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By Hannah Saad

Baseball loses Vanderbilt series

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor April 20, 2019

The long ball killed Alabama baseball’s chance to tie its series against Vanderbilt, as the Commodores hit five home runs in their 13-5 win. Vanderbilt started its scoring onslaught in the second...

By Hannah Saad

Baseball drops third game against South Carolina

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor April 6, 2019
“It’s the first time that we’ve used him on back-to-back days, and we extended him a little bit yesterday,” coach Brad Bohannon said. “Jeremy is a grown man… He wants the ball every single day. He just wasn’t sharp.”
Baseball sweeps Friday doubleheader

Baseball sweeps Friday doubleheader

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor April 5, 2019
It had been over a year, but Alabama baseball has won its first SEC series of the year by sweeping South Carolina in a Friday doubleheader.Alabama dominated in game one’s 9-0 win with Sam Finnerty’s best career performance and early offense, while solid pitching led to a 4-1 win in game two.
By Hannah Saad

Troy defeats baseball in first mid-week matchup

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor April 2, 2019
Most of the damage was done by the end of the third inning in Alabama’s 8-4 loss to Troy. Alabama starter Connor Shamblin was tagged with his first career loss, while Sadler Goodwin finished with the win.Alabama’s first two pitchers, Shamblin and Wil Freeman, struggled to find consistency in their 2 1/3 innings of work.
By Hannah Stone

Baseball loses series to Florida

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor March 30, 2019
"It was a really tough night for us,” Alabama head coach Brad Bohannon said in a press release. “To Florida’s credit, they really hit a lot of balls hard – 16 hits and five home runs. They’re starting to look like the team that everyone anticipated going into the season. When you’re facing a really talented team, you have to get ahead in the count; keep the ball down and out of the middle of the plate; and you have to be able to throw some secondary stuff for a strike; and we didn’t do enough of that tonight.”
By Hannah Stone

Baseball drops second SEC series of year

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor March 25, 2019
Alabama baseball fell to Arkansas on Sunday, losing its seventh SEC series in a row dating back to last year.Overall, the Razorbacks outscored the Crimson Tide 22-15. The series was a bookend for the Crimson Tide, as it lost the Friday game 12-3 and Sunday’s game 10-2, but won 10-0 Saturday.
By Hannah Stone

Baseball ties weekend series on Saturday

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor March 23, 2019
After getting trounced in Friday night’s game, Alabama baseball defeated No. 9 Arkansas 10-0. It was the first time since April 6, 2013 that the Crimson Tide shut out the Razorbacks.“We beat a very good team,” coach Brad Bohannon said. “Arkansas is a very good and very worthy of their ranking… Really, really pleased with the effort and excited to come to the park tomorrow with a chance to win a series against a top-10 team with a pretty fresh bullpen.”
By Hannah Saad

Sam Praytor to miss rest of season

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor March 22, 2019
After Alabama's 12-3 loss to Arkansas on Friday, coach Brad Bohannon announced sophomore catcher Sam Praytor will miss the rest of the season with a season-ending injury.
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Ras makes big strides early in freshman season

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor March 21, 2019
In Alabama’s opening series against Presbyterian College, coach Brad Bohannon set up his starting pitching rotation in a way that he had never done at Auburn or Kentucky, and Alabama hasn’t done since 2012: he started two freshmen on opening weekend.
By Hannah Stone

Baseball routs Maine in midweek matchup

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor March 19, 2019
“I saw that the ball kept carrying and figured he [the center fielder] wasn’t going to catch it, so I started running harder around second,” freshman T.J. Reeves said. “I saw coach [Zulli] rolling me around third, and I just went with it.”
By Hannah Saad

Explosive third inning leads to baseball win

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor February 26, 2019
In the first two innings of Alabama baseball’s 8-0 win against North Alabama, the Crimson Tide had chances to break a scoreless tie but failed to score. It had bases loaded in the first inning, while runners on the corners in the second.That trend didn’t continue in the third.
By Joe Will Field

Baseball defeats Ball State in game one

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor February 22, 2019
Early offense and dominate pitching earned Alabama baseball its fourth win on the season, as it defeated Ball State 7-1.It started on the mound with senior Sam Finnerty. He controlled the Cardinals for all seven innings, allowing just three hits and no runs. He threw just 68 pitches in a shortened start because of a 25-minute weather delay.
By Hannah Saad

Seven runs in second leads to baseball win

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor February 18, 2019
It started on the first pitch an Alabama batter saw. Center fielder Joe Breaux drilled the pitch to right field, which landed in the stands for his third career home run. It was one of two runs scored in the inning, leading to a 13-2 win.
By Hannah Saad

Baseball splits double header, wins series

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor February 16, 2019
Just as it did two years ago when Presbyterian came to Tuscaloosa, Alabama baseball claimed the series, winning two of the three games. Because of incoming weather, the two played a double header on Saturday. The Blue Hose won the first game 4-1, while the Crimson Tide claimed the series with a 9-4 win in the latter.
By Hannah Saad

Baseball wins season opener

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor February 15, 2019
Two years ago, Alabama baseball opened its season with Presbyterian. That season opener finished in a 4-3 win for the Crimson Tide. It took Alabama till the bottom of the second to surpass that run total in its 7-2 win to open the 2019 season. Catcher Sam Praytor started the scoring in the bottom of the first inning, when he launched a 3-2 fastball over the left field fence for a two-run home run.
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Communication key to Carter’s leadership

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor January 10, 2019
With Alabama’s lineage, playing defensive back comes with a lot of expectations, especially in the nickel corner spot: Star. With last year’s Star, Minkah Fitzpatrick, getting drafted in the top 10 of the NFL Draft, the spot came with a lot of expectations, but Shyheim Carter was ready for that pressure.
By Hannah Saad

Alabama blown out in College Football Playoff National Championship

Cody Estremera and James Ogletree January 7, 2019
Alabama’s once-transcendent offense and once-reliable defense both failed to show up to Monday night’s College Football Playoff National Championship Game. Five drives inside Clemson’s 22-yard line netted one touchdown and a field goal, and the defense’s penalties and coverage errors doomed a chance at coach Nick Saban’s seventh national championship.
By Grant Nicholls

Xavier McKinney develops mentally in second season

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor January 7, 2019
“He’s doing what he got to do,” middle linebacker Dylan Moses said. “He's balling, you know what I'm saying. That just shows his growth from last year to this year. He really did put in a lot of work over the summer, throughout fall camp. Feel like everything he's getting right now, he deserves it.”
By Grant Nicholls

Learning plays takes time

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor January 6, 2019
The process of learning the playbook for Alabama takes around a year for the players to feel comfortable, sometimes a little longer.  It took Moses about 11 months to memorize all of the plays. It took Xavier McKinney an entire year. It was about a year and a half for Mack Wilson.
By Hannah Saad

Early scoring propels Alabama to win against Oklahoma

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor December 30, 2018
It started the game with a run/pass option (where the quarterback can either hand the ball off to the running back or keep it and throw it). Quarterback Tua Tagovailoa kept the ball, faking a handoff to senior back Damien Harris. He looked up and spotted receiver DeVonta Smith running a slant route. Tagovailoa hit Smith in stride and Smith sprinted 50 yards before being knocked out to the ground at the Oklahoma 25-yard line.
By Hannah Saad

Jalen Hurts reaps rewards by staying at Alabama

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor December 29, 2018
“Jalen is going to be a more successful person in his life because of what he went through, not winning 26 games, but what he went through this year trying to be the kind of person who had to support other people after he was a star player.”
By Grant Nicholls

Surtain makes easy transition from high school to No. 1 Alabama

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor December 27, 2018
Replenishing the secondary was the most important part of Alabama’s 2018 recruiting class. It lost every member of the starting secondary from the team that won the national championship. Of the 21 players to come in, five played in the secondary, but the player that drew the most attention from the moment he signed with the Crimson Tide was Patrick Surtain II.
By Grant Nicholls

Alabama defense slows Georgia in fourth quarter

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor December 1, 2018
First-and-10 with three seconds left. This is what the game came down to between Alabama and Georgia. The Bulldogs had dominated the first three quarters, but the Crimson Tide had mounted a comeback and had taken the lead. On Alabama’s 39-yard line, sophomore quarterback Jake Fromm took the snap and lofted a pass into the back right corner of Alabama’s end zone towards a hoard of Alabama and Georgia players.
By Grant Nicholls

Stout Alabama defense holds Auburn to 21 points in Iron Bowl win

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor November 24, 2018
Alabama limited Auburn to 283 yards of total offense on 75 plays, for an average of 3.7 yards a play. It was the 17th time since the 2017 season that an Alabama opponent was held under 300 yards. Outside the three drives that resulted in touchdowns, the Tigers finished with 127 yards.
CW/ Hannah Saad

Dynamic triple option travels to Bryant-Denny

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor November 15, 2018
The last time Alabama faced the triple option was in its 2011 win over Georgia Southern. In that game, the Alabama defense, which had been giving up just 51.9 yards a game, was shredded for 302 rushing yards.
By Hannah Saad

Offense limited in win over Mississippi State

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor November 10, 2018
After being stopped from scoring a touchdown on the first drive of the game last week against LSU, No. 1 Alabama marched down the field, running the ball seven times, before running back Damien Harris scooted into the end zone from one yard out. Harris’s touchdown was one of Alabama’s three total touchdowns in its 24-0 win over Mississippi State.
By Hannah Saad

Alabama defense handles No. 3 LSU

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor November 4, 2018
With 3:41 left in the game and on the Alabama 13, LSU quarterback Joe Burrow dropped back and threw a pass over the middle of the field towards the back of the end zone. Instead of hitting receiver Jonathan Giles, he found linebacker Mack Wilson, completing the 29-0 shutout against No, 3 LSU.
By Hannah Saad

Offense gains over 500 yards in win over Tennessee

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor October 20, 2018
On the second play after the defense forced a fumble and recovered the ball inside the Tennessee five-yard line, running back Josh Jacobs took the handoff from quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, made a small cut and split a pair of Tennessee defenders for a three-yard touchdown.
By Hannah Saad

Alabama’s defense slows Missouri passing game in win

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor October 13, 2018
Early in the second quarter, defensive end Isaiah Buggs stormed his way through the offensive line and got to Missouri quarterback Drew Lock for an 18-yard sack. As Lock went down, Buggs stripped him of the ball, which Anfernee Jennings recovered, setting up Alabama inside Missouri’s red zone.
CW/ Hannah Saad

Tua becomes fan favorite in starting season

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor October 4, 2018
When quarterback Tua Tagovailoa trotted out onto Camping World Stadium’s field, the Alabama fan base went crazy. It answered the question Alabama fans had been asking since midway through last season: Tagovailoa was the starting quarterback.
CW/ Hannah Saad

Thompson and McKinney lock down safety spots

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor September 20, 2018
Before the season started, Alabama’s safety spots were held by two players whose main roles were on special teams and on second-string defense. Now Deionte Thompson and Xavier McKinney have shown they are proven SEC-caliber safeties.
Photo by Hannah Saad

Defense shuts down Ole Miss passing game

Cody Estremera, Sports Editor September 15, 2018

OXFORD— Alabama’s defense started as poorly as it could have against Ole Miss. It allowed a touchdown on the first play of the game for the first time since 2011. From that point onward, the Crimson...

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Jacobs returns from injury-plagued 2017 season

Cody Estremera, Sports Desk Editor September 6, 2018
Louisville started to gain momentum midway through the third quarter after Jawon Pass found tight end Kemari Averett in the back of the Alabama end zone. After an unsportsmanlike conduct call, Louisville was forced to kick off from its own 25-yard line.
Photo by Hannah Saad

A preview of Alabama football’s season opener

Cody Estremera, Sports Desk Editor August 30, 2018
No. 1 Alabama looks to defend last year’s national championship starting in Orlando against an experienced Louisville team. The Cardinals lost four players to the NFL draft, including Heisman winner Lamar Jackson and first-round pick Jaire Alexander. I talked with Matt Bradshaw, the sports editor of the Louisville student paper, The Louisville Cardinal, to get a different look at the matchup.
Baseball holds on to defeat Troy

Baseball holds on to defeat Troy

Cody Estremera April 24, 2018

An early spark was all Alabama needed to take care of Troy on Tuesday. The Crimson Tide plated four in the first inning, before defeating the Trojans 4-3. The win moves Alabama’s record to 23-20 on the...

Baseball shutout by Samford

Baseball shutout by Samford

Cody Estremera April 17, 2018

After being swept by Texas A&M over the weekend, Alabama needed a win to start its six game homestand on the right tract. It failed to do anything for most of the night, losing 6-0 to Samford.  The Bulldogs...

Baseball swept by No. 19 Texas A&M

Baseball swept by No. 19 Texas A&M

Cody Estremera April 14, 2018

Alabama fell to No. 19 Texas A&M on Saturday 2-1 in 11 innings. With the loss, Alabama is 21-16 on the season and 5-10 in the SEC. After a lead off error, Michael Helman grounded back to the pitcher, but...

Baseball wins second SEC series

Baseball wins second SEC series

Cody Estremera April 8, 2018

Alabama picked up its second SEC series win on Saturday after splitting its double header against Missouri. The Crimson Tide lost in game one's pitcher's duel 1-0, but came back to win 5-1 in the second...

Keith Holcombe stays with baseball

Keith Holcombe stays with baseball

Cody Estremera March 26, 2018

For the last three years, Keith Holcombe has jumped straight from the national championship into baseball mode. The first two years, he played the first weeks of the season before returning to football...

Baseball swept by Tennessee

Baseball swept by Tennessee

Cody Estremera March 25, 2018

Alabama baseball was swept by Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee after losing both games of the Sunday double header. Alabama lost the first game 2-1 and was shut out 3-0 in the final game of the series....