The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
Blazers Down Marist in Five Innings
3/1/2026 5:34:00 PM | Softball
COLUMBIA, S.C. - UAB Softball completed the weekend sweep over Marist with a 9-0 win in five innings, heading home with a 4-1 weekend record in Columbia. UAB earned its third run-rule win of the weekend, all with double-digit hits. The Blazers took advantage of four Marist errors, key to a big three-run play in the bottom of the first inning.
A five-run first inning powered the Blazers to the win. Ashlyn Shirah started the scoring with a two-run single to the right field gap. Then a fielder's choice with three Marist errors allowed the Blazers to score three. A pair of RBI singles and a couple of bases-loaded walks drove in enough runs to get the Blazers over the eight-run run-rule mark.
Four Blazers tallied a pair of hits, including Hannah Dorsett, Charlee Bennett, Ashlyn Shirah, and Hannah Miles. Dorsett's 2-for-4 performance meant she finished the weekend 10-for-19. Bennett also continued her great weekend, drawing her sixth walk of the weekend, reaching base three times in the game.
Tait Davidson tossed her best outing of the year, allowing just two hits in four complete innings. Zaylen Tucker closed the game with her first career pitching appearance.
The Run Down
Stat Lines
A five-run first inning powered the Blazers to the win. Ashlyn Shirah started the scoring with a two-run single to the right field gap. Then a fielder's choice with three Marist errors allowed the Blazers to score three. A pair of RBI singles and a couple of bases-loaded walks drove in enough runs to get the Blazers over the eight-run run-rule mark.
Four Blazers tallied a pair of hits, including Hannah Dorsett, Charlee Bennett, Ashlyn Shirah, and Hannah Miles. Dorsett's 2-for-4 performance meant she finished the weekend 10-for-19. Bennett also continued her great weekend, drawing her sixth walk of the weekend, reaching base three times in the game.
Tait Davidson tossed her best outing of the year, allowing just two hits in four complete innings. Zaylen Tucker closed the game with her first career pitching appearance.
The Run Down
- B1 | Shirah singled to right center to score Bennett and Dorsett (2-0).
- B1 | A Miles fielder's choice with the bases loaded created chaos on the base paths. Perkins scored on a throwing error while all other runners moved up. Then, another error on a throw back to second base allowed Shirah to score. Finally, a muffed play by the catcher drew Miles into a run down between second and third, allowing H. Tucker to score in the process (5-0).
- B3 | Dorsett singled through the left side to score Miles (6-0).
- B4 | H. Tucker singled to right field, scoring Bennett (7-0).
- B4 | Flammia walked with the bases loaded, scoring Shirah (8-0).
- B4 | Holt drew a bases-loaded walk to score H. Tucker (9-0).
Stat Lines
- Dorsett: 2-for-4, RBI, R
- Bennett: 2-for-2, 2B, BB, 2 R
- Shirah: 2-for-3, 2 RBI, 2R, SB
- H. Tucker: 1-for-2, BB, RBI, 2R
- Miles: 2-for-3, R
- Flammia: 0-for-1, 2 BB, RBI
- Holt: 1-for-2, BB, RBI
- Davidson: Win (2-2), 4.0 IP, 2H, 0R, 0ER, 1BB, 2K
- Davidson got her second win of the season.
- The outing was Davidson's first scoreless appearance of the year.
- Davidson has walked a batter in each of her nine appearances.
- Z. Tucker: 1.0 IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 0BB, 0K
- Tucker made her first career pitching appearance with a three-up-three-down inning.
- UAB hosts #19/#12 Mississippi State at Mary Bowers Field at 5 p.m., on Wednesday, March 4, before opening up American Conference play at home next weekend against North Texas.
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