2017 Alabama Softball

Junior pitcher Alexis Osorio is one of 34 finalists for this year’s USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year award, the organization announced Wednesday. Osorio, a Riverside, Calif., native, leads the SEC and is ranked fourth nationally with 217 strikeouts so far this season, an average of 1 ...

Alabama softball was efficient in its 8-0 win Tuesday over UAB, needing just 90 minutes to score eight runs, including a catcher’s interference call to end it in the bottom of the fifth. “I’ve never seen that before,” UA Head Coach Patrick Murphy said on the game-ending catcher’s interference call ...

A series win over then-eighth ranked LSU in Tuscaloosa helped push Alabama softball back into the national top 10 this week, placing ninth in the USA Today/NFCA poll and 10th in the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll. Last week, the Crimson Tide won a midweek contest against Lipscomb before taking two out of three games against the Tigers in Tuscaloosa ...

Facing a crucial home series, Patrick Murphy’s Alabama Crimson Tide defeated LSU 3-0 on Friday, lost 1-0 Saturday night but rebounded for 4-2 on Sunday to take the series. Pitching Dominates During the three-game series, both LSU and Alabama struggled to generate runs...

A key two-run double by Marisa Runyon was the difference-maker in a tightly-contested rubber match Sunday at Rhoads Stadium between Alabama and LSU, with the Crimson Tide coming out on top, 4-2, to win the weekend series. Runyon’s two-run double in the bottom of the fifth broke a 2-2 tie and gives her six RBIs in the last five games, earning at least one hit in four of those five games ... Read Mo

Alabama softball dropped a tightly-contested game to LSU Saturday at Rhoads Stadium, falling 1-0 to even the weekend series. Alabama (34-7, 9-5 SEC) was held scoreless on just three hits while LSU (32-8, 8-3 SEC) tallied five hits, driving in the lone run of the game in the top of the fifth ...

Alabama softball opened its weekend series against LSU with a 3-0 shutout Friday night at Rhoads Stadium. The win is the 500th all-time at the ballpark, the home of the Crimson Tide since 2000. Alabama (34-6, 9-4 SEC) held LSU (31-8, 7-3 SEC) hitless through 5 ...

One of Alabama’s most important weekends of the season awaits as the LSU Tigers arrive into Tuscaloosa for a huge three-game series begins Friday night. Status of Demi Turner A veteran presence on Alabama’s roster, junior infielder Demi Turner missed the past two games after taking a throw in the face late in Saturday’s win last week at Missouri...

Alabama softball traveled north to Florence, Ala., for Wednesday’s neutral-site contest against Lipscomb at the Florence Sportsplex. The teams battled blustery conditions but the Crimson Tide ultimately came out on top, 5-0. Alabama (33-6) scored two runs in the first inning and added some insurance in the sixth to post five runs on nine hits, including two-hit performances by Marisa Runyon, Peyto

A series loss on the road dropped Alabama softball out of this week’s top 10 in the national rankings, coming in at No. 11 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball poll and No. 12 in the USA Today/NFCA poll. Last week, the Crimson Tide won a midweek contest against Kent State before falling in two of its three games against SEC foe Missouri on the road ...