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Britt eyes historic Senate win in Alabama
By KIM CHANDLER, Related Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala (AP) — Republican Katie Britt is trying to grow to be the primary girl elected to the united statesSenate from Alabama as she seeks to seize the seat opened by the retirement of GOP Sen. Richard Shelby. Britt faces Democratic nominee Will Boyd and Libertarian John Sophocleus in Tuesday’s race for the uncommon open Senate seat in Alabama.
Shelby, 88, is retiring after serving six phrases within the U.S. Senate. Britt is Shelby’s former chief of employees and the previous chief of the Enterprise Council of Alabama, a enterprise foyer. If elected, Britt will grow to be the primary girl to win election to the U.S. Senate from Alabama and would be the first Republican girl to carry one of many state’s Senate seats. The state’s earlier feminine senators, each Democrats, had been appointed.
Britt, who gained the GOP nomination after a hard-fought main, has raised greater than $10 million in the midst of her Senate marketing campaign. Boyd has raised $105,000 and Sophocleus didn’t increase sufficient funds to require submitting a marketing campaign finance report.
Boyd is the presiding bishop of Zion Ministries and pastor of St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church —a 162-year-old church in Florence, Alabama. He was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor 4 years in the past however misplaced to Republican Will Ainsworth. Boyd captured about 38% of the statewide vote within the 2018 lieutenant governor’s race.
Boyd additionally ran for the Senate in 2017 however misplaced the Democratic main to Doug Jones, who went on to grow to be the primary Alabama Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in 1 / 4 of a century. Jones was the final Democrat to win statewide workplace in Alabama, however misplaced his reelection bid in 2020 to Republican Tommy Tuberville.
Sophocleus is a former economics teacher at Auburn College. The Libertarian candidate’s platform consists of the abolishment of federal gun legal guidelines and expanded use of initiative and referendum. Libertarians are again on the poll in Alabama after a 20-year-absence. Get together leaders secured the wanted signatures to get their candidates on the poll for the primary time since 2002.
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Alabama baseball avoids Iron Bowl sweep, wins season finale with Saturday win over Auburn
Alabama baseball won its regular season finale at Auburn 12-5 on Saturday in a game that lasted over six hours due to a ninth-inning weather delay. Auburn clinched the series with wins on Thursday and Friday, but Alabama avoided the sweep with Saturday’s victory.
The No. 24 Crimson Tide (33-21, 13-17 SEC) started the scoring with an RBI single by Kade Snell to score Ian Petrutz in the first inning. Auburn (27-26, 8-22 SEC) responded with an unearned run in the bottom of the frame. After Chris Stanfield reached first on an error and stole second, Ike Irish brought him home with an RBI single to tie the game 1-1 after one.
In the second inning, Alabama went down in order, and Auburn scored again on an RBI groundout by Stanfield. The Tigers stretched their lead to 4-1 with a two-run home run by Mason Maners in the fourth inning.
Game One: Alabama baseball falls to Auburn, 4-2, in the first game of final series of the season
Game Two: Alabama baseball battles back but drops wild game at Auburn to lose the Iron Bowl series
The Alabama offense looked flat against Auburn starter Christian Herberholz through four innings but finally got a hold of him in the fifth frame. A Will Hodo walk and Max Grant single gave the Tide runners on the corners, which Gage Miller turned into an RBI single. Petrutz laid down a sacrifice bunt to advance Grant and Miller to scoring position, and a single by William Hamiter into right field gave Alabama two more runs to tie the game at 4-4.
Mac Guscette caught two Auburn runners stealing in the bottom of the fifth, and the Alabama offense stayed hot into the sixth, even after Auburn turned to Dylan Watts on the mound. Consecutive singles by T.J. McCants, Hodo and Grant loaded up the bases, and Watts was pulled for Ben Schorr. Miller welcomed Schorr to the game with a three-RBI double to reclaim the lead for Alabama. A hit-by-pitch, balk and intentional walk sequence reloaded the bases for Guscette, who got hit by a pitch to cross another run and give Alabama an 8-4 lead.
With two outs and the bases still loaded, Auburn turned to Conner McBride on the mound, marking the Tigers’ third pitching change in one Alabama trip through the lineup. McBride struck out McCants to strand the runners and end the Tide threat in the sixth, but the Tigers couldn’t respond after a double play and strikeout ended the inning quickly.
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Ben Hess put together another long, efficient outing on the mound for Alabama. He tied last week’s career and season-high with 6 ⅔ innings pitched and tossed a career-high 108 pitches. Hess allowed five runs (three earned runs) on 10 hits with nine strikeouts. Hess’ night ended in the bottom of the seventh after he allowed a two-out RBI single, and Alabama turned to Alton Davis II for the rest of the game.
Davis retired Auburn’s batters in order in the eighth, and Miller brought Hodo home with an RBI single for his fifth RBI of the game in the ninth. Petrutz blasted a three-run home run in the next at-bat to make it 12-5. The game then went into a lightning delay after one swing by Justin Lebron.
After a two-and-a-half-hour delay, the ninth inning resumed. Auburn’s Griffin Graves struck out three Alabama batters in a row. Looking to mount a seven-run comeback in the bottom of the ninth, Maners opened with a double and advanced to third after a groundout by Deric Fabian. Stanfield struck out swinging, and a groundout ended the game six hours and 15 minutes after it started.
With the victory, Alabama will head to Hoover as the No. 7 seed in the SEC Tournament.
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