SEC Tournament Game 9 Recap: Tennessee 1, Alabama 0
5/15/2004 12:00:00 AM | Softball
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TUSCALOOSA, ALA - Tennessee pitching ace Monica Abbott set an NCAA record for wins by a freshman on the way to bouncing Alabama from the Southeastern Conference Softball Championships held at the Alabama Softball Complex this week, picking up a 1-0 win.
Abbott, who retired 18 batters in a row before hitting UA's Capper Reed in the seventh inning, went to 43-7 on the season while senior Erin Wright fell to 13-7. The Lady Vols scored on run in the fifth inning and relied on stellar pitching to hang on. The Tide got only one hit on the day.
""That was a big win for us against a great team and a great program," Tennessee co-head coach said. "We are the new kids on the block as far as being an SEC power. I'm not saying we are there yet, but we play a lot of freshman and sophomores and that is where the tenseness comes from. I told the girls that they don't have anything to prove out there."
Tennessee will face No. 3 seed Georgia at 5 p.m. today while No. 1 seed LSU will face the winner of today's next game, Auburn and Mississippi State, at 7:30 p.m.
