Alabama Softball Takes Extra-Innings Win
In NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional Tournament
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| Photo Credit: UA Athletics/Robert Sutton |
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama – The University of Alabama softball team took a one-run victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers on Saturday in the NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional. The Crimson Tide needed nine innings to to pick up the 1-0 win, with neither team able to score until a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth gave Bama the win.
The Tide (44-16) now advances to its 15th-consecutive NCAA Regional final, playing for a regional championship every single season since 2003. Alabama's NCAA Regional win streak also extends to 33 games, last losing in a regional contest back in 2007. The 1-0 shutout victory over the Golden Gophers (55-4) is the 25th of the season for the Bama pitching staff, and is only one shy of the single-season school record.
Alabama's Alexis Osorio (22-7) picks up the win, while Minnesota's Sara Groenewegen (30-3) suffered the loss. Osorio allowed only two hits over 9.0 shutout innings with 11 strikeouts. Demi Turner accounted for two of Alabama's four hits batting ninth. Turner was two-for-three on the day. Reagan Dykes earned the game-winning RBI on a bases-loaded walk in the ninth inning. Chandler Dare and Bailey Hemphill went one-for-four in the contest.
Next for the Alabama Crimson Tide is the NCAA Regional Championship game today scheduled for 1:30 p.m. CT.
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| Photo Credit: UA Athletics/Robert Sutton |
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| Photo Credit: UA Athletics/Robert Sutton |
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Crimson Tide Baseball Season Ends
With 3-3 Tie With Vanderbilt Commodores
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| Photo Credit: UA Athletics |
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – The 2017 University of Alabama baseball regular season has come to an end with a 3-3 tie. The three-game series with the Vanderbilt Commodores saw the Crimson Tide falling in the first two contests by huge, double-digit margins, but Bama managed a tie in the finale by virtue of rain washing out the remainder of the contest being played at at Hawkins Field in Nashville. UA finishes its regular season at 19-34-1 overall and 5-24-1 in Southeastern Conference play.
In his first-ever career start, Alabama pitcher Garrett Suchey picked up the win with a season-long 105 pitches. The junior allowed just two runs on six hits and two walks while striking out a season-high seven batters. The only two runs Suchey gave up were on an RBI-triple and a solo home run.
Chandler Taylor, Cody Henry and Sam Finnerty all individually finished one-for-three with a run scored, while Taylor added his team-leading 16th home run of the season. Henry and Finnerty both picked up a double on the day, with Connor Short also adding a double as part of his one-for-three day that included an RBI.
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Four-Star 2018 Running Back Dameon Pierce
Decommits From Alabama
And then there were two.
The Alabama Crimson Tide football program had three commitments for the class of 2018, but now only two remain as four-star running back Dameon Pierce of Bainbridge, Georgia announced via Twitter that he was decommitting from Alabama and reopening his recruitment.
Pierce, 5' 11", 205-pounds, had been committed to Alabama since last July, but had visited The ----Capstone only one time since that commitment.
The four-star running back recruit is ranked 144th nationally according to the 247Sports composite
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2018 University Of Alabama Football Commits
The University of Alabama Crimson Tide football team currently has 2 student-athletes who have committed to furthering their football careers at the Capstone. As new commits and signees are announced the list will be updated and released.
Here is the complete list of 2018 commitments and signees to UA as of 05/21/17:
- Jordan Davis, DE (6-6, 240), Memphis, Tennessee
- Xavier Williams, WR/ATH (6-1, 185), Hollywood, Florida
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Texas Transfer Tevin Mack
Set To Join Crimson Tide Men's Basketball
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| New University Of Alabama Men's Basketball Commit Tevin Mack Photo Credit: USA TODAY/Jeffrey Baker |
The University of Alabama Crimson Tide basketball program has a new student-athlete in the fold. He's former four-star Texas transfer Tevin Mack.
The 6' 7" forward and former four-star recruit has announced his transfer-choice to be Avery Johnson the Alabama basketball program. Mack will have to sit out the 2017-2018 basketball season due to transfer rules, but will be eligible to begin play in for Bama in the 2018-2019 season.
According to ESPN.com, Mack visited The Capstone earlier this past week and chose Alabama over the Georgia Bulldogs.
Mack averaged 14.8 points and 4.8 rebounds per game for the Longhorns last season, before being indefinitely suspended from the team. He shot 45.9 percent in the 15 games he played as a sophomore.
Mack will have two years of eligibility remaining.
