Larissa Preuitt Grand Slam Lifts Alabama to 4-0 Win over Missouri

Friday, March 31

Columbia, Mo.

6:30 p.m. CT

Alabama

25-10, 3-4

Missouri

21-15, 1-9

Alabama

Mizzou

Larissa Preuitt celebrates with the team after a grand slam at Missouri (March 31, 2023)

Larissa Preuitt Grand Slam Lifts Alabama to 4-0 Win over Missouri

3/31/2023 9:30:00 PM | Softball

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Preuitt’s first career home run makes the difference as Montana Fouts strikes out 12

COLUMBIA, Mo. – A fourth-inning grand slam with two outs from freshman Larissa Preuitt was the difference in a 4-0 shutout for Alabama over Missouri in the series opener Friday night at Mizzou Softball Stadium.

Alabama (25-10, 3-4 SEC) and Missouri (21-15, 1-9 SEC) were scoreless until a two-out grand slam from Preuitt in the top of the fourth got the Crimson Tide on the board. The Tigers struggled against Montana Fouts (12-6), held to just two hits and one walk with 12 strikeouts, getting a runner into scoring position just twice. Kenleigh Cahalan and Ally Shipman each went 2-for-3, while Preuitt's grand slam was her first career home run.

Larissa's first career HR puts the Tide on top!@larissa_preuitt

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— Alabama Softball (@AlabamaSB) April 1, 2023

From Head Coach Patrick Murphy

"It was a dominating performance from Montana and the biggest hit in Larissa's career so far. It couldn't have happened at a better time, we absolutely needed it. For her to come through as a freshman with two outs and the bases loaded was huge. The trajectory of the team is looking good."

Highlights

Alabama improves to 18-11 all-time vs. Missouri, including a 4-3 mark in Columbia
The Crimson Tide is now 2-1 in SEC series openers this season
Larissa Preuitt's grand slam was her first career home run and the first grand slam for any Alabama batter this season
The multi-hit game was the seventh this season for Kenligh Cahalan and the sixth for Ally Shipman
Shipman went 2-for-3 to extend her hitting and reached base streaks to seven games, the former one shy of her career best set in 2021
Going 1-for-2 with a walk, Emma Broadfoot extended her reached base streak to seven games
The game was Montana Fouts' seventh this season with double-digit strikeouts and the 49th of her career,
Fouts' last game with 10+ strikeouts in regulation was in the perfect game against Longwood on March 5, doing so subsequently in extra-inning efforts against Texas (March 11) and Arkansas (March 20)
Fouts now has 87 career wins, 10 shy of Stephanie VanBrakle (2003-06) in fourth place in the Alabama record books with 97
It was her 106th career start, two shy of fifth-place Alexis Osorio (2015-18), her 76th complete game, two shy of fifth-place Osorio, and her 29th shutout, nine shy of second-place Kelsi Dunne (2008-11)
Her 12 strikeouts gives Fouts 1,042 for her career, three away from tying fourth-place Shelley Laird (1999-2002) with 1,045

Scoring Summary

T4 | Larissa Preuitt pulled a two-out grand slam to right field (4-0, 2 Out)

Up Next: at Missouri (Columbia, Mo.)

Saturday, April 1 – 5 p.m. CT – SEC Network
Sunday, April 2 – 1 p.m. CT

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