MOBILE, Ala. – As the University of South Alabama baseball team heads into the final series of the regular season at Troy this weekend, junior outfielder Dylan Hardy visited to record this week's episode of "Inside JagNation," the official podcast of Jaguar Athletics.

The D'Iberville, Miss., resident currently leads the Jags and is in the top five in the Sun Belt Conference with a .348 batting average; he also stands among the league leaders with 53 runs scored, 17 stolen bases and 99 total bases.  After hitting a team-leading .363 as a sophomore in 2017 — recording 53 runs, 17 extra-base hits, 30 runs batted in and 18 steals — Hardy was a second-team all-conference selection before going on to be named to the all-tournament team at both the SBC Championship and the NCAA Hattiesburg Regional.

In nearly three full seasons with the program, he has helped South to a 111-64 mark in all contests while going 60-26 in Sun Belt play as the Jags have claimed one league regular season title, one SBC Tournament championship and appeared in an NCAA Regional each of the last two years.

Click here for Episode 87 of "Inside JagNation"

In this episode Hardy explains what he believes will be the key to the Jaguars having success at Troy and in the postseason, and how the team has had to overcome numerous injuries this spring.  He also talks about the biggest reason for his improvement following his freshman season at USA, his reaction to earning postseason honors at the end of last year, what he believes are the keys to his success on the field and his thoughts on the possibility of being selected in the upcoming Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.  Hardy discusses his start in baseball, when he realized playing at the collegiate level was a possibility, the recruiting process and how he ended up joining the Jag program, and what he would like to do professionally when he is done playing.

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