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MOBILE, Ala. – No. 19 University of South Alabama softball welcomes Georgia State this weekend for a three-game Sun Belt Conference series at Jaguar Field, the last full league series the Jaguars will host this season.
 
In respect to Easter Sunday, a Friday doubleheader at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. precedes Saturday's finale, slated for a noon start. Links to live stats, ticket information and play-by-play audio, provided by Braden Cheek as part of Jaguar All-Access, can be found above.
 
USA (32-8) returns to Baton Rouge, La., on Wednesday for a midweek clash with the LSU Tigers before traveling to Bowling Green, Ky., for a three-game set next weekend at Western Kentucky and rounds out the 2014 campaign with a doubleheader versus Troy in Mobile on May 3.
 
No midweek contest was scheduled this week for the Jaguars, who return home after dropping a Sunday rubber match at then-No. 18 Louisiana-Lafayette last weekend. USA bounced back from a 6-2 game one loss with an 8-4 victory last Saturday before falling, 5-1, to the Ragin' Cajuns in the series decider.
 
It marked the second straight league series lost for USA, following a two-game skid at Texas on April 5-6.
 
The Jaguars are currently third in SBC Standings with a 9-4 (0.692) record to show. Western Kentucky is runner-up to league leaders ULL (30-7-1; 11-1 SBC) with an 8-3 (0.727) conference record.
 
Georgia State is currently fourth in Sun Belt standings in the club's first year in the conference with a 7-5 league record after the Panthers swept Texas State by a combined three-game score of 21-5 in Atlanta, Ga., last weekend. GSU was powered to a 4-1 week last week by sophomore shortstop Taylor Anderson's four home runs, four RBI and nine runs scored, good enough for her second SBC Player-of-the-Week honor this year.
 
By virtue of last week's record, the Panthers enter the series at South Alabama on a four-game win streak. GSU is 7-9 on the road this season.
 
USA's counter to the reeling Panthers will be its 13-0 home record and the NCAA's best pitching staff in terms of ERA, which leads the nation for the fifth straight week in the category, now boasting a 1.16.
 
In the NCAA's statistics release on Monday, Farish Beard ranked third in hits allowed per seven innings, giving up slightly more than three per game, and ninth in strikeouts per seven innings (10.1). Counterpart Hannah Campbell, who picked up a win and save last week, is now fourth in the country in ERA (0.91) and seventh in walks allowed per seven innings (0.86).
 
The staff leads the SBC in ERA, opposing batting average (.171), strikeouts (323), strikeouts looking (86), wins (32), fewest hits allowed (163), fewest runs allowed (60), earned runs allowed (44), fewest walks allowed (49), fewest doubles allowed (20) and fewest home runs allowed (10).
 
Conversely, USA is no higher than fifth in the league in all offensive categories aside from triples (1^st; 11), hit by pitch (2^nd; 38), sacrifice flies (T-2^nd; 11) and stolen bases (3^rd; 59), while Georgia State leads the conference in hits (350) and falls among the top three in batting average (2^nd; .296), slugging percentage (2^nd; .464), on-base percentage (3^rd; .370), runs scored (2^nd; 232), RBI (2^nd; 214), doubles (T-2^nd; 47), triples (2^nd; 10), home runs (2^nd; 44), sac bunts (1^st; 33) and total bases (2^nd; 549).
 
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