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
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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.
"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."
"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."
