Report: Two Alabama Softball Players Enter Transfer Portal

Simply at some point after Alabama’s early exit from the NCAA Event, two Crimson Tide gamers have entered the switch portal. 

As reported by Additional Inning Softball, junior catcher Abby Doerr and freshman utility participant Jenna Lord put their names within the portal Monday. 

Lord began seeing extra taking part in time and earned a spot within the beginning lineup within the second half of the season. Doerr began out the season because the began at designated participant, however that place grew to become a revolving door because the season went on. 

On the season, Lord performed in 45 video games with 30 begins. She batted .289 with two residence runs and was seventh on the workforce with 19 RBIs. Lord had the important thing hit within the first elimination recreation towards Stanford Sunday afternoon that first received Alabama on the board. She additionally had a success within the backside of the seventh inning within the winner take all recreation with Alabama trailing 6-0.

“That was that was primetime Jenna Lord, getting the hit within the final inning,” Alabama coach Patrick Murphy stated within the postgame press convention. “She’s completed that 5 instances this 12 months. I imply, she’s a gamer.”

Lord noticed taking part in time at second base and proper area with just a few begins because the designated participant. She may have three years of eligibility left. 

Doerr arrived in Tuscaloosa as an early enrollee within the spring of 2020 as a highly-touted catcher recruit out of Oregon with Bailey Hemphill in her senior season. Due to the COVID waiver, Hemphill performed a fifth 12 months in 2021, after which in 2022 Alabama received catcher Ally Shipman out of the switch portal. 

The junior catcher performed in 43 video games this season with 35 begins both at catcher or because the designated hitter. Doerr hit .227 this season with one residence run and 17 RBIs. In 2021, she solely performed in 26 video games with 13 begins. One of many highlights of Doerr’s profession at Alabama was a two-run pinch hit residence run within the Ladies’s School World Sequence towards Arizona. 

Alabama was eradicated from the Regional spherical of the NCAA Event by Stanford Sunday afternoon in a 6-0 loss. 

Abby Doerr

Jenna Lord