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No. 1 Alabama Softball Outlasts Ole Miss, 10-7
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – In a
high scoring affair the top-ranked Alabama softball team downed Ole
Miss, 10-7, Saturday night in front of a national television audience
at Rhoads Stadium. With the win the Crimson Tide stay perfect with a
24-0 overall record and a 5-0 Southeastern Conference mark.
Senior Amanda Locke earned her first win in the circle since April 24, 2010, and provided the punch at the plate with four RBI.
Senior
Jennifer Fenton was a perfect 3-for-3 with two runs and two RBI while
rookie Danae Hays collected two hits and scored twice. Junior Courtney
Conley continued to stay hot at the plate with two hits, two runs and
two RBI.
Junior Lauren Sewell earned the save by pitching 1
1/3 innings of perfect relief. The right-hander entered the game with
two on and two out in the top of the sixth and induced a pop up to end
the threat.
Alabama has now scored eight or more runs 15 times
this season and plated 10 or more seven times. UA earned it 22nd
straight win over Mississippi and has put double-digits on the board
four straight times against the division foe.
After
Mississippi scored a run to lead off the game Alabama promptly seized
the lead with a two run bottom of the inning. Fenton led things off
with a solo shot over the wall in left for her second homer of the
season and then sophomore Kaila Hunt hit a deep sac-fly to right for
her 27th RBI of the season.
The Tide exploded for five runs in
the second inning as Locke supplied the big hit in the frame on a three
run homer over the wall in center. The shot that went into the new
Brickyard seats was her sixth on the season.
UA increased its
lead to 9-2 when it plated two more in the third. Hays started the
scoring when she drove in pinch-runner Keima Davis from second and then
Conley doubled to left-center to score Hays.
After Mississippi
made it interesting with five runs in the top of the fifth to pull
within two, Locke walked with the bases loaded to move the lead to the
final 10-7 score. The RBI was her fourth on the game.
Alabama will close the series with Mississippi in a Sunday matinee that will start at 1:30 p.m. The game will air on WVUAtv.
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