Alabama softball pitcher Montana Fouts threw her second perfect game of the 2023 season Friday night in a 9-0, run-rule win over Ole Miss.

Fouts retired all 18 batters she faced in Oxford, striking out six of them. The game ended after Alabama scored four runs in the top of the sixth inning and Ole Miss could not trim their deficit to less than eight runs in the bottom of the sixth.

Fouts’ perfect game is the fourth of her career and the third she pitched by herself. She threw four innings of a combined perfect game against Alabama State in 2021, then pitched her first solo perfect game during the 2021 Women’s College World Series against UCLA. Fouts’ most recent perfect game came March 5 of this season against Longwood.

Friday’s was the eighth solo perfect game in program history. Alabama’s first-ever perfect game was thrown by Stephanie VanBrakle in 2006, Sydney Littlejohn threw a pair during the 2015 season, and Alexis Osorio’s pitched one in 2017. Last season, Lexi Kilfoyl threw her first perfect game.

Alabama will play again Saturday and Sunday in Oxford to wrap up its regular season. The Tide (37-16) sit in fifth place in the SEC at 13-9 ahead of next week’s SEC tournament in Fayetteville.

Fouts, a fifth-year senior, will graduate from Alabama this weekend with a masters degree. She improved her record to 21-8 with 21 complete games, and 283 strikeouts in 192.1 innings pitched.

Fouts has been named the SEC’s pitcher of the week a school-record four times this season, and is part of USA Softball’s national team for the WSBC World Cup this July in Ireland.

Mike Rodak is an Alabama beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @mikerodak.