Alabama Softball Shows Its Grit: Brooke Wells Leads Tide to 3-2 Win Over South Carolina

If you want to understand what Alabama softball is all about this time of year, Thursday night at Rhoads Stadium gave you the perfect answer. It wasn’t clean. It wasn’t perfect.

But it was tough, it was resilient, and most importantly, it was a win. Alabama fought its way to a 3-2 victory over South Carolina in a back-and-forth series opener, the kind of game that tests you mentally just as much as physically. And this team passed that test.

The Crimson Tide moved to 45-6 overall and 17-5 in SEC play, and in the process locked up a top-four seed and a double bye in next week’s SEC Tournament. That matters. A lot.

But the way they got there might matter even more. Because this game? It was gritty.