TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama softball took home a pair of shutout wins Friday at the T-Mobile Crimson Classic, defeating St. Thomas, 2-0, and USF, 8-0.

Alabama (16-0) blanked St. Thomas (12-5) in a low-scoring 2-0 shutout to start Friday’s action, with a first inning home run from Alexis Pupillo providing enough offense behind a stellar outing from Jocelyn Briski (5-0) in the circle. The junior threw a complete-game shutout in the circle, striking out a career-best 14 while holding the Tommies to just two hits and two walks.

In the second game of the day, the Tide and USF (16-6) were scoreless until a three-run fourth inning got the Crimson Tide on the board and a five-run fifth ultimately ended it, with Lauren Johnson providing the final blow via a two-run double to make it 8-0 to secure the run-rule victory. Freshman Vic Moten (8-0) took home the win in the circle, fanning seven while allowing just two baserunners to reach.

“We had two really good pitchers throw against us and we knew that they were going to throw great games, so now we need to get used to that. Pupillo hit the off-speed pitch in the first game for an opposite field home run – you don’t see that very often. In the second game, we made a couple of good adjustments against USF’s second pitcher. That last inning is where we exploded and we were waiting for that.”

Highlights

• Ten of Alabama’s 16 wins this season have been shutouts and seven have been run-rule victories
• With a hit in each game Friday, Alexis Pupillo extended her hitting streak to eight games and her reached-base streak to 12 games
• Jena Young reached base safely in both games, extending her team-leading reached base streak to 15 games which is just four shy of her career best set in 2024 as a freshman at Iowa
• Pupillo now leads the team with seven home runs, 22 RBIs and seven multi-RBI games
• Jocelyn Briski pitched a complete-game shutout over St. Thomas, striking out a career-best 14 batters and throwing 77 of her 105 pitches for strikes (73 percent)
• Briski’s fourth inning walk was her first allowed this season, ending her streak at 23.0 consecutive walk-free innings to start the year
• The win is already Vic Moten’s third solo shutout of the season and the third time she has hit her season-best mark of seven strikeouts

Scoring Summary vs. St. Thomas

• B1 | Alexis Pupillo hit a line drive home run to left center, scoring two (2-0, 1 Out)

Scoring Summary vs. USF

• B4 | Salen Hawkins drove in Ana Roman with an RBI single (1-0, 1 Out)
• B4 | With the bases loaded, Audrey Vandagriff singled up the middle to score two (3-0, 2 Out)
• B5 | Roman plated two with a single to shallow left (5-0, 0 Out)
• B5 | Roman scored on a fielder’s choice (6-0, 0 Out)
• B5 | Lauren Johnson ended the run-rule with a two-run double (8-0, 1 Out)

Up Next: T-Mobile Crimson Classic (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

• Saturday, Feb. 28 vs. Kent State – 11 a.m. CT
• Saturday, Feb. 28 vs. USF – 1:30 p.m. CT
• Sunday, March 1 vs. St. Thomas – 11:30 a.m. CT
• Sunday, March 1 vs. Oakland – 30 mins. following St. Thomas game