| BSB/SB ðŸ¥Ž Montana Fouts Throws Fourth Career No-Hitter in Doubleheader Split vs. South Carolina


TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – After two weeks on the road, Alabama (26-11, 4-5 SEC) returns to Rhoads Stadium this week hosting South Carolina (26-9, 3-6 SEC) for a three-game series starting Thursday

This Week: #16/14 Alabama vs. South Carolina​

 
Realistic POV next year, imo, with no Fouts, its gonna suck. At this point, she is the last semi frayed thread that keeps us semi - relevant in the softball world.
Yep it’s going to be really ugly next year without Fouts unless Murphy has secret weapons in the transfer portal. Beating a 3-8 in conference team 2-1 Friday in 9, 4-0 earlier today and now trailing 3-1 in the top of the 4th is not a good sign. Maybe it’s just a down year but IMO this has been a continuous pattern for the past 3 years and it’s only going to get worse.
 

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama fifth-year senior Montana Fouts threw the fourth no-hitter of her career and the 44th in program history in game one of Saturday's doubleheader against South Carolina, part of a two-game split as the Crimson Tide won game one, 4-0, to secure the weekend series before falling in game two, 3-1.

Alabama (28-12, 6-6 SEC) scored all four of its runs in game one vs. South Carolina (27-11, 4-8 SEC) in the third inning and Fouts (15-6) and the Tide defense did the rest, as she allowed just three base runners on a pair of walks and hit-by-pitch while striking out 10. The no-hitter was Fouts' second of the season, previously throwing a five-inning perfect game against Longwood on March 5. An Ashley Prange solo home run in the third inning of game two tied it at 1-1 before the Gamecocks regained the lead in the next half-inning with a two-run home run, and the score would ultimately remain at 3-1.

Eight different Alabama players earned a hit across the doubleheader, including two from Ally Shipman. Prange's solo home run improved her team-leading season total to 12, while Larissa Preuitt improved her hitting streak to five games.

From Head Coach Patrick Murphy

"Montana [Fouts] is unreal, especially on the second day that she pitches against a team. Everybody got a day off with rain, but to do what she did the second time in a series is just unreal. It seems like she gets better and better. I don't know what else to say about her. She got all the awards last week and she'll probably get them again this week."

From Montana Fouts

"It was good to win the series and win the first game obviously, but I've still got some stuff to work on. I don't like free bases so some of that was on me. I could have done better than that, but we strung together some hits and played good defense and won the game. We're going to get better from the game three loss. We'll work on some things and move on."
 
Current standings...


CONFCONF %OVERALLOVER %STRK
#5 Tennessee10-2.83330-5.857L2
#8 Georgia11-3.78631-8.795L1
#15 Kentucky7-4.63624-9-1.721W3
#9 Arkansas9-6.60028-11.718W1
#23 Auburn7-5.58329-12.707W1
#19 Texas A&M7-7.50024-13.649W2
#11 LSU6-6.50033-7.825W2
#18 Florida6-6.50028-10.737L1
#14 Alabama6-6.50028-12.700L1
South Carolina4-8.33327-11.711W1
Mississippi State3-7.30023-15.605L5
Missouri3-12.20023-18.561L2
Ole Miss2-9.18222-18.550L2
 
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