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Michael Gupton running bases vs Alabama 2025
11
Winner Alabama UA 32-10
7
Samford SAM 22-18
Winner
Alabama UA
32-10
11
Final
7
Samford SAM
22-18
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Alabama UA 2 2 0 1 2 0 0 3 1 11 12 1
Samford SAM 1 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 7 10 0

W: Austin Morris (3-0) L: Sanders, Trey (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Falls To No. 18 Alabama, 11-7

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Samford University baseball team battled the 18th-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide before falling by a score of 11-7 Tuesday evening at Joe Lee Griffin Field.
 
With the loss, Samford dropped its record to 22-18 on the season. Alabama improved its mark to 32-10 with the win.
 
"As I always like to say, if you list the positives and negatives of a game, the list of positives far outweighs the negative," Samford head coach Tony David said. "We swung the bats well. Anytime you're throwing that many pitchers it's going to be hard for all of them to throw well, but most of them did. We had a couple of tough innings where we just lost the strike zone or balls got called."
 
For Samford in the loss, Jeffrey Ince went 2-for-5 with a home run and one RBI. Michael Gupton went 2-for-4 with a double and three RBI. Jackson Harris went 2-for-5 with a double, while Jake Souders homered, going 1-for-4 with two RBI.
 
Trey Sanders (1-1) pitched 1.2 innings, giving up three runs and allowing four walks to take the loss on the mound for Samford. Brooks Rice, Noah Berry, Cullen Horowicz, John Whitney, Evan Steckmesser, Joseph Lee and Heath Cleavenger also saw time on the mound for Samford.
 
For Alabama in the game, Will Hodo went 2-for-2 with a home run and three RBI, while Garrett Staton went 2-for-5 with a home run, a double and two RBI. Justin Lebron went 3-for-4 with a double and one RBI. Austin Morris (3-0) pitched 1.0 hitless inning in relief to earn the win on the mound for Alabama.
 
After Alabama scored two runs in the top of the first inning, Ince led off the bottom of the first with a solo home run to cut the lead to 2-1. Alabama plated two more runs in the top of the second inning, but Samford came back with three runs in the bottom of the third inning to knot the score at 4-4. Souders hit a two-run home run and Gupton doubled to drive in another run in the third.
 
After Alabama scored a run in the fourth inning and two more in the fifth, Samford answered with three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to once again tie the score at 7-7. The runs in the bottom of the fifth were scored on a two-run single by Gupton and an RBI double by Gatlin Pitts.
 
The score remained tied until the top of the eighth inning when Alabama plated three runs to take a 10-7 lead. Lebron scored the first run of the inning on a wild pitch. Hodo then hit a two-RBI single for a three-run Alabama lead. The final run of the game was scored in the top of the ninth inning when Kade Snell singled to drive in a run to make the final score 11-7.
 
Next up, Samford will host Western Carolina in a three-game Southern Conference series this weekend at Joe Lee Griffin Field. The teams are scheduled to play Friday at 4 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.


 
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