Alabama Softball Bounces Back to Take Series Finale from Texas A&M

It was gut-check time for Alabama softball in Faculty Station Sunday afternoon after dropping the primary two video games of the collection to Texas A&M. 

The Crimson Tide responded with a 4-2 win over the Aggies, avoiding the sweep. Montana Fouts needed to battle within the circle all sport, nearing her season excessive with 140 pitches, however earned her twentieth win of the season. She solely allowed one earned run, and completed with eight strikeouts. 

After constructing leads within the first and third innings, Texas A&M responded twice to tie the sport up. Ashley Prange knocked her sixth residence run of the season over the scoreboard in left subject for Alabama to retake the lead 3-2 within the prime of the fifth, and the Crimson Tide was capable of maintain on to that lead for the rest of the sport. 

Alabama was capable of tack on an insurance coverage run within the sixth with a sacrifice fly from Savannah Woodard. Within the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, Alabama had runners on second and third with one out, and solely scored the one run on the sac fly from Woodard. Total, the Crimson Tide left 10 batters on base. 

The Aggies threatened within the fourth when the eight-hole hitter reached with a single, and Fouts walked the nine-hole hitter to convey up probably the greatest hitters within the SEC with two runners on. Lee hit right into a double play, and Fouts was capable of escape the jam.

The double play appeared to invigorate the Crimson Tide protection, and it carried over into the subsequent half inning with the Prange residence run.Coming into the collection, Lee was batting .487. She went 0-4 on Sunday, and Alabama restricted her to simply two hits on the weekend. 

Regardless of having alternatives the primary two video games to construct an early lead, Alabama lastly scored within the first inning of sport three on a solo residence run from freshman Jenna Lord. 

Lord was the one Alabama batter to have not less than one hit in each sport of the collection. 

Total, it was not the weekend the Crimson Tide hoped for in Faculty Station. Alabama struggled in all areas at varied factors all through the collection. The protection had a season excessive 5 errors on the weekend. The pitching gave up 13 earned runs throughout the the three video games, and the offense averaged solely three runs a sport.  The Aggies got here into the collection with simply three SEC wins, however after dropping the primary two video games, Alabama battled again on Sunday to win the collection finale. 

With the win, Alabama improves to 39-8 (14-7 SEC) and the way has somewhat little bit of a break heading into the postseason. The crew will journey to Bowling Inexperienced to play Western Kentucky on Wednesday at 4 p.m. They’ve subsequent weekend off and won’t play once more till the ultimate residence collection towards Missouri starting Could 6.