Jackets Shutout Alabama St, 9-0 – Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech softball (26-16, 9-6 ACC) took care of business on Wednesday, breezing past Alabama State (18-23, 8-7 SWAC) in five innings, 9-0. The Yellow Jackets scored all nine runs in the bottom of the fourth as Chandler Dennis pitched six strikeout shutout in a dominant display.

QUICK HITS: THE TEAM

• With this win, Georgia Tech has matched its total wins from last season (26) with 11 games remaining on the schedule.
• The win improves GT’s home record to 18-5, tied for the second most home wins in a single season under Coach Morales.
• This marks the second mercy-rule shutout win of the season after defeating Pitt, 8-0, in five innings earlier this year.
• Tech scored nine runs in the bottom of the fourth, the first nine run inning since 2019.
• The Jackets hit two home runs today, bringing the season total to 74, the fifth most in a single season in program history and just one shy of tying the 2006 season for 4^th.
• Georgia Tech turned its ACC leading 22^nd double play of the year in the second inning when Mallorie Black caught a bunt attempt and fired to Domingue at first to catch the runner before she could get back to the bag.
• Tech’s 22 double plays are the fifth-most in a season in program history.

QUICK HITS: THE BATS

• Jayden Gailey set a new career best with three RBI after she hit not one but two doubles in the fourth inning.
• Gailey has now recorded an RBI in five straight games, the longest streak by any Yellow Jacket this season.
• The Lavonia, Ga. native has now doubled in three straight games for the first time in her career, her two doubles today were also a career best.
• Reese Hunter extended her career-best hitting streak to six games with a double in the fourth.
• Hunter now boasts 17 RBI this season, including five RBI in her hitting streak.
• Sara Beth Allen unleashed her career-best 14^th home run of the season, a three-run HR in the fourth inning.
• Allen has now hit a home run in four of her last five at bats.
• Allen becomes the seventh Yellow Jacket to set a new career-high for home runs in a season this year.
• She moves into sole possession of the third-most home runs in the ACC.
• Tiffany Domingue connected for her ninth HR of the year one batter later, a two-run homer to left field.
• Domingue now has 42 RBI this year and 185 over her career, the 17^th most among all active players in Division I.

QUICK HITS: THE ARMS

• Chandler Dennis made her 50^th start as a Yellow Jacket, pitching a complete game shutout with six strikeouts.
• The six strikeouts tied…