Under second-year head coach Ed Allen, the 2012 Alabama volleyball team finished the season with an 18-14 overall record, while posting a 7-13 mark in Southeastern Conference play. The Crimson Tide finished the season by winning four of its last six matches, which included wins over Kentucky (3-1), in Tuscaloosa, and Missouri (3-2), in Columbia, Mo., to close out the season. 
 
The Tide opened the year by winning 11 of its 12 non-conference matches, which included an 11-match winning streak, the longest streak since the 2005 squad won 13 straight. As part of the 11-match winning streak, Alabama won the tournament title at the Elon Phoenix Classic, posting a 3-0 record against North Carolina Central, Gardner-Webb and Elon.

 The second-ranked Alabama men's golf team shot the lowest round of the day on Saturday in the second round of the 2013 SEC Championship at the par-70, 6,898-yard Seaside Course at the Sea Island Golf Club to pull within three shots of the lead.

The Crimson Tide shot 5-under-par 275 and trail South Carolina by three shots entering Sunday's final round at 2-under 558. The Gamecocks are 5-under 555 and are led by tournament leader Caleb Sturegon, who is 8-under after 36 holes. Auburn, the first-round leader, is third at 4-over 564 with Texas A&M fourth (566) and Georgia fifth (570).

Junior Cory Whitsett has led the Crimson Tide throughout and is tied for second place at 4-under 136, four shots off the lead. Whitsett, from Houston, Texas, shot 3-under 67 on Saturday, making three birdies in the final four holes. He opened with a 1-under 69 on Friday.

With the score tied at 4-4, Alabama had a three-run eighth inning, that included back-to-back RBI doubles by Ben Moore and Austen Smith en route to a 7-4 non-conference win over the Southern Mississippi Golden Eagles on Wednesday night from Pete Taylor Park. With the win, Alabama improves to 25-18 overall, while the Golden Eagles fall to 21-19.

“We competed really hard for nine innings. The key to the game tonight was Jay Shaw and the rest of the bullpen. Shaw was terrific when he came and he was followed by Guilbeau, Haack and Hawley. After the four-spot they gave us, then never really threatened the rest of the game due to the bullpen.”

The Alabama Crimson Tide (25-18, 9-9 SEC) will host Texas A&M (22-20, 7-11 SEC) in a three-game Southeastern Conference series this weekend. The series begins on Friday night, with first pitch scheduled for 6:35 p.m. CST, from Sewell-Thomas Stadium. Game two is slated for 6:05 p.m. CST, on Saturday and the series finale will start at 1:05 p.m. CST, on Sunday.

All Alabama baseball games throughout the 2013 season will be broadcast by the Crimson Tide Sports Network

Alabama on a Roll

 With the win Alabama completes the series victory over Tennessee and improves their record to 11-9 overall and 2-1 in the SEC. The Volunteers drop to 10-9 in all and 1-2 in conference play.

"I told the team, you have to win games a lot of different ways," UA head coach Mitch Gaspard said. "Obviously, today was one of those rare commodities where you score eight runs in the first inning. What I was most proud of the team today was that after the eight runs, we kept playing and our guys had constant pressure throughout the game. All weekend we had really good energy, was very competitive throughout, even in last night's game we were just a little sloppy at times but we continued to play."

Star Freshmen

Salem had hits in all five games last week, which included two multiple hit games and his fourth three-hit game of the season. He finished the week with a team-high seven RBI from the leadoff spot in the order, which included a career-high four RBI in Alabama’s 15-1 victory over the Tennessee on March 17.

After going 1-for-4 in both games against Memphis, Salem collected six of his eight hits on the weekend versus Tennessee. He was 1-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored in the opener against the Vols, was 2-for-4 with a walk and an RBI in game two, then exploded with a 3-for-5, four-RBI game on Sunday. The four RBIs marked the most by an Alabama player in a single game this season.

Big Bats

Trailing 7-3, the Crimson Tide put together a rally in the eighth for their most explosive inning of the game. Moore led off with a stand-up double and Booth followed in the next at-bat with a single to drive him in. Smith's double down the left field line put runners on second and third for Overstreet, whose groundout drove in Booth. Cameron Mike capped off the inning when his RBI single to center on the first pitch he saw to cut the deficit to 7-6. But it would not be enough as the Tide went scoreless in the ninth.