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Montana Fouts Strikes Out a Career-Best 16 in 4-0 Shutout Over Mississippi State - Alabama Athletics
Second-ranked Alabama softball continued its shutout streak Wednesday night at Rhoads Stadium, as Montana Fouts struck out a career-best 16 batters in a...
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Second-ranked Alabama softball continued its shutout streak Wednesday night at Rhoads Stadium, as Montana Fouts struck out a career-best 16 batters in a 4-0 win over Mississippi State.
Alabama (15-0) has now thrown 28.0 consecutive shutout innings, not allowing a run since the seventh inning against Memphis on Feb. 26. Montana Fouts (7-0) made quick work of the potent Mississippi State (8-5) lineup, striking out 16 of the 25 batters she faced.
The 16 strikeouts are a new career high for the Grayson, Ky., native and are the most in a single game for the Crimson Tide since Alexis Osorio tied the NCAA record with 21 in a seven-inning game on March 10, 2018.
Alexis Mack drove in two of the team's four runs, marking her fourth multi-RBI game of the season. Two fielding errors on the same play allowed the first two Tide runs to cross, with subsequent runs coming on a Bailey Dowling sacrifice fly and an RBI single from Mack.
FROM HEAD COACH PATRICK MURPHY
"It was a fun midweek game against a quality opponent. Obviously, the star of the show was Montana Fouts. That was probably one of her best performances of her career. Mississippi State is a real tough lineup. You have to make real good pitches against all of them. For Montana to do what she did with velocity, location and movement made for a real good outing."
HIGHLIGHTS
- Montana Fouts threw a career-high 16 strikeouts, the most in a single game for Alabama since Alexis Osorio tied the NCAA record in a seven-inning game with 21 on March 10, 2018
- Fouts now has double-digit strikeouts in five of her seven starts this season
- Tide pitching has thrown 28 straight scoreless innings since allowing a seventh-inning run against Memphis on Feb. 26
- Wednesday's game was Alexis Mack's fourth multi-RBI game of the season
- B3 | Two errors on the same play allowed a pair of runs to score for the Tide (2-0, 0 Out)
- B3 | Bailey Dowling drove in Alexis Mack from third on a sacrifice fly (3-0, 1 Out)
- B4 | An Alexis Mack single through the left side drove in Savannah Woodard (4-0, 2 Out)
- Friday, March 5 vs. Kent State (DH) – 4 p.m. CT
- Saturday, March 6 vs. UNI (DH) – 11 a.m. CT
- Sunday, March 7 vs. South Alabama – 4 p.m. CT (SEC Network)
