TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -After an hour and ten minute weather delay, the Alabama soccer team defeated Sam Houston State in a 5-0 decision to open the 2016 season on Friday night at the Alabama Soccer Complex. The Crimson Tide featured four different goal scorers in the game, and it out shot the Bearkats by a 36-3 margin.Alabama improves to an overall 1-0 record, while Sam Houston falls to 0-1 overall.I am very pleased with our performance tonight, said head coach Wes Hart. Every player on the team contributed to the win. I am happy to see Emma Welch was dangerous all night long and scored for the second time in three games. Lacey Clarida continued her goal scoring streak dating back to last spring, and she has scored in her last eight games. Tori Gann was excellent. We used Tori a lot last year as a reserve to come into games and bring energy. Tonight she was called upon to start due to an injury and she did not disappoint. We will enjoy this victory for the next few hours, and then our focus will shift to Sunday and Murray State. Sophomore Tori Gann led the Tide offensively, as she registered two goals on the day. Both of Ganns goals came in the first half. The other three goal scorers included senior Auburn Mercer, sophomore Emma Welch and junior Lacey Clarida.Both teams battled early on until Gann capitalized off a cross that came from Welch at about 12 yards out in the 17th minute to give Alabama an early 1-0 lead. Five minutes later, at the 22:50 mark, Gann scored again except this time it came unassisted as she weaved through defenders to drill a shot five yards outside the box to give the Tide a 2-0 lead. The scoring affair continued in the first half, as Mercer converted from 10 yards out off a pass from freshman Louge Shamburger in the 36th minute to extend the Tide lead to 3-0 going into halftime.Junior Kat Stratton registered her only save of the match in the first half. Going into halftime Alabama led 17-2 in shots and 5-0 in corner kicks.Nine minutes into the second half, 54:30 minute mark, Welch drilled a shot in the right side of the net from a pass that came from sophomore Abbie Boswell giving Alabama a 4-0 lead. Clarida scored the Tides final goal of the game in the 68th minute on a through ball that came from senior Jordan Meier to lengthen the lead to 5-0.Alabama played solid defense in the second half allowing only one Sam Houston shot compared to the Tides 19. The Tide compiled seven corner kicks in the half, and it held the Bearkats to zero.The Crimson Tide will be back in action on Sunday, Aug. 21, when it takes on the Murray State Racers at the Alabama Soccer Complex at 6 p.m. CT. Cheap Washington Huskies Jerseys China .ca. Kerry, Just watched the shootout in the Coyotes/Leafs game and I have to ask, why was the James van Riemsdyk goal allowed to count? 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CINCINNATI -- Manager Joe Maddons move was so wacky that even his own players laughed. And when it worked better than anyone could have imagined, the Cubs were celebrating again.Kris Bryant singled home the tiebreaking run in the 15th inning, and Maddon used three pitchers in left field while Chicago beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-2 on Tuesday night in the longest game of the season for both teams.With the Cubs out of position players, relievers Travis Wood and Spencer Patton (1-0) alternated between left field and the mound in the 14th inning, which ended with Patton getting the final out. Wood then finished it off with reliever Pedro Strop in left.When I went out there to do it originally, the infielders were kind of giggling, said Maddon, who had never done anything like it as a manager.It worked perfectly as things started falling in place for the Cubs again.Bryants only hit on Tuesday -- a single off J.J. Hoover (1-2) -- snapped the tie. Javier Baez added a grand slam in the 15th, the sixth career allowed by Hoover, which is a Reds record. Then it was just a matter of figuring out how to finish it off.For the left fielder to pitch to one batter and then go back -- yeah, thats crazy, Baez said. But we had fun.The National Leagues top team went 1-6 last week but has pulled out of the downturn by winning the first two games of a series against the Reds. The Cubs hit five homers -- three by Bryant -- while taking the opener 11-8.Eugenio Suarez singled home the tying run with two outs in the ninth off Hector Rondon, his third blown save in 16 chances, setting the game on its meandering course.There were a lot of instances that suggest things were going to go our way, but we werent able to get it done, Reds manager Bryan Price said. Thats a tough one, a really tough one.Maddon had talked to Wood about playing left field in such a circumstance. The reliever hadnt played outfield since high school, but takes fly balls during batting practice to stay ready. None of the Reds hit the ball to left field with a Cubs reliever out there, which was a disappointment for Wood.It was definitely interesting, a lot of fun, Wood said.dddddddddddd. I would have liked to have recorded an out.Ben Zobrist led off the game with a homer off left-hander John Lamb. Left-hander Jon Lester singled home another run and allowed only one hit until the eighth inning, when Billy Hamilton homered. The Cubs closer couldnt hold on.A lot of the focus Tuesday was on Bryant, who was coming off a historic performance.Bryant became the first major league player to hit three homers and two doubles in a game on Monday night. He set a Cubs record with 16 total bases and became the youngest Cubs player to hit three homers in a game since Ernie Banks did it in 1955, also at the age of 24.Bryant broke his three-homer bat the first time up on Tuesday, cracking it on a groundout. The bat boy retrieved it and took it to the Major League Baseball authenticator, who labeled the bat and safely stored it. Bryant flied out, walked twice, fouled out with two runners aboard for the final out in the 10th, and struck out in the 13th before driving in the go-ahead run.SO UNUSUALThe last time a Cubs pitcher played the outfield was 2009 when Sean Marshall was in left.TRAINERS ROOMReds: RHP Homer Bailey felt fine a day after throwing an inning in his first rehab start. Bailey, who is recovering from Tommy John surgery 13 months ago, is expected to pitch again on Saturday. ... 2B Brandon Phillips fouled a ball off the inside of his left foot in the first inning. He fouled another pitch off the same foot in his next at-bat and got hit in the left side by a pitch from Rondon in the ninth.UP NEXTCubs: Kyle Hendricks (5-6, 2.76) is 1-5 with a 3.79 ERA in seven road starts this season. Hes 4-1 with a 1.93 ERA in seven home games.Reds: Cody Reed (0-1, 6.75) makes his third career start. In his first appearance at Great American Ball Park last Friday, he gave up five runs in five innings of a 13-4 loss to the Padres.---Follow Joe Kay on Twitter: http://twitter.com/apjoekay ' ' '