No. 15 Bulldogs Take Game One in Tuscaloosa, 4-3

Friday, March 28

Tuscaloosa, Ala.

7:00 p.m.

University of Georgia

24-8, 4-6

Alabama

23-13, 2-5

Georgia

Alabama

March 28, 2025 | Softball

Box Score

SOFTBALL | at ALABAMA | W, 4-3
   Winning pitcher: Lilli Backes (10-3)
   Save: Randi Roelling (2)
   Losing Pitcher: Emily Winstead (6-2)

Season Record: 25-8, 4-6 SEC

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The 15^th-ranked Georgia Bulldogs defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide Friday evening, 4-3, in the weekend series opener at Rhoads Stadium.

Georgia climbs to 25-8 on the season and 4-6 in SEC play.

FAST FACTS

Lilli Backes pitched five and two-thirds innings in her start, allowing one earned run on seven hits. Backes held a shutout into the fifth inning. She struck out eight Tide hitters, walking just two. The win was her 10^th of the season.
Randi Roelling entered in the bottom of the sixth and got Georgia out of a jam. She closed the game, pitching the final inning and a third, en route to her second save of the season.
Georgia scattered seven hits in the game, led by two from Jaydyn Goodwin. She scored a run and drove one in on a sac fly. Her sacrifice fly in the top of the seventh provided key insurance, widening Georgia's lead to 4-2.
Sarah Gordon, Lyndi Rae Davis, and Emily Digby all had a double while Dallis Goodnight picked up a triple.
Alabama scored a run in each of the last three innings, but Georgia was able to hold the Tide en route to the series-opening win.

UP NEXT
The Bulldogs and Crimson Tide will square off in game two of the series on Saturday at 3 p.m. ET in Tuscaloosa, streaming live on SEC Network+.

ALL FOR ALEX WEEKEND
The 15 SEC schools join together to wear teal or teal accents on Saturday, March 29 as the entire league recognizes Alex Wilcox's impact on the softball community nationwide and in the fight against ovarian cancer.

This is the fifth year of the campaign (2021-25). The campaign is a joint effort of LSU head coach Beth Torina and Mississippi State head coach Samantha Ricketts and was approved at the SEC coaches' meetings in the fall of 2019.

Wilcox was a member of the 2018 Mississippi State softball team who inspired the nation with her courageous fight against ovarian cancer. That fight ultimately took her life in the summer of 2018.