Alabama Softball Scores 24 Runs in Doubleheader Sweep Over Spring Hill College
10/9/2016 7:29:00 PM | Softball
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama softball was strong in all phases of the game in its second doubleheader of the fall season, defeating Spring Hill College in two games by scores of 12-1 and 12-0 Sunday afternoon at Rhoads Stadium.
In the first inning of game one, freshman Elissa Brown walked and was driven home by fellow freshman Claire Jenkins on an RBI double. Jenkins scored a run of her own in the third inning, coming home on a sacrifice fly by Sydney Booker. With the bases loaded in the fourth inning, Bailey Hemphill broke things open with a grand slam to center field. Leading 6-1 in the fifth, the Tide doubled its run total with a six-run inning. Peyton Grantham got the scoring started with an RBI single and Bailey Hemphill added another with a sacrifice fly before three more singles by Caroline Hardy, Chandler Dare and Booker drove in the remaining four runs as Alabama won by a final score of 12-1. Madi Moore threw the first 4.0 innings with one run allowed and a pair of strikeouts while Alexis Osorio fanned two batters in a scoreless fifth inning.
Alabama scored 12 runs again in the second game of Sunday's doubleheader, shutting out Spring Hill College behind a strong combined effort between Sydney Littlejohn and Osorio with a total of nine strikeouts over 5.0 innings. Mari Cranek scored the first run of the game on a triple by Dare, who also crossed the plate on the same play after an overthrow to make it 2-0. Marisa Runyon drove in Brown on an RBI groundout in the third to make it 3-0 and a sacrifice fly by Cranek in the fourth scored Merris Schroder to make it 4-0. The bats exploded in the fifth inning to the tune of eight runs, the first of which came on an RBI double by Schroder. With runners at second and third, a fly ball by Booker scored Gabby Callaway on the sacrifice fly and moved Schroder to third, who was later driven home on an RBI single by Rachel Bobo. Callaway hit an RBI single and a two-run double by Hardy and sacrifice fly by Hemphill ending the game.
Next up, Alabama faces Alabama State in a doubleheader on Sunday, Oct. 16 starting at 2 p.m. CT at Rhoads Stadium.
