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Alabama baseball avoids sweep with upset victory over No. 1 Texas A&M on Saturday
Alabama baseball defeated top-ranked Texas A&M 10-9 on Saturday to avoid being swept at home.
After a half-hour weather delay and a quick first frame, No. 14 Alabama (25-15, 7-11 SEC) opened the scoring in the second inning with Mac Guscette’s second grand slam in as many games. Guscette entered the series having yet to hit a home run this season, but he made his first two count by saving them for loaded bases. A sacrifice fly by Ian Petrutz gave the Tide an early 5-0 lead.
The Aggies (35-5, 13-5 SEC) responded, posting two runs in the third inning. A sacrifice fly by Guscette in the bottom of the frame added another run to make it a 6-2 Alabama lead. A&M narrowed the gap again with a three-RBI double by Gavin Grahovac in the fourth, and Alabama made a pitching change from Zane Adams to Tyler Fay. Adams put up another solid start (3⅔ innings pitched with five hits, five runs, and three strikeouts) after last weekend’s breakout performance.
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Kade Snell hit his fourth home run of the season in the fifth to stretch the lead, but the Aggies stormed back in the sixth inning. After an RBI triple by Travis Chestnut cut the Alabama lead in half, Alabama replaced Fay with Alton Davis II. A two-run home run by Jace Laviolette soon after gave the Aggies an 8-7 advantage, their first lead of the game.
Gage Miller tied the game with a solo home run in the sixth, but A&M loaded the bases and scored on a sacrifice fly in the seventh to reclaim the lead at 9-8. Alabama responded by loading the bases themselves before Bryce Eblin hit a two-RBI single to put the Tide back in front 10-9.
Davis shut out the Aggies in the eighth and ninth innings to give Alabama the victory. He logged his fourth win of the season and had three strikeouts in the win.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) – Pauline Love, the new head coach of the Alabama women’s basketball team, says her late college coach, Joye Lee-McNelis, is the reason she got into coaching.
Love played for Lee-McNelis at Southern Miss, describing her as a second mother. Lee-McNelis passed away last summer after a long battle with breast cancer.
A relationship that changed her path
Love said she once told Lee-McNelis she would never go into coaching, a conversation the two laughed about often.
“I used to tell her all the time, I would never do this. I would never put up with somebody like me or I would never work for somebody like her. I was like coach, you’re crazy. We used to laugh about it all the time and she was like you’ll see one day, you’ll see,” Love said.
Love had planned to work in the tech industry. Instead, she has spent 15 years in coaching.
“She pretty much paved the way for me. There’s no way I’d be sitting here if it wasn’t for her,” Love said.
High expectations at Alabama
Love returns to Tuscaloosa after previously serving as an assistant at Alabama. She was introduced as head coach in April, and was brought to tears when she mentioned Lee-McNelis during that introduction.
Her goals for the program are clear.
“I’m going to have a passion about it. I want to bring a Final Four to the University of Alabama and make Tuscaloosa proud,” Love said.
This year’s roster includes Spring Garden’s Ace Austin, back for her sophomore season.
Love said she wants her players to know that difficult times are part of the process.
“I can say for them, I’ve been there. I’ve done it. Just learn how to figure out and fight through hard things. You gotta do something hard and fight through it and I promise you it’s rewarding at the end of it,” Love said.
Love said she also wants to be a source of support for her players off the court, the same way Lee-McNelis was for her.
“I know we always get caught up in the money part of it, but I got a group of girls that doesn’t care about that. They want to care about making the fans happy and giving them something good to watch,” Love said.
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Alabama football fans are invited to a preseason pep rally Aug. 4 at the Tuscaloosa River Market.
The pep rally is part of the annual fall kickoff event hosted by the Tuscaloosa County chapter of the University of Alabama National Alumni Association.
The family friendly event will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the River Market, 1900 Jack Warner Parkway. Tickets, which include a barbecue dinner, cost $30 for adults and $15 for children ages 8 to 12. Children 7 years old and younger will be admitted for free.
The pep rally will feature live entertainment, a silent auction and a range of family-friendly activities. There will also be a cash bar with wine and beer.
Tickets can be purchased on the chapter’s website, tuscaloosacountyuaalumni.com. Membership in the local alumni chapter is not required for attendance.
University of Alabama President Peter Mohler and UA baseball coach Rob Vaughn will be part of the festivities.
Mohler began his duties as UA president on July 21, 2025.
Before being named UA president, Mohler spent nearly 15 years at Ohio State University, where he held senior leadership roles overseeing research, innovation and economic development. He also served as OSU’s acting president, providing leadership during a pivotal period for one of the nation’s largest public universities.
Mohler earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Wake Forest University and a PhD in cell and molecular physiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Duke University Medical Center before joining the faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Vaughn has been UA’s head baseball coach for three years, leading the Crimson Tide to the College Baseball World Series in 2026.
The Humble, Texas, native served as head baseball coach at Maryland for five seasons before coming to Tuscaloosa.
Vaughn played collegiate baseball at Kansas State, where his position was catcher.
Alabama begins the 2026 football season on Sept. 5 with a home game against the East Carolina Pirates. Kickoff is set for 11 a.m. at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Other Alabama home games include Florida State on Sept. 19, South Carolina on Sept. 26, Georgia on Oct. 10, Texas A&M on Oct. 24, Chattanooga on Nov. 21 and Auburn on Nov. 28.
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