons against the top 60 in the Golfstat rankings.
- Comparison of common opponents.
- Strength of Schedule
Darius Rucker With Tide Golfer Cheyenne Knight
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Crimson Tide Freshman Golfer Cheyenne Knight
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Cheyenne Knight
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Freshman Of The Year Cheyenne Knight
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Bama Baseball Falls To Top-Seed Mississippi State 4-1
Alabama Baseball Starting Pitcher Geoffrey Bramblett
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The University of Alabama baseball team fell 4-1 yesterday to top-seed Mississippi State in the SEC Baseball Tournament at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. The No. 9 seed Crimson Tide falls to 32-25 on the season and 1-1 in the tournament.
Alabama head baseball coach Mitch Gaspard had nothing but praise for Mississippi State and their starting pitcher, saying, "I thought today that Zac Houston was terrific and did a great job. I thought Mississippi State played really well and defended extremely well. I thought they just outplayed us today."
Houston put in 8.2 innings of one-run baseball against the Crimson Tide yesterday. The junior allowed just four hits, no walks while striking out five Bama batters. He was pulled from the game, however, in the bottom of the ninth after allowing a pair of hits as the Crimson Tide attempted a comeback. The Bulldogs brought in Blake Smith for his fourth save of the year.
Alabama Crimson Tide starting pitcher Geoffrey Bramblett worked 5.2 innings in yesterday's contest, allowing four runs on nine hits and striking out four. The junior threw a total of 95 pitches on the day.
Gaspard then called on freshman Sam Finnerty in relief of Bramblett who worked the final 2.1 innings. Finnerty did his job, keeping State from scoring, and allowed only three hits and one walk in his first career postseason outing.
Alabama will now face elimination, battling the Florida Gators who fell to LSU last night. The two teams will meet in the second matchup of the morning session on today, approximately 30 minutes following the conclusion of the Texas A&M - South Carolina contest which is scheduled for this morning at 9 a.m. CT. The Crimson Tide will look to sophomore right-hander Jake Walters while the Gators start righty Logan Shore.
Other matchups on tap for today are No. 7 Ole Miss vs No. 6 Vanderbilt at 4:30 p.m. CT, followed by No. 1 Mississippi State vs No. 5 LSU approximately 30 minutes later.
Alabama Head Baseball Coach Mitch Gaspard
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Routliffe Advances In NCAA Singles Championship
Alabama's Erin Routliffe
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The quest continues for University of Alabama junior women's tennis player Erin Routliffe as she has advanced to the NCAA singles championship round of 32 for the second
consecutive season after winning 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 over Arizona junior
Lauren Marker yesterday at the Case Tennis Center on the campus of
the University of Tulsa. Freshman Andie Daniell, who also represented the Crimson Tide on opening day at the singles
championship, fell in to William & Mary senior
Elizaveta Nemchinov, 6-4, 7-6(2).
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5-Star RB D'Andre Swift Places Bama Football In Top 5
Five-Star Running Back Prospect D'Andre Swift
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The Alabama Crimson Tide football program is getting some looks, and praise, from one of the nation's top players. 5-Star running back D'Andre Swift out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has announced his top five choices in where to play his college ball, and Alabama is in that list.
The 5' 11", 204-pound Swift has announced Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Clemson and Penn State as his top five choices right now.
Swift is ranked at the No. 1 all-purpose back in the nation, the No. 1 prospect out of Pennsylvania and the the No. 31 recruit in the country.
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Graduate Transfer Steve Tu'ikolovatu Visits Tuscaloosa
Graduate Transfer Steve Tu'ikolovatu
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The Crimson Tide football program is being shown a little love by graduate transfer Steve Tu'ikolovatu, a 6' 1", 320-pound defensive tackle who recently graduated from Utah. He recently payed a visit to Tuscaloosa to talk with coaches, look over the campus and check out the football facilities.
Tu'ikolovatu played 13 games for the Utes last season, racking up 28 tackles with six for a loss, as well as two sacks. He big man recovered four fumbles on the season, with one resulting in a 37-yard touchdown.
