Alabama Men's Golf Third After First Day
Of Mason Rudolph Championship
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It was Mason Rudolph Championship host and third-ranked Vanderbilt (277) closing out yesterday's first round just one stroke ahead of the Crimson Tide for the second place slot, followed by No. 21 Duke in fourth (282), No. 49 Middle Tennessee (282) and No. 52 Iowa (282) rounding out the top five through the first day of the contest.
Alabama redshirt freshman Josh Sedeno led the Tide with a career-best round of 3-under par 68. Sedeno picked up five birdies and only two bogeys as he beat his previous single round low by four strokes. Sedeno enters the second round today in a tie for third overall and only two shots behind first round leader Theo Humphrey of the Vanderbilt Commodores (66).
Junior Lee Hodges came through for Bama shooting a round of 69 to tie for eighth overall, giving UA two golfers among the top-10 individuals on the day. It was Hodges' 12th in his last 13 rounds that he has shot under par, while it also marked the fifth time over his last seven rounds that he has recorded a score in the 60s.
Junior Jonathan Hardee also came in below par, finishing with a 1-under par 70 on the par 71, 7,100 Vanderbilt Legends Course South. He sits in a tie for 17th heading into today's second round. Hardee has now carded a sub-par score on seven different occasions.
The fourth Alabama golfer to shoot par or better was sophomore Davis Riley, finishing the day with an even par score of 71 in a tie for 23rd. Junior Steven Setterstrom rounds out the Crimson Tide golfers in a tie for 49th with a 3-over 74.
Alabama will tees off this morning at 10:10 am. CT off Hole No. 1 for the second round of play. on Saturday morning at 10:10 a.m. CT off Hole No. 1. The Tide will be grouped with Florida and Vanderbilt.
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Hogs Ride The Tide To 7-1 Victory
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Alabama Baseball Falls To Arkansas On Friday
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Hogs Ride The Tide To 7-1 Victory
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Alabama Baseball Falls To Arkansas On Friday
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TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – The University of Alabama baseball team hasn't caught many breaks so far this season, and Friday evening was no different. The Crimson Tide suffered another loss, this one to the tune of 7-1 to the No. 21 Arkansas Razorbacks at
Sewell-Thomas Stadium. Bama drops to 12-14
overall and 1-6 in Southeastern Conference play.
Speaking of the Arkansas starting pitcher, Alabama Crimson Tide baseball head coach Greg Goff said, "(Blaine Knight) is a guy that can really pitch. He can mix his pitches up and competes at a
high level. He was just in total command tonight. I thought we competed
with him, if you watch the last few starts he's had. We scored a run
there in the first and had some good at-bats. We limited our strikeouts
and hit some hard right at him, but he was in control tonight."
Knight (4-1) tossed eight innings of one-run baseball last night. The sophomore right-hander limited the Bama bats to just one
run on three hits, while collecting seven strikeouts in his eight innings of work. Following the one run allowed in the bottom of the first inning, Knight went on to retire 19 Tide hitters in a row, while sitting down 22 of
the final 23 batters he faced.
Crimson Tide starter Jake Walters (4-3) tossed 4.1 innings of baseball before handing the ball over to freshman Deacon Medders,
who threw for another 3.2 innings, allowing one
unearned run. The freshman right-hander pitched a career-high in
strikeouts with four.
Cobie Vance and Tanner DeVinny both hit for a double in the game, with Vance adding one run scored. Hunter Alexander went one-for-four with an RBI on the evening.
The two teams will again face off tonight at 7 p.m. CT, with the game airing on the SEC Network. Starting for the Tide will be sophomore
left-hander Dylan Duarte, while the Razorbacks will go with junior right-hander Trevor Stephan.
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Bama Gymnastics Begins NCAA Morgantown Regional
As Number One Seed
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Crimson Tide head gymnastics coach Dana Duckworth said, "The ladies are primed and ready. We had a great practice in this beautiful facility and we're ready to come out on fire [today]."
The six-team regional gets underway this afternoon at 3 p.m. CT, with the Bama Belles as the number one see.
Joining the Tide in the Morgantown Regional will be second-seed Michigan, No. 3 seed Southern Utah as well as George Washington, host school West Virginia and Kent State.
Alabama will open the regional on the uneven bars. The Tide will then move on to the balance beam before going to its first bye, followed by the floor exercise and vault before finishing on a bye.
Each of the regional teams will have an individual gymnast from a school that did not advance rotating with it. Rotating with the Crimson Tide will be Majesta Valentine of West Chester.
The top-two teams from each of the six regionals across the country will then move on to the NCAA Championships, which will be held in St. Louis, Missouri on April 14-15.
The Alabama Crimson Tide comes into the Morgantown Regional having won an NCAA-best 31 regional titles and advancing to the NCAA Championships 34-consecutive years.
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Alabama Women's Tennis
No. 1 Florida Gators Ease On By Bama
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SINGLES:
1. No. 21 Belinda Woolock (Florida) defeated No. 38 Erin Routliffe (Alabama) 6-1, 6-1
2. Andie Daniell (Alabama) vs. No. 15 Josie Kuhlman (Florida) 5-7, 0-2, DNF
3. Danielle Spielmann (Alabama) vs. No. 16 Ingrid Neel (Florida) 6-2, 2-6, DNF
4. No. 22 Anna Danilina (Florida) defeated Smith Hinton (Alabama) 6-1, 6-1
5. Maddie Pothoff (Alabama) vs. Brooke Austin (Florida) 3-6, 3-3, DNF
6. No. 35 Kourtney Keegan (Florida) defeated Joanna Savva (Alabama) 6-1, 6-1
DOUBLES:
1. No. 25 Erin Routliffe/Maddie Pothoff (Alabama) vs. No. 9 Brooke Austin/Kourtney Keegan (Florida) 2-5, DNF
2. No. 24 Anna Danilina/Ingrid Neel (Florida) defeated Andie Daniell/Joanna Savva (Alabama) 6-3
3. No. 35 Josie Kuhlman/Belinda Woolock (Florida) defeated Juliana Valero/Danielle Spielmann (Alabama) 6-0
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Alabama Softball Falls 2-0 To Missouri
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Alabama Softball Falls 2-0 To Missouri
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The University of Alabama Crimson Tide softball team dropped its third Southeastern Conference contest of the season with a 2-0 shutout at the hands of the Missouri Tigers. Though the Crimson Tide ( 31-5 overall, 7-3 SEC) outhit the Tigers 6-4, Bama stranded six runners and allowed Mizzou to take advantage of UA miscues.
Alabama pitcher Alexis Osorio (16-3) took the loss to Missouri (19-13, 2-4), striking out 10 batters while allowing two unearned runs on the night. Mizzou picked up one run in both the second and fourth innings to take the win.
Demi Turner led the Crimson Tide offense going for two-for-three on the night with a pair of singles.
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Alabama Rowing Captures Three Race Wins Friday
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UA rowing head coach Larry Davis said, "I thought we did a great job stepping up against good competition in unfavorable conditions. We have faced some adverse conditions this year, most recently in Virginia against Bucknell, and we are learning to handle these conditions better."
Heavy winds and more buffeted the various craft, greatly affecting the course and the way the boats handled, especially the second half, but the Bama ladies handled themselves very well indeed.
"The 4s performed really well today," Davis said. "We'll need to make sure they're on their numbers tomorrow. The other teams started making late pushes in the races and we held them off and today, but we'll need to do the same tomorrow. The Third Varsity 8+ was a very close, back-and-forth race."
Alabama's First Varsity 8+ placed third in its race, posting a 6:38.6 finish trailing UCF and Tulsa. The top three crews were the only ones in the race to finish under 6:40.0. Alabama's Second Varsity 8+ finished fifth in 7:01.36.
"We had a couple errors where we flubbed a few strokes where we could have made a push," Davis said about the First and Second Varsity 8+. "Those probably cost us a few seconds in the 1v8+. The 2v8+ struggled a bit after the first 1,000 meters with choppy water and wind.
"Overall though, it was a really good day against good competition. There are some things we can do better tomorrow but, against a tough slate of competition, I thought we performed really well."
Friday Results – Alabama
Second Varsity 4+: 1st – 7:31.7
- Lineup: Erin Hayes (Cox), Lydia Blount (4), Leslie Feriozzi (3), Abby Wohler (2), Abby Marks (1)
- Lineup: Claire Estep (Cox), Rachel Sowell (4), Rebekah Stewart (3), Virginia Dodenhoff (2), Sarah Giuliani (1)
- A: 1st – 6:55.9
- Lineup: Sydney Boles (Cox), Kylie Diffley (8), Danielle Kem (7), Arielle Schafer (6), Allie Pospisil (5), Ariana Sweany (4), Hailey Higgins (3), Olivia DeGroot (2), Lauren Fehr (1)
- B: 3rd – 7:01.44
- Lineups: Elle Anderson (Cox), Meghan Hampton (8), Gabby Sprio (7), Olivia Miller (6), Becca McGinn (5), Alex Griffith (4), Victoria Kacsits (3), Anne Lehmann (2), Katie Scott (1)
- Lineup: Shannon Sweatt (Cox), Jackie Guezille (8), Laura Egeland (7), Maggie Gillespie (6), Makena Clark (5), Carley McCoin (4), Katie Toth (3), Gaby Crawford (2), Cheyenne Adams (1)
- Lineup: Emily Navin (Cox), Raien Emery (8), Nicole Lane (7), Charlotte Adkins (6), Tayla Cabana (5), Peyton Cowell (4), Monica McGraw (3), Lindsey Taylor (2), Jennifer Parker (1).
