Give Alabama softball freshman pitching sensation Montana Fouts a run or two and things are probably in good shape. Give her 13 and the result is her record is now 12-0 after Alabama defeated Texas A&M 13-3 by run-rule in six innings in College Station Friday night.

Alabama used the long ball to run its record to 32-0, including 4-0 in Southeastern Conference play. The Aggies fell to 17-12, including 1-6 in the conference.

Bama and the Aggies meet in the second of a three-game series at 2 p.m. CDT Saturday.

The third-ranked Crimson Tide got a three-run home run from Bailey Hemphill in the first inning, a solo homer from Claire Jenkins in the third, another solo shot in the fifth from Merris Schroder, and a three-run homer by freshman Skylar Wallace in the sixth. Alabama has hit four or more home runs in three of its last eight games.

Montana Fouts is now 12-0

Fouts wasn’t at her best, perhaps, giving up two runs and three hits and walking four, but she did strike out 10 in five innings of work to get the win. Courtney Gettins came on in relief in the bottom of the sixth with Alabama leading 13-2 and gave up a home run to Dani Elder, but finished the game with no more damage.

Alabama got off to a 3-0 first inning lead. Kaylee Tow led off the game with a walk, went to second when KB Sides singled to shortstop, and the third batter, Bama’s leading home run hitter Bailey Hemphill, did what she does, taking a 2-0 pitch over the center field wall for her team-leading 12th home run.

The Tide picked up two runs in the second inning without benefit of a homer. Skylar Wallace reached on a one-out hit-by-pitch and stole second. An infield single by Elissa Brown moved Wallace to third and Brown stole second. Tow roped a single to right field, scoring Wallace and Brown, but Tow was thrown out at second.

Claire Jenkins provided the third inning scoring with a home run down the left field line that made it 5-0. Jenkins has now homered in all four SEC games for Alabama.

Two walks around a single that ended the no-hit bid loaded the bases for the Aggies in the fourth inning and a fielder’s choice erased a shutout chance.

Schroder got that run back in a hurry, taking the first pich in the fifth inning over the rioght field wall, her seventh of the season. Later in the inning, Maddie Morgan tripled to center field and came home on a sacrifice fly by Skylar Wallce to make it 8-1.

For the Aggies, Kelbi Fortenberry led off the bottom of the fifth with a single and Ann Fritsch doubled to center to bring home Fortenberry and the make the score Bama 8, Texas A&M 2.

Bama wrapped it up with a five-run sixth inning. Hemphill walked and pinch runner Kloyee Anderson went to second on a sacrifice bunt. Schroder walked and Reagan Dykes singled through the left side to load the bases. Maddie Morgan’s single to right scored two runs. Wallace followed with a three-run homer – her fourth of the year -- to make it 13-2.

The Aggies picked up a run in the bottom of the sixth on Elder’s homer, not enough to overcome the run-rule threshold and prevent the game extending.

KB Sides, Maddie Morgan, and Elissa Brown had two hits each for Alabama. Wallace had four RBI, Hemphill three, and Tow and Morgan two each.

Kayla Poynter (3-5) took the loss for the Aggies after pitching only into the third inning.