re: Bama Softball 45-22 (16-11) (2022-23)

This Week: #16/16 Alabama (34-15, 10-8 SEC) vs. #13/14 LSU (37-11, 10-8 SEC)

Tuscaloosa, Ala. – Rhoads Stadium
Friday, April 21 – 6 p.m. CT – SEC Network+ (streaming)
Saturday, April 22 – 1 p.m. CT – ESPN2
Sunday, April 23 – 11:30 a.m. CT - ESPN
Radio: The Crimson Tide Sports Network at 97.5 FM in Tuscaloosa | nick975.com | Varsity App

Last Home Series Softball vs #13/14 LSU
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
6 p.m. CT
97.5 FM

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Great turnout for the game tonight. Crowd got a little rowdy too. Big win for the ladies. Really need another one this weekend (two more would be extra nice). Preuitt (in the picture) had a bad swing that resulted in essentially a bunt. Catcher overthrew first base bad and Preuitt wound up scoring. It was an error instead of an inside the park home run but it was thrilling to watch nonetheless.

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Preuitt’s run around the bases

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Alabama softball opened its weekend series Friday night against LSU with a 4-0 shutout at Rhoads Stadium.

Alabama (35-15, 11-8 SEC) got out of an early threat in the top of the first as LSU (37-12, 10-9 SEC) started the inning with two singles before a double play and a caught stealing got the Crimson Tide out of the frame unscathed. Kenleigh Cahalan put the Crimson Tide ahead in the bottom half of the inning with a two-run moonshot to right. With two out in the bottom of the second, Larissa Preuitt slapped a single about five feet down the third base line and a throwing error on the play went all the way into the right field corner, allowing her to come all the way home and make it 3-0.

With two on and two out in the bottom of the third, Marlie Giles sent a single up the middle to drive in Kristen White and make it 4-0. With the score the same in the bottom of the sixth, Alabama looked to tack on some insurance with two in scoring position and one out but ultimately could not add to its four-run lead. The lead proved enough for Montana Fouts (19-8) and the Tide defense, with a popup and back-to-back strikeouts capping the shutout.

Four of Alabama's seven hits came from the bottom third of the order, including a 2-for-3 day from Preuitt in the eight spot. Cahalan's home rune extended her current hitting streak to five games, while Jenna Johnson increased her reached-base streak to six. Fouts allowed just five hits, all singles, in the complete-game shutout, her sixth in SEC play.

From Head Coach Patrick Murphy
"I have to give it up to the fans. It was unbelievable to have this many people over the course of the entire season and to top it off with the 100,000th fan at the Rhoads house was super cool. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it, the team appreciates it and the entire staff appreciates it. It's just awesome for women's sports. With this being the 50th anniversary of Title IX, it shows that the best softball fans in the country are right here in Tuscaloosa."

Game 2 (aka the non Montana game). It was over in the first inning. Bailey Dowling with a solo home run was the only scoring Bama could muster.

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That's downright pitiful.

Only 2 hits /w 2 errors!! Gots to be more careful.

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Only 2 hits /w 2 errors!! Gots to be more careful.

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They got to be better on offense and have more than 1 pitcher

Awesome crowd again today. Any win is a good one. Just ask the baseball team. Might squeak out a regional hosting spot with this series win - need to take care of business on the road next week.


Alabama softball clinched the weekend series over LSU with a 2-0 shutout Sunday afternoon at Rhoads Stadium.

Alabama (36-16, 12-9 SEC) has now won five-straight SEC series over LSU (38-13, 11-10 SEC) in Tuscaloosa, stretching back to 2008. The Crimson Tide took the early lead Sunday over the Tigers in the bottom of the first courtesy of a solo home run from Ashley Prange. She drove in another run in the bottom of the third with an RBI groundout to make it 2-0 and the two-run lead proved enough for Montana Fouts (20-8) and the Alabama defense as LSU was held out of the run column for the second time this weekend.

The complete-game shutout was Fouts' second of the weekend, fanning nine batters in Sunday's win with just two hits and one walk allowed. The nine strikeouts improve her season total to 277, which ranks 10th on the Alabama single-season records. Her single-season high of 349 from 2021 ranks third, making Fouts the fourth Tide pitcher to have two or more seasons ranked in the top 10. Prange's home run was her team-leading 13th of the season, and the game was her team-leading 11th multi-RBI game of the season.

From Head Coach Patrick Murphy
"Montana [Fouts] just knows how to get into the zone. We all saw it her face that it was going to be hard to beat her. It is fun to watch. I'm so glad that we had 12,000 people out here this weekend and to shut out a team twice like LSU is really hard to do. It shows a lot about Montana, but also shows a lot about [Ally] Shipman and Lance [McMahon] and how great of a job they do. We knew that it was going to be an adjustment with a new pitching coach; Stephanie [Van Brakle-Prothro] was here for 11 years and they were used to her and the game she called. Sometimes it takes a little time for a coach and the pitching staff to get used to each other. Overall, it was so much fun to watch today, Ashley [Prange] with two big RBIs and a home run was great."

Need a sweep this weekend

Montana Fouts Ties Record with Fourth SEC Softball Pitcher of the Week Award of the Season

The four awards are tied for the most in a single season for any Alabama pitcher

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – For the fourth time this season, Alabama fifth-year senior Montana Fouts earned weekly accolades from the Southeastern Conference, sharing SEC Softball Co-Pitcher of the Week honors.

The weekly award is Fouts' fourth this season, tying her season-best total from 2021 which is also tied with Stephanie VanBrakle (2006) for the most Pitcher of the Week awards in a single season for any Crimson Tide pitcher. Overall, it is Fouts' 17th weekly award of her career, including four Freshman of the Week honors in 2019 and 12 previous Pitcher of the Week awards. Fouts won a combined five awards in 2019, earning four Freshman of the Week accolades and one Pitcher. Alabama pitchers have now won a combined 54 SEC Pitcher of the Week awards all-time.

The Grayson, Ky, native helped guide Alabama to a series win over then-No. 13 LSU last weekend with a pair of complete-game shutouts. She held the Tigers to just seven hits, all singles, and two walks over 14.0 innings pitched while striking out 15. That improved her season total to 277 strikeouts, which ranks 10th in UA single-season history, as does her nine shutouts which is only one shy of her personal single-season best from 2021.