The first season of the Rob Vaughn era for Alabama baseball is in the books, and much was accomplished.
There were plenty of changes for the Alabama baseball program between the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Headlining those were a largely new coaching staff and an almost entirely new lineup. That includes Rob Vaughn, the man who recently finished his inaugural season at the helm.
The 2024 nonconference slate brought many positives, including two wins over Troy, the second of which came on the road with the Trojans as a ranked team. The Crimson Tide also defeated eventual regional host Arizona in Frisco on March 2, one day after run ruling future NCAA Tournament participant Indiana. Alabama rallied late on March 12 to give Knoxville Regional 2-seed Southern Miss a scare in Hattiesburg, falling 9-7.
Alabama managed to come away with a win in the finale of that fateful three-game set but was never quite the same after the fact. Holman and reigning national champion LSU came to Tuscaloosa in the following weekend and fell victim to a series loss, but the Crimson Tide would win just one more game after clinching that series on Mother's Day.
From an end-of-season standpoint, things did not end as Vaughn and his team hoped. A goal was to go to Omaha and the College World Series, something the 2023 team came close to doing and something that would have made the 2024 team the first Alabama squad of this century to accomplish. The Crimson Tide wound up losing five of its last six contests.
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