Alabama softball vs Texas today: live updates, score, highlights
Alabama faces No. 1 Texas in a top-5 showdown at Rhoads Stadium in Tuscaloosa. Follow along for live updates, scores, highlights, analysis and more.
Two top-five teams will square off on the diamond Thursday night when the fourth-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide host the No. 1 Texas Longhorns in Game 1 of a three-game SEC softball series at Rhoads Stadium in Tuscaloosa. Both teams have certainly looked the part so far.
Alabama (33-2 overall, 7-2 conference), which started the season 25-0, has won three straight series against Ole Miss, a top-10 Arkansas team, and most recently Missouri in SEC play. Texas (31-2, 9-0) had won 29 straight games until a 9-7 loss to Texas A&M last Sunday in Austin. Behind starters Jocelyn Briski (13-0, 1.
26 ERA) and Vic Moten (13-2, 1. 47), Alabama has compiled a 1. 41 earned run average in 35 games this season.
That number ranks third best nationally. Texas is 10th nationally in both ERA (2. 23) and batting average (.