LIVE UPDATES: No. 4 Alabama Softball vs. No. 6 Florida
The No. 4 Alabama softball team is on the road for a clash with the No. 6 Florida Gators.
The Crimson Tide is coming off a home series win (2-1) against Georgia. In its last SEC road series, Alabama swept South Carolina.
Alabama starts Montana Fouts in the circle. She’s got a 2.00 ERA with a 15-2 record and has struck out 165 batters this season. Florida will counter with Elizabeth Hightower, 1.84 ERA, 10-2, 81 strikeouts.
Of note, Alabama’s Ally Shipman is second in the league in RBIs, both overall (43) and in SEC play (15). She had five hits and eight RBIs to lead the Crimson Tide in the series win against Georgia last weekend.
The game with Florida is televised by ESPN.
Seventh Inning
Florida
END GAME: Alabama 8, Florida 3
- Florida leaves two runners on base and Alabama gets the win.
Alabama
MID 7th: Alabama 8, Florida 3
- 1-2-3 inning for the Crimson Tide
Sixth Inning
Florida
END 6th: Alabama 8, Florida 3
- Gators go down in order to end the inning. Fouts gets her 9th strikeout of the day
Alabama
MID 6th: Alabama 8, Florida 3
- Goodnight walks to bring in a run to give Alabama an 8-3 lead
- Grill walks and the bases are loaded for Goodnight with two outs
- Dowling out at third on a fielder's choice. Alabama now with runners on first and second with two outs
- Dowling reaches on an error and Tow follows with a single to put runners on first and third with no outs. It's the second hit of the day for Tow
Fifth inning
Florida
END 5th: Alabama 7, Florida 3
- Fouts gets out of the inning without any damage.
- Former Alabama player Skylar Wallace gets a hit to lead off the inning for the Gators.
Alabama
MID 5th: Alabama 7, Florida 3
- Shipman grounds out to end the scoring chance
- Prange with Alabama's third double of the day puts runners on second and third with two out
Fourth inning
Florida
END 4th: Alabama 7, Florida 3
A strikeout ends the damage for Alabama
- A single scores another Gator run to make it a 7-3 game.
- Fouts gets the first out of the inning with a strikeout. She's walked three batters in the inning.
- Walsh doubles and the Gators have their second run of the game. Still no outs. Alabama up 7-2
- Echols with an RBI single gives Florida its first hit and first run. Alabama leads 7-1.
- Another Fouts walk has two runners on base with no outs
- Skylar Wallace walks and steals second. It's her 33rd stolen base of the season
Alabama
MID 4th: Alabama 7, Florida 0
- No third extra-base hit for Lord, who grounds out to end the inning
- An error and a hit by pitch have Alabama runners on base with one out
3rd Inning
Florida
End 3rd: Alabama 7, Florida 0
- Montana Fouts records her fourth and fifth strikeout of the game to get out of the inning. Still no hits for the Gators
- Goelz draws a one-out walk for the Gators' first base runner of the day
Alabama
MID 3rd: Alabama 7, Florida 0
- That's nine hits in 2 2/3 innings for Alabama.
- New pitcher, same result. The hits keep on coming as Kat Grill singles, followed by a Dallis Goodnight RBI single to make it 7-0
- That does it for Florida pitcher Elizabeth Hightower. She's replaced by Haley Pittman.
- Good Lord! Jenna Lord drives in her third and fourth runs of the game with another double to make it 6-0
- Hightower is in trouble in the circle for the Gators. She's already up to 63 pitches
- Tow rips a single to bring in two runs to make it 4-0
- Dowling walks and the bases are loaded with one out.
- Another hit for Shipman. She's got 10 hits in her last eight games.
- Prange singles with one out and reaches second on a wild pitch.
2nd inning
Florida
- Another 1-2-3 inning for Fouts as the Gators are still without a hit
End second: Alabama 2, Florida 0
Alabama
- Shipman singles. She's hit safely in seven straight games.
- Tow gets a one-out single. Two runners on base
- Bloodworth walks after a 12-pitch at-bat. Bases loaded with one out.
- Jenna Lord with a two-run double to put Alabama on the board, 2-0.
Alabama 2, Florida 0
1st
Florida
- A pair of strikeouts by Fouts to start the inning, including former Crimson Tide player Skylar Wallace
- 3 up 3 down for Fouts
End 1st: No score
Alabama
- Goodnight strikes out to start off the game.
- Jenna Johnson with another strikeout
- Prange makes it three straight strikeouts for Gator pitcher Elizabeth Hightower
Starting lineup for Alabama (31-5, 8-4 SEC)
CF Dallis Goodnight
LF Jenna Johnson
3B Ashley Prange
C Ally Shipman
SS Bailey Dowling
1B Kaylee Tow
2B Megan Bloodworth
DP Jenna Lord
RF Kat Grill
P Montana Fouts
Starting lineup for Florida (30-7, 7-5 SEC)
CF Kendra Falby
SS Skylar Wallace
2B Hannah Adams
3B Charla Echols
DP Reagan Walsh
RF Cheyenne Lindsey
C Emily Wilkie
1B Avery Goelz
LF Katie Kistler
P Elizabeth Hightower
