⚾ 🥎 🥎 Bama opens SEC play with series win over Ole Miss. The sweep? Sunday at 1 CT on SECN+

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Location: Oxford, Miss. Venue: Ole Miss Softball Stadium Friday, March 6 – BAMA 5-3 Friday, March 6 – BAMA 13-2 Sunday, March 8 – 1 p.m. CT	Live Stats Listen (Catfish 100.1 FM) The Varsity Network Watch (SEC Network+ Streaming) Friday Sunday

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Lauren Johnson tattooed one for a 2 run HR in the 2nd... Ole Miss is lucky they only trail by 2 thus far. Briski got the start for UA...

 

[TerryP]

Lauren Johnson tattooed one for a 2 run HR in the 2nd... Ole Miss is lucky they only trail by 2 thus far. Briski got the start for UA...

2 run, 2nd, with 2 strikes and 2 outs ... made me laugh a bit.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Briski gave up a 2 run HR in the 2nd, but Brooke Wells answered it in the 3rd with a solo shot. Bama up 3-2, B3.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Bama got the win, 5-3, which on the road in the SEC is always nice. Another timely hit or two and it wouldn't have been a close game... Bama left 9 on base, and that's not factoring in 2 bases loaded DP's they hit into. They had a couple of just silly mental errors too that cost them an out or 2 (including one that would have prevented one of the bases loaded DP's). But they did enough and Wells led them with a 3-3 (plus a walk) day. In the circle, Briski wasn't as sharp as she has been up to this point... she wasn't as pinpoint with her pitches and left a couple over the plate that Ole Miss made her pay for. But the Bama defense helped her at times and she managed to get it done. She finished with the CG win, going 7 innings, giving up 3 runs on 5 hits, 7 K's and 2 walks.

Bama plays Ole Miss in game 2 starting in about 30 minutes...

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Game 2....

The Tide only has 2 hits, but they've made the most of it. They lead Ole Miss 6-0, B2. Ana Roman had the big hit, a 3 run shot. Moten in the circle...

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

UA now up 9-0, B3.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Bama wins game 2, 13-2. UA looked a bit sharper in this one. Ana Roman and Ambry Taylor both hit HR's. Brooke Wells went 6 for 6 with 2 walks in the 2 games. Moten and Pallozzi combined to limit Ole Miss to 2 runs in 6 innings. Game 3 will be on Sunday, Bama will go for the sweep...

 

[Rsedge72]

Ole miss’s pitching is bad!!! They’re in for a loooooong season…
They’re wild enough to screw up a good hitting team for a game or 2 but that’s about it.

 

[TerryP]

I might suggest clicking the the user here and you'll find it explains a few things.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Bama up 2-0, B5. Briski looking good so far...

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Bama wins it 2-1 and completes the sweep. Any series win in the SEC is big, any sweep, on the road, is huge. The Bama bats were a little bit sluggish today, and UA left 11 on base (which was almost costly). They just never got that one big hit... but, they did enough. Briski was great for 6 innings and then things got squirrely in the 9th. She gave up 3 singles (including an infield squibber) and a run. WIth 2 outs and 2 on, Moten was brought in to close it out and she did, getting the strikeout to end it.

Next up for Bama... a midweek vs. Samford and a 3 game series at home against Arkansas.

 

[TerryP]

Next up for Bama... a midweek vs. Samford and a 3 game series at home against Arkansas.

...just took the UGA series, at home, against a top 15 team.

 

[BamaFan334]

Absolutely a great thing to sweep on the road, anywhere. Not every game can be an offensive demolition. Gotta win the close ones and that's what they did. Keep working hard ladies. So far, seems like a more rounded team that the last few years, and that's exciting.