re: Bama Softball 39-19 (10-14) (2023-24)

Alabama softball needed just five innings to get the win Tuesday night over Samford, defeating the Bulldogs 11-2.

After a scoreless first, Alabama (23-5) put three on the board in the second over Samford (6-20) and added three more in the third before the Bulldogs erased the shutout with a two-run home run in the top of the fourth. Now leading 6-2, a five-spot in the bottom of the fourth pushed the game into run-rule territory for the Crimson Tide before Alex Salter retired the side in order in the top of the fifth to close out the game.

Kendal Clark scored three times, going 2-for-2 with a walk, RBI single and RBI double. Bailey Dowling also had a 2-for-2 day at the plate including an RBI single while five other players tallied a hit in the win. Jocelyn Briski (4-0) threw 4.0 innings in the start to earn the win while Salter closed it out with a pair of strikeouts in a 1-2-3 fifth.

From Head Coach Patrick Murphy
"We just got better as the game went on. Samford's pitcher had a good off-speed pitch going, but in the second inning we were patient and had better at bats and put the ball in play. The good part about tonight was that we got to play a lot of people and a lot of people got at-bats. We were able to use two pitchers and I thought our defense was good again. It was a quality midweek game."