Friday, February 24
Tuscaloosa, Ala.
4 p.m. CT
Alabama
vs
Kennesaw State
Alabama Softball to Play Five Games this Weekend at Easton Bama Bash
2/23/2023 12:56:00 PM | Softball
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The Crimson Tide will celebrate Faith Hensley’s senior day prior to Saturday’s doubleheader
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Seventh-ranked Alabama softball continues its homestand with five games this weekend at the Easton Bama Bash, welcoming Kennesaw State, Southeastern Louisiana and Indiana State to Rhoads Stadium. The Crimson Tide will also be celebrating Faith Hensley's senior day prior to Saturday's games.
This Week: Easton Bama Bash (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
- Video: SEC Network+ (Streaming)
- Radio: 97.5 FM | nick975.com
- Friday, Feb. 24 vs. Kennesaw State – 4 p.m. CT
- Friday, Feb. 24 vs. Southeastern Louisiana – 6:30 p.m. CT
- Saturday, Feb. 25 vs. Indiana State – 11 a.m. CT
- Saturday, Feb. 25 vs. Southeastern Louisiana – 1:30 p.m. CT
- Sunday, Feb. 26 vs. Kennesaw State – 1 p.m. CT
Scouting Alabama
- Alabama continues its homestand this weekend, hosting Kennesaw State, Southeastern Louisiana and Indiana State for five games at the Easton Bama Bash
- The Crimson Tide will play its next 12 games at home before hitting the road for six straight starting on Wednesday, March 8 at UAB
- Wednesday's win over Samford marked head coach Patrick Murphy's 1,200th at Alabama, becoming just the ninth coach in NCAA history to earn 1,200 wins entirely at one Division-I institution
- The Tide moved back into the top 10 in this week's national polls, coming in at No. 6 in both the D1 Softball and Softball America polls and No. 7 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball rankings
- Ally Shipman leads the team with a .440 batting average (11-for-25) with Ashley Prange next up at .379 (11-for-27), which includes a team-leading four home runs and 11 RBIs
- Murphy is in his 25th season as head coach at Alabama with a 1,200-335 (.782) record
- Alabama returns 11 players from last year's team, including All-SEC honorees Montana Fouts, Ashley Prange, Ally Shipman and Bailey Dowling, while also welcoming five freshmen and three transfers
Inside the Series
- Overall vs. Kennesaw State: 1-0
- In Tuscaloosa: 0-0 | In Kennesaw: 0-0 | At Neutral Sites: 1-0
- Current Streak: Alabama +1
- Last Meeting: Feb. 7, 2014 - W, 6-0 - Troy, Ala.
- Overall vs. Southeastern Louisiana: 1-0
- In Tuscaloosa: 0-0 | In Hammond: 0-0 | At Neutral Sites: 1-0
- Current Streak: Alabama +1
- Last Meeting: Feb. 25, 2022 - W, 5-0 - Youngsville, La.
- Overall vs. Indiana State: 1-0
- In Tuscaloosa: 1-0 | In Terre Haute: 0-0 | At Neutral Sites: 0-0
- Current Streak: Alabama +1
- Last Meeting: Feb. 24, 2007 - W, 3-1 - Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Last Time Out: vs. Samford
- Alabama earned a hard-fought comeback victory Wednesday night against Samford, rallying from a 2-0 deficit to score three unanswered and come away with the 3-2 victory
- After falling behind 2-0 in the fourth, an RBI double from Bailey Dowling scratched a run across for the Tide in the bottom half of the inning
- With two on and nobody out in the sixth, Ally Shipman stepped in to pinch hit and dropped a single into right to drive in the tying run from second
- Later with two on and two out, Kenleigh Cahalan drove a single up the middle to drive in the go-ahead run and extend her hitting streak to nine games
- Jaala Torrence earned the win in relief, throwing 3.0 hitless shutout innings
- Dowling and Kristen White each went 2-for-3 at the plate with five other players also earning a hit
Murphy Earns 1200th Win at Alabama
- With a win Wednesday against Samford, Alabama head coach Patrick Murphy earned his 1,200th win at the helm of the Crimson Tide
- Including his one year as the interim head coach at Northwest Missouri State, Murphy has 1,228 wins across all levels
- Seventeen other head coaches have surpassed the 1,200 win mark with 11 doing so entirely at the Division I level
- Current and former SEC coaches on the 1,200 win list include Ralph Weekly (Tennessee), Jo Evans (Texas A&M) and Karen Weekly (Tennessee), though Murphy is the only one with over 1,000 wins entirely at a Southeastern Conference program
- Murphy is the ninth coach to earn 1,200 wins at one Division 1 program
1,200 wins at One Division 1 School
- Carol Hutchins - 1,684 - Michigan (1985-2022)
- Mike Candrea - 1,674 - Arizona (1986-2021)
- Patty Gasso - 1,395 - Oklahoma (1995-pres.)
- Diane Ninemire - 1,355 - California (1988-2020)
- Eugene Lenti - 1,327 - DePaul (1980-97, 1990-2018)
- Margie Wright - 1,294 - Fresno State (1987-2012)
- Donna Papa - 1,276 - North Carolina (1986-2020)
- Margo F. Jonker - 1,268 - Central Michigan (1980-2019)
- Patrick Murphy - 1,200 - Alabama (1999-pres.)
Fire Freshman Start for Cahalan
- Kenleigh Cahalan is off to a hot start during her freshman campaign, earning a hit in each of Alabama's first nine games
- The nine-game hitting streak is the second-longest hit streak of any Crimson Tide freshman to start their career, only bested by Haylie McCleney's 12-game streak to start her 2013 debut campaign
- Only 10 other players have posted a hitting streak of at least nine games at any point during their freshman season, with the last to do so before Cahalan being Reagan Dykes in 2016 with an 11-game hit streak
Longest Hitting Streaks by Alabama Freshmen to Start Career
- Haylie McCleney - 12 Games (2013)
- Kenleigh Cahalan - 9 Games (2023)
- Kelly Kretschman - 6 Games (1998)
- Demi Turner - 6 Games (2015)
Fouts Career Record Watch
- With 79 career wins, Montana Fouts is tied for fifth all-time at Alabama with Alexis Osorio (2015-18), with Stephanie VanBrakle (2003-06) as the next milestone in fourth place with 97 wins
- Fouts also has 94 career starts, putting her six shy of becoming the sixth player in program history to make 100 career starts
- Her 909 career strikeouts rank sixth all-time, with Jaclyn Traina (2011-14) as the next highest at 976 in fifth place
- If Fouts breaks 1,000 career strikeouts, she would become the fifth player in program history to do so and the first since Osorio
Sweet Home Alabama
- Alabama sports a 687-126 (.845) all-time record at home, including a 651-110 (.855) mark under head coach Patrick Murphy and a 632-106 (.856) record at Rhoads Stadium, the Tide's home field since 2000
- Since Rhoads Stadium opened in 2000, Alabama has won at least 25 home games in 19 of its 22 previous years there
Up Next: vs. Southern Miss (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
- Wednesday, March 1 - 6 p.m. CT
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