Michelle Lepianka Carter | Tuscaloosa News
Executive Sports Editor
Last Modified: Sunday, May 24, 2015 at 10:54 p.m.
It could have been over for the University of Alabama softball team before it started.
The dramatic ending to the Crimson Tide's two-game sweep of Oklahoma on Saturday at the Tuscaloosa Super Regional, which punched Alabama's ticket to play in the Women's College World Series this week in Oklahoma City, could have instead been wiped away by a tragic start.
Haylie McCleney wouldn't let it happen.
Alabama (47-13) will play Michigan on Thursday at 6 p.