SEC announces Softball Tournament Day 3 start time, movement of night games to Friday
The SEC Softball Tournament quarterfinals will take place after a lengthy weather delay on Thursday.
Just after 1 p.m. CT, the SEC announced that the first quarterfinal between LSU and Tennessee will begin at 5:02 p.m. CT, while the second quarterfinal between Missouri and Arkansas will begin approximately 35 minutes after that game concludes.
Meanwhile, the next two quarterfinal matchups have been moved to Friday morning. Florida and Georgia will begin at 9 a.m. CT with the Texas A&M vs. South Carolina game beginning 35 minutes after the end of that one. Plus, the SEC notes that the ballpark will open at 8:30 a.m. CT. Friday morning.
Recap of historic Wednesday at SEC Tournament
More than 430 pitches were thrown in the titanic struggle between LSU and Alabama in the first round of the SEC Softball Tournament, with the Tigers finally securing the win in the bottom of the 14th inning.
The 14-inning ballgame set the record for the most innings in a single SEC Tournament game, a record that was then tied by a game later in the evening.
The two clubs knocked in two runs apiece during the regulation innings before remaining deadlocked at 2-2 through the 13th inning. Then, in the 14th, with the bases loaded and one out, LSU’s Taylor Pleasants sent a moonshot right over top of the Alabama centerfielder that hit the wall and drove in the final run, winning the game for the Tigers, 3-2.
The second matchup of the day saw 5-seed Missouri control their matchup against 13-seed Ole Miss after scoring three early runs. The Rebels wouldn’t find the scoreboard until the seventh, but by that time it was too late thanks to the pitching performance of Laurin Krings and Taylor Pannell.
Excitement continued in game three, seeing 7-seed Georgia and 10-seed Auburn battle into extra innings at two runs a piece. After a pitcher’s duel sent this game into 14 innings tied at 2-2 — seven combined runs from both teams were scored in the 14th as Bulldogs catcher Sarah Gordon worked an 0-1 count over the fence to walk it off for Georgia, who will now face 2-seed Florida on Thursday.
This game broke the LSU-Alabama record for the longest game in SEC Tournament history by nearly 30 minutes, as the clubs played for a whopping 4 hours and 21 minutes.