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Late Steal, RBI Hit Push No. 14 Alabama Softball Past USC Upstate in Regional Opener

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The Alabama softball team got the big hit it needed to move past USC Upstate in its first NCAA Tournament game.

TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— The breakthrough finally came with two gone in the bottom of the sixth inning. That’s when the Alabama softball team got its first run across in the Tuscaloosa regional, a game-winner against USC Upstate on Friday. The Spartans, champions of the Big South, got two seventh inning hits but failed to plate either in a 1-0 victory for Alabama at Rhoads Stadium.

Beaver was not the starting pitcher in a game that lasted an hour and 32 minutes; freshman Jocelyn Briski was. She carried a no-hitter through 6.1 innings before finally letting one up, a standout performance in her NCAA Tournament debut. Her main goal was to keep her team in the game and get outs however she could. After a single by the Spartans' Celeste Delorenzo, Murphy went to Beaver. Both teams threw a combined 145 pitches: Alabama 70, USC Upstate 75.

Johnson and Dowling each went 2-for-3 off freshman Upstate pitcher Sierra Maness. When it came time to get the timely hit, the Crimson Tide veterans were there to string together a couple big at-bats. Alabama had hit into two double plays before that , but Johnson took a third out of the equation with a steal which Murphy said was by design. Dowling did the rest.

 

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