The Crimson Tide will make the NCAA tournament in back-to-back seasons, and the first under new coach Rob Vaughn.
It’s the second year in a row that UA reached a regional round and the 19th time in the last 30 years that the Tide made the tournament. The Tide hosted last year in a historic run under interim head coach Jason Jackson, who Vaughn retained as his pitching coach. Now, despite a late slide, Alabama’s will get another crack.
The other teams in the Tide’s group are eight-overall seed FSU, three-seed UCF, a bubble team at 35-19, 14-15 Big 12, and Stetson, a 40-win winner of the ASUN Conference. Alabama planned to keep practices light ahead of next Friday’s opener; UA had been preparing as if it would be one of the 11 Southeastern Conference teams to qualify, it’s unclear how many made it.
Alabama last played on May 23 when it jumped out to an early lead but lost a shootout to South Carolina in the SEC tournament. The Tide pitching staff was strained through league play and took a beating in a Hoover, and will try for a turnaround in Florida.UA’s bats, charged by freshman Justin Lebron, catcher Mac Guscettea and infielder Gage Miller — three of the seven Tide hitters with at least 30 games played and a plus-.
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