Alabama
23-0, 3-0
Ole Miss
18-8, 0-3
Softball Secures Series Sweep over Ole Miss with 2-1 Win Sunday
3/8/2026 3:46:00 PM | Softball
The Crimson Tide holds off a late push by the Rebels in the seventh, stranding the tying run in scoring position
OXFORD, Miss. – Alabama softball secured the series sweep over Ole Miss with a 2-1 win Sunday, holding off a late push by the Rebels as the potential tying run was stranded in scoring position in the seventh.
Alabama (23-0, 3-0 SEC) had traffic on the bases in each of the first three innings but Ole Miss (18-8, 0-3 SEC) kept dancing out of danger, keeping the game scoreless. The Crimson Tide finally broke through in the fourth with an RBI single from Audrey Vandagriff and then added another in the fifth with a sac fly RBI from Salen Hawkins to make it 2-0. Jocelyn Briski (8-0) threw 6.0 shutout innings before the Rebels tried to mount a comeback in the seventh, putting two on with two out. Taylor Roman got the home team on the board with an RBI single, moving the potential tying run into scoring position. Vic Moten entered the game to secure the final out, doing so with a swinging strikeout to earn her first career save.
From Head Coach Patrick Murphy
"I thought [Jocelyn] Briski gave us an incredible start. There were only two innings where people got on base and then Vic [Moten] came in, shut the door and did what she needed to do. The offense did enough to get us one more run than they did. We played really good defense all weekend and that was one of the big keys today."
Highlights
- Alabama improves to 23-0, surpassing the 22-0 start from 2013 for the fifth best start in program history, now just two shy of tying the 25-0 start in 2007
- The Crimson Tide is now 71-7 all-time vs. the Rebels, including a 34-4 mark in Oxford, with this weekend marking Alabama's 19th series sweep over Ole Miss
- It is the Tide's first SEC road sweep since April 14-16, 2023 at Mississippi State
- Audrey Vandagriff, Alexis Pupillo and Ana Roman all had two hits on Sunday with Pupillo improving her reached-base streak to 20 games
- Brooke Wells was 1-for-3 with a walk Sunday, finishing the weekend at 7-for-9 (.778) with three walks, three runs scored and four RBIs
- Vic Moten's save was the first of her career and the first for any Alabama pitcher this season
Scoring Summary
- T4 | Audrey Vandagriff drove in Mari Hubbard with a single up the middle (1-0, 2 Out)
- T5 | Alexis Pupillo scored on a sac fly RBI (2-0, 1 Out)
- B7 | Taylor Roman drove in the Rebels' first run of the day with an RBI single (2-1, 2 Out)
Up Next: vs. Samford (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
- Tuesday, March 10 – 7 p.m. CT – SEC Network
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Briski, Jocelyn (8-0)
L: Emilee Boyer (4-5)
S: Moten, Vic (1)
Batting:
RBI: Vandagriff, Audrey 1 ; Hawkins, Salen 1
SH: Giles, Marlie 1 ; Young, Jena 1
SF: Hawkins, Salen 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Pupillo, Alexis 1 ; Hubbard, Mari 1
SB: Pupillo, Alexis 1 ; Roman, Ana 2 ; Duchscherer, Abby 1
CS: Vandagriff, Audrey 1
Batting:
RBI: Taylor Roman 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Izzy Rettiger 1
