MOBILE, Ala. – University of South Alabama softball hosts McNeese State, of the Southland Conference, on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Jaguar Field.
 
The midweek, non-conference clash was originally scheduled for a 6 p.m. start, but first pitch has been moved up due to the threat of adverse weather conditions later in the evening.
 
Links to live stats, video and ticket information can be found by accessing the Jaguar softball schedule page. In-game Twitter updates are provided for each USA contest via the program's official handle, @USAJagsSoftball.
 
USA (18-10, 6-2 SBC) brings an eight-game winning streak into Wednesday's contest after defeating UAB last Tuesday, 3-1, in Birmingham and sweeping a three-game Sun Belt Conference series at Appalachian State.
 
McNeese State (22-6, 9-0 Southland) has won six in a row after sweeping Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Houston Baptist in a pair of league series. After sweeping Sam Houston State to open conference play on March 11-12, the Cowgirls went to extra innings with No. 5 Louisiana-Lafayette, falling 5-4 in the ninth.
 
South Alabama holds a 3-1 series record versus McNeese State, and the Jaguars are 1-0 versus the Cowgirls in Mobile, dating back to a 4-1 win at the 2014 Mardi Gras Invitational.
 
USA sophomore right-hander Devin Brown was named SBC Pitcher of the Week for the second week in a row on Monday after going 2-0 with a save and 30 strikeouts in 16 shutout innings. The Mobile, Ala., native fanned three of the six batters she faced in two relief innings at UAB on Tuesday to pick up her second save of the year, twirled a one-hitter with 14 strikeouts in game one at Appalachian State on Friday and threw her second no-hitter in a week in game three versus the Mountaineers with 13 strikeouts on Saturday.
 
On Saturday, Brown was one walk away from pocketing her second perfect game this year, after recording the feat versus Louisiana-Monroe on March 20.
 
Brown has not allowed a run in the last 30 2/3 innings, dating back to the first win in USA's streak, a 5-1 victory over Southern Miss on March 16, and she has given up only two hits in the last 26 innings.
 
In the national rankings, Brown is currently third in strikeouts (176), strikeouts per seven innings (11.7) and shutouts (7) and 10^th in hits allowed per seven innings (3.84).
 
Emily Messer leads the Jags at the plate with the fourth-best batting average (.505) in the NCAA. The senior has the second-most hits (50) and triples (4) in the SBC and also resides among the top five in on-base percentage (.550), total bases (65) and stolen bases (13).
 
South Alabama is batting .299 as a team, slugging .390 with a .389 on-base percentage. The Jags bring a 7-5 home record into Wednesday's contest.
 
 
McNeese State is batting .327 as a team and is slugging .516 collectively with a .418 on-base percentage and 78 stolen bases.
 
Erika Piancastelli leads the Cowgirls at the plate with a .438 batting average, 34 runs, 35 hits, 14 home runs and 31 RBI. She is slugging over one-thousand with a .570 on-base percentage. Emily Vincent is 7-2 in the circle with a team-low 1.70 ERA and a team-high 71 strikeouts.
 
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