{"id":164996,"date":"2026-02-22T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164996\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:40:07","slug":"alabama-softball-makes-emphatic-statement-with-two-dominant-wins-over-florida-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164996\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama softball makes emphatic statement with two dominant wins over Florida State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5r\">Heading into the weekend at 9-0, most Alabama softball fans were approaching the start of the season with cautious optimism. The Crimson Tide had<a href=\"https:\/\/bamahammer.com\/alabama-softball-s-dominant-start-to-the-2026-season-has-put-the-country-on-notice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> looked completely dominant<\/a>, outscoring its opponents 83-9 through nine games, but the competition hadn&#8217;t been fierce. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5u\">That changed this weekend in Tallahassee with two games against a Top 10-ranked Florida State team on the road. What didn&#8217;t change was the result: Alabama dominated the Seminoles as they had dominated everyone else this season, going 2-0 in the two meetings and outscoring FSU 13-1. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5x\">There&#8217;s no more time for caution: Patrick Murphy has his best team in a few years, and the two wins over Florida State proved just that. This team is good enough to go a long way. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"60\">Jocelyn Briski and freshman Vic Moten form a formidable 1-2 punch in the rotation, and Alabama might even have a reliable third arm in Kaitlyn Pallozzi, who tossed a perfect game against Elon on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Alabama used the long ball to pile it on Florida State in Tallahassee<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"66\">But the biggest reason for optimism has been a newfound pop in the lineup. The lack of power had been a major Achilles heel the last few seasons. A year ago, Alabama hit just 60 home runs in 58 games. This year, the Crimson Tide is nearly halfway to that total with 29 dingers in 12 games. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"69\">Alabama hit seven homers in the two games against Florida State: three in the first game on Friday and four more on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6c\">In the Crimson Tide&#8217;s 8-0 win on Friday, Brooke Wells, Alexis Pupilo, and Ana Roman all went yard during an explosive 4th inning. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6f\">In the 5-1 win on Saturday, it was two homers by Pupilo sandwiched between home runs by Mari Hubbard and Jena Young. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6i\">If that pop continues, and Briski and Moten keep throwing gem after gem, then the sky is the limit for Team 30 in Tuscaloosa. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6l\">Alabama finishes its weekend trip to Tallahassee with a game against Dartmouth on Sunday morning. They&#8217;ll be back at Rhodes for a midweek matchup against UAB on Tuesday and then a weekend series that features games against St. Thomas, USF, and Kent State.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heading into the weekend at 9-0, most Alabama softball fans were approaching the start of the season with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-164996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}