Alabama Softball Hosts Alabama State, Travels to Albertville to Face Jacksonville State

Tuesday, March 29

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

6 p.m. CT

Alabama

Alabama State

Photo by: Kent Gidley

3/28/2022 2:20:00 PM | Softball

The Crimson Tide and Gamecocks will play in the inaugural Sand Mountain Showdown

This Week: Alabama vs. Alabama State/Jacksonville State

Alabama plays a pair of midweek games, starting Tuesday at home against Alabama State before heading to Albertville, Ala., Wednesday for the inaugural Sand Mountain Showdown against Jacksonville State
The Tide is coming off a three-game road sweep at South Carolina last weekend, improving to first place in the SEC at 6-3
Head Coach Patrick Murphy is in his 24th season as head coach at Alabama with a 1,173-324 (.784) record
Alabama returns 11 players from last year's team that made the Women's College World Series semifinals, including a pair of All-Americans in Montana Fouts and Kaylee Tow
The Tide welcomes nine newcomers, including three transfers and six freshmen

Alabama swept its three road games last weekend at South Carolina, mounting a sixth-inning comeback to win game one, 7-5, before posting decisive 10-2 and 6-1 wins in games two and three, respectively
Trailing 5-2 in the top of the sixth, KJ Haney hit a pinch-hit grand slam to push the Tide ahead in the eventual 7-5 win
Kaylee Tow led the team batting 7-for-11 (.636) over the weekend with three multi-hit performances, driving in five RBIs
Jenna Johnson hit 6-for-12 with three runs scored and now leads the league with 13 hits in SEC play
Ashley Prange earned a hit in all three games, pushing her hitting streak to a career-best nine games
Ally Shipman hit an inside-the-park home run in game two against the Gamecocks, the first for any Alabama player in SEC play and just the third away from Rhoads Stadium
Montana Fouts went 2-0 last weekend, tying her career high with 16 strikeouts on Sunday

*Games played through March 27*

Team - Overall

Individual - Overall

Team - SEC Only

Individual - SEC Only

Ally Shipman's inside-the-park home run Saturday at South Carolina was the ninth in program history
Hers was the first to come against an SEC foe and just the third to occur away from Rhoads Stadium

Alabama Inside-the-Park Home Runs

Alabama has scored 40 of its 192 runs in the first inning, which only trails the 41 scored in the fifth for the most runs scored in any inning
The Tide is outscoring its opponents 40-5 in the first inning, the widest margin of any inning
Alabama has hit 11 of its 30 home runs in the first two innings
The Tide has scored in the first inning in 14 games, winning all but one of those contests

Kaylee Tow's double against South Carolina on March 26 was the 44th of her career, tying ninth-place Dani Woods (2005-08) on the Alabama career records list and two away from eighth-place Christy Kyle (1997-2000)
Tow is sixth all-time with 146 career walks, which puts her five away from fifth-place Stephanie VanBrakle (2003-06)
Montana Fouts moved past Jaclyn Traina (2011-14) into sixth all-time with 23 career shutouts, which is just one away from Chrissy Owens (2005-08) and three from Stephanie VanBrakle (2003-06)