Alabama went with Lexi Kilfoyl in the circle to open the NCAA tournament and the results were outstanding. Kilfoyl threw the first 5.1 innings of a combined no-hitter with Krystal Goodman and the Tide offense did its part to produce a run-rule 9-0 victory. As rolltide.com points out, this is Alabama’s first NCAA tournament no-no since Jackie Traina threw one in 2011.
Kilfoyl struck out a career high 15 of the 17 batters she faced. The only baserunner reached on an error, and only one other hitter managed to put the ball in play. It’s tough to do much better than that.