After the visiting team scored three runs in the top of the 10th inning, an upset win was a distant dream, but the Mississippi State University fans stayed to support the team. Then the unthinkable for State fans but the thinkable for Bulldog players and coaches happened. However, this time the come-from-behind win was not at Dudy Noble Field.
Sunday afternoon the MSU softball team duplicated the Diamond Dogs’ Saturday night extra-inning heroics by scoring four runs in the bottom of the 10th to knock off No. 2 Alabama 4-3. 
This time, though, the Dogs clinched the series and celebrated a little more enthusiastically. After a dog pile on the field and singing the fight song, the softball team ran to Chadwick Lake and jumped in.
Head Coach Vann Stuedeman said assistant coach Beth Mullins said all year that when the team won a series, she would jump in the lake. But after a series win over the top team in the league, several other coaches and players joined Mullins.
“I’ve been saying all year ‘Something good is going to happen. Everybody just believe it.’ They felt it and made it happen,” a lake-soaked Stuedeman said. “I just think that is an incredible series. They (Alabama) are ranked that because they deserve it, and for us to come out and battle like we did — I’m just really proud of the players and proud of the sport of softball in general that we can go 10 innings and duel it out.”
With the win, MSU moved to 32-14, which is tied for the best program record through 46 games. Taking the series from softball powerhouse Alabama gives the Dogs even more credibility in a conference that has eight