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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. Authentic Jerseys For Sale . -- Matt Ryan needed one of the best games of his career to lead the Falcons and their depleted offence out of their three-game losing streak last week. Cheap Jerseys For Sale .S. hockey team after paying his dues as an NHL general manager for more than three decades and giving up a lot of his free time to help USA Hockey. https://www.jerseysforsalechina.com/ . - After leading the Saints to a fourth playoff appearance in five seasons, Drew Brees expressed confidence in the direction of his team and, perhaps more importantly, showed a willingness to listen to contract proposals if the team needs his help getting under the NFLs salary cap. Wholesale Jerseys For Sale . They hope to persuade the other team owners and commissioner Roger Goodell to put pressure on Redskins owner Daniel Snyder to drop the nickname they find offensive. "Given the way the meeting transpired," Ray Halbritter, an Oneida representative and leader of the "Change the Mascot Campaign," said Wednesday, "it became somewhat evident they were defending the continued use of the name. Stitched Jerseys For Sale . Thousands of fans at Mosaic Stadium will be cozying up to each other in an effort to stay warm in chilly temperatures and block the Prairie wind that locals say can knock your socks off. GUANGZHOU, China -- Defending champion Jelena Jankovic marched into the second round of the Guangzhou Open by pasting Chinese qualifier You Xiaodi 6-2, 6-1 on Tuesday.The second-seeded Serbian set up a second-round match against Rebecca Peterson of Sweden.Unseeded Anett Kontaveit and Peng Shuai also moved ahead after upsetting seventh-seeded Katerina Siniakova and eighth-seeded Zheng Saisai, respectively,, in their first-round matches.ddddddddddddhe 2013 finalist Vania King made an early exit after losing to Sofia Shapatava of Georgia 6-3, 7-5.Other winners were Switzerlands Viktorija Golubic, Germanys Sabine Lisicki, Uzbekistans Nigina Abduraimova and Belarus Olga Govortsova. ' ' '