Presbyterian Snaps No. 23 Alabama Baseball's Historic Streak

TUSCALOOSA, AL — No. 23 Alabama baseball (16-1, 0-0 SEC) saw its record-tying win streak come to an end with a 11-8 loss to the Presbyterian Blue Hose Sunday afternoon in Sewell-Thomas Stadium.

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The first loss of the 2025 season for the Tide comes the day after Alabama beat Presbyterian 15-1 to break the program's record for the longest win streak to start a season.

The Tide's 16-game winning streak tied the program record for the longest streak, which was set by the team coached by Jim Wells that won 16 consecutive games from May 7-June 11, 1999, and made an appearance in the College World Series.

Bobby Alcock, a right-handed senior from Lynn, Massachusetts, made his fourth start of the season as the Tide's Sunday starter. It would prove his first start of the year without receiving a decision as he tossed 2.2 innings, allowing two runs on two hits.

Alcock struck out four — including striking out the side in the 1st inning — and only surrendered one walk in Sunday's outing.

Tide shortstop Justin Lebron got Alabama on the board first in a big first inning, launching a solo 368-foot home run over the left field wall — his 11th on the season.

Lebron finished the day 1-for-2 with three walks.

Third baseman Jason Torres, a junior from Hialeah, Florida, followed this up with a two-run, 355-foot homer to the opposite field that carried into the Right Field Terrace to put Alabama up 3-0.

Catcher Brady Neal, a junior who transferred to Alabama from LSU, then hit an RBI sacrifice fly to bring the Tide's lead to 4-0 as the inning came to a close.

The Blue Hose answered with two runs in the top of the second then took the lead with a 3-RBI double by Ryan Ouzts in the top of the third to put Presbyterian up 5-4.

Torres hit his second two-run homer of the game in bottom of the third — a towering 352-foot shot to right field — to give the Crimson Tide a 6-5 lead.

The Blue Hose responded again, though, and scratched across a run in the top of the fifth to tie the game at 6. Tide center fielder Richie Bonomolo Jr. got Alabama back out ahead with an RBI sacrifice fly in the bottom half of the inning.

Sophomore right-hander Tyler Fay threw 2.2 innings of relief for Alabama after Alcock was pulled and gave up one run on two hits, while striking out one.

Matthew Heiberger, a hard-throwing lefty from Oak Mountain High School in Birmingham, came on in relief of Fay in the top half of the 6th inning and immediately surrendered back-to-back hits that saw the Blue Hose tie the game once again.

Heiberger failed to get out of the inning and was relieved by Braylon Myers — a senior from Bessemer who walked in the lead run to give Presbyterian a 8-7 lead. This jam got even worse for the home team when Amman Dewberry roped a bases-loaded single to drive two more across to extend the lead to 11-7.

Tide closer Carson Ozmer was brought in to stop the bleeding and got Alabama out of a tumultuous 6th inning that saw Presbyterian score 5 runs.

Ozmer threw 2.1 innings of relief, striking out four and giving up only one hit and no runs.

Sophomore Austin Morris came on in the ninth, before being relieved by Aidan Moza, who closed out inning and game without surrendering a hit or run in the losing effort.

Alabama tried to claw back in the bottom of the 8th, closing the distance to 11-8 when Will Hodo reached on a two-out error that scored Lebron from second. The bats would go quiet in the 9th, though, and the bottom of the order for Alabama was set down in succession.

The Crimson Tide will conclude its non-conference slate Wednesday with a midweek matchup against the UAB Blazers at 6 p.m. in Birmingham's Regions Field.

Alabama will open Southeastern Conference play on Friday, March 14 when the Crimson Tide travels to College Station for a three-game weekend series with Texas A&M.

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