Jess Smith

We appreciate you @UNABaseball 🤝 Your new home is sick Roar Lions and Golden Tigers

Everybody wants discipline… until discipline gets loud.
Everybody wants toughness… until toughness gets uncomfortable. Hard coaching isn’t abuse.
Hard coaching is correction.
Hard coaching is standards.
Hard coaching is loving a kid enough not to let him stay average. If a coach is demanding effort, detail, toughness, and accountability bothers you… that probably says more about today’s culture than it does the coach.

“Now we’re just supposed to hug and kiss everybody. You know what? Do your job right. Go to class and you won’t hear about not going to class. Kids have so many distractions they don’t stay focused on the task at hand. Accountability is going to be big until I leave,” Tom Izzo

Uncommitted ‘26 that is a winner! Can swing it Can defend with the best Can give you innings from two arm slots And brings infectious energy daily!

If this happened in high school, the AD/superintendent is getting a phone call seconds later. Bravo for tough coaching! Believe in your players. Hold them accountable. Be hard on them but love them the same.

#4💣

Dawg

Dude’s on a tear right now! Took down 4A #1 Deshler on the mound last night with another 2 big hits at the plate Congrats, Jack!

You can protect their feelings, or you can prepare them for life, you don’t get both. If correction offends them, competition will expose them.

3B Brayden Hatton (@BraydenHatton20, 2026) works this one to the RCF gap for a firm single. Russellville with a pair on here in the second, 0-0 score. #ALHS26 || @PB_Uncommitted

2B Houston Askew (2026) shoots a single back up the middle off the glove of the diving SS. Golden Tigers score a run on this single from Askew and plate another later in the frame. 2-0 score. B2. #ALHS26 || @PB_Uncommitted

1B/RHP Tripp Cleveland (@TrippCleveland3, 2027) finds a barrel here as this one is sent to the warning track in LCF but the left fielder runs it down. Golden Tigers strand a pair in the top of the third, 2-0 score. #ALHS26 || @PB_Uncommitted

DH Jackson Smith (2027) on the barrel again here as he picks up his second hit today. Ropes a single through the PS for a knock. Russellville w/ a pair on and two-outs in the sixth, leading 3-2. #ALHS26 || @PB_Uncommitted

SS Caleb Hawkins (@CalebBHawkins2, 2028) drops one down the RF line for a single, his second hit of the game. Golden Tigers looking for an insurance run as they have a pair on, leading 3-2 in the top of the seventh. #ALHS26

𝐓𝐈𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 ‼️‼️ INF/RHP Jackson Smith (2027) sends a backside triple into the RCF gap that brings home a pair. Golden Tigers have the go-ahead run 90 feet away. 2-2 score, T6. #ALHS26 | @PB_Uncommitted

C/3B Tristan Ray (@TristanRay21, 2027) with a leadoff rope to LF to start the sixth. Golden Tigers with a pair on and no outs, looking to tie things up. Russellville trails 2-0. #ALHS26 | @PB_Uncommitted

1B Tripp Cleveland (@TrippCleveland3, 2027) protects here with 2K, throws the hands at this offering and singles through the right side. Golden Tigers threatening in the fourth as Cleveland is in scoring position with one-out in the frame. #ALHS26 | @PB_Uncommitted

OF Malaki Groce (2026) widens up the stance with two-strikes and sends a firm single back up the middle. Still knotted up at 0-0, T3. #ALHS26 | @PB_Uncommitted

Grand slam to take the lead by 1 late in the game . 💣#3 @dlangston22 @averagejonesIII @NWSCC_Baseball

SS/RHP Ty Engelthaler (@Ty_E22_, 2026) shortens up the approach for a knock back up the middle. Simple and direct with the barrel, mostly flat. @RussellvilleBB He’s left stranded, headed to the 5th still 8-3 Tuscaloosa County. @CACCThe recruit. #ALSouth26