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MOBILE, Ala. – No. 20 University of South Alabama softball travels to Western Kentucky this weekend for a three-game Sun Belt Conference series between a pair of teams currently battling for solid footing behind league-leader No. 16 Louisiana-Lafayette with the regular season drawing to a close. 
 
A Saturday doubleheader at WKU Softball Complex beginning at 1 p.m. precedes Sunday's finale, set for a noon start.

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Though the Lady Toppers took last year's SBC series two games to one, it was the Jaguars who came out on top at the most crucial point of the season, the 2013 SBC Tournament Championship.
 
The Jaguars got scores from Emily Messer and Stephanie Pilkington off RBI from Alex Breeden and former USA standout Brittany Fowler, and Hannah Campbell struck out three Lady Toppers to no walks, while scattering seven hits.
 
Memories from that game will better serve the Jaguars this weekend, as the club might rather forget its 6-1 defeat at LSU on Wednesday, which marked the largest margin of defeat for any Jaguar team since falling, 6-0, to eventual-Women's College World Series champion Alabama in 2012.
 
The Lady Toppers are 11-9 at home this season, while USA is 7-6 on the road.
 
On the heels of a three-game losing streak, Western Kentucky enters the weekend 31-17-1 and 10-5 in Sun Belt Conference play, a win behind USA at third in the league. The Lady Toppers swept their first two league series against Troy and UT-Arlington before Louisiana-Lafayette took three games in that set. WKU clinched each of its series versus Texas State and Louisiana-Monroe and will round out the season with a series against Georgia State.
 
WKU's marquee win this season was a 3-2 victory over Tennessee on March 8 when the Lady Vols were ranked No. 2 in the nation.
 
Olivia Watkins leads the Lady Toppers at the plate with a .445 average on 73-of-164 hitting. Watkins is also slugging .506 and has stolen 50 bases this season. Amanda Thomas leads the club with 43 RBI, while Preslie Cruce and Brooke Holloway are tied for the team lead in homers with five apiece.
 
Emily Rousseau is 16-12 in the circle for WKU with a 2.73 ERA, having struck out 149 to 45 walks and allowed 83 runs (73 earned) in 187 1/3 innings pitched. Counterpart Hannah Miniard is 13-5 with a 3.25 ERA on 125 strikeouts to 87 walks and 54 runs allowed (53 earned) in 114 innings.
 
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