Tuscaloosa RegionalWhat: One of the 16 four-team, on-campus tournaments on the opening weekend of the NCAA softball tournamentFormat: Double eliminationAt stake: A berth in the Super RegionalsFriday's openers: Gophers (54-3) vs. Louisiana Tech (37-22); Albany (27-16) at No. 16 seed Alabama (42-16).
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The Gophers played with more urgency, but it wasn’t enough to keep them from another conference sweep, and they lost LJ Mooney to injury in the process.