MOBILE, Ala. – The University of South Alabama softball team will continue Sun Belt Conference action on Wednesday with a midweek contest at in-state rival Troy.  First pitch versus the Trojans is set for 6 p.m. at the Troy Softball Complex.

Game Notes (PDF)

GAME: 44 | AT TROY
Wed., April 18 | 6 p.m.
Venue: Troy Softball Complex | Troy, Ala.

GAME INFORMATION
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South Alabama JAGUARS
NFCA: -- | USA: -- | RPI: 53
Record: 22-21, 7-10 SBC
Head Coach: Becky Clark (Mobile, '95)
Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP) – .255 / .355 / .336
Runs Per Game: 3.7
Runs Per Game Allowed: 3.5

Troy TROJANS
NFCA: -- | USA: -- | RPI: 97
Record: 27-17, 11-7 SBC
Head Coach: Beth Mullins (UAB, '04)
Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP) – .276 / .410 / .354
Runs Per Game: 5.0
Runs Per Game Allowed: 3.4

SCOUTING THE JAGUARS    
– South Alabama (22-21, 7-10 SBC) comes into the midweek contest after taking two of three from Sun Belt foe ULM over the weekend in Mobile.
– After splitting the first two games of the series, South Alabama picked up a 3-1 win in Sunday's finale.  Kaleigh Todd was 2-for-3 with two runs scored and Brittani Reid recorded a two-run home run in the bottom of the first.
– Todd etched her named into the South Alabama record books on Sunday as she set one all-time mark and tied two more.  With her two hits, the senior second baseman recorded her team-leading 14th multi-hit game of the season and passed Brittany Fowler's career mark as she now has 58.  The sixth-inning single to center also tied Fowler's career hits mark of 213.
– Todd also tied Evelyne Pare's stolen base mark as she swiped her 69th career base.  Todd leads the team and is ninth in the Sun Belt this season in stolen bases with 12.
– Todd enters the game against Troy with a 19-game reached base safely streak – which is tied for the seventh-longest streak in program history and is the longest streak since Emily Messer's 26-game streak set during the 2016 season.
– The Bessemer native is tied for eighth in the league in batting average and her 51 hits are tied for fourth-most.  Todd is hitting a team-best .448 in league play and since the series finale at Georgia Southern on March 18 and over her last 16 games, which included a 14-game hit streak, she has batted .517 (31-for-60), scored 17 runs and recorded 11 multi-hit games.
– Kristian Foster is tied for fifth in the Sun Belt in doubles with nine, while she leads the team in RBI with 24.
– Megan Harris and B. Reid are both hitting .306, which is second on the Jaguar roster.
– B. Reid leads the team with 16 extra-base hits. Her six home runs lead the club and her seven doubles are second-most. Her 21 RBI are second on the team, while Kamdyn Kvistad and Haleigh Lowe have 18 and 17, respectively.
– Devin Brown (14-11) picked up both wins in the ULM series and allowed just one earned run to the Warhawks, while striking out 14 in her seven innings of work.  She enters play with a 2.03 earned run average and 164 strikeouts. She has 18 complete games on the year and holds five shutouts – four solo and one combined.  
– Brown recorded her fifth double-digit strikeout game of the season in the series opener against ULM and extended her program mark to 37.
– Brown is second in the league in innings pitched (168.2), strikeouts looking (47) and strikeouts. Her strikeout tally is 25th in the latest NCAA rankings.

SCOUTING THE TROJANS    
– Troy (27-17, 11-7 SBC) enters play this week after picking up its second-straight SBC series sweep over the weekend.  The sweep of Coastal Carolina extended the Trojans win streak to seven games.
- Troy, who has also won eight of its last nine, currently sits in third place in the league standings with a half-game lead over UTA.
– Of the Trojans 27 wins this season, 11 have come on their home field.
– Offensively, Troy is led by Katie Webb (.354) and Logan Calhoun (.347).  Webb is 10th in the league in average and the duo also ranks among the SBC leaders in hits Calhoun (52 – third) and Webb (51 – T-fourth).
– Webb is also third in RBI (34) and fourth in total bases (78).  Calhoun leads the conference in runs scored with 41.
– As a team, Troy leads the Sun Belt in doubles with 63.  Webb (12) and Calhoun (11), rank first and second, respectively, in that category.
– Troy is also second in the SBC in runs scored (218) and RBI (194).  The Trojans lead the conference in fielding percentage (.975), which also ranks 16th in the NCAA.  Troy has also turned 22 double plays this season, which is just two behind UTA's league leading tally of 24.
– Freshman pitcher Annie Willis (14-4) has been outstanding in the circle for the Trojans this season as she leads the team in ERA (1.99), complete games (10), shutouts (5) and strikeouts (94).
– Peyton Glover has also been solid as she enters play this week with a 2.94 earned run average and a 9-5 record.  She is right behind Willis with 91 strikeouts.
– Willis is second in the conference in wins, third in strikeouts and fourth in opposing batting average (.218), while she has allowed the fewest runs (42) and earned runs (34) in the league, as well as the second-fewest hits (97).
– Glover also ranks among the conference top 10 in ERA, opposing batting average, innings pitched, strikeouts and strikeouts looking.  Her five saves are the most in the Sun Belt.

THE SERIES VS. TROY    
– The meeting between South Alabama and Troy will mark the 33rd in the all-time series between the two clubs.
– The Jaguars have taken 22 of the previous 32 meetings, including the last eight in the series.
- During the eight-game win streak, South has outscored Troy 39-10 and shutout the Trojans in three of the last four meetings.
– South Alabama holds an 11-5 record in the series in meetings that have come on the Trojans' home field.  USA has won five straight on the road to Troy.
– The two clubs are also so scheduled to meet on the final day of the regular season (May 6) in Mobile in a doubleheader.

INSIDE THE SERIES VS. TROY    
Series: 22-10 (H: 11-5 / A: 11-5 / N: 0-0)
Sun Belt Conference Games: 21-10 (H: 11-5 / A: 10-5 / N: 0-0)
Sun Belt Tournament Games: 1-0 (H: 0-0 / A: 1-0 / N: 0-0)
Extra-Inning Games: 2-1 (H: 2-1 / A: 0-0 / N: 0-0)
Run-Rule Games: 2-0 (H: 2-0 / A: 0-0 / N: 0-0)
NCAA Tournament Games: 0-0 (H: 0-0 / A: 0-0 / N: 0-0)
First Meeting: 5/5/07
Last Meeting: 5/7/17
Longest South Alabama Streak: 8 ('15-'17)
Longest Troy Streak: 5 ('08-'09)
Current Streak: 8 by South Alabama
Last 5 – 5-0
Last 10 – 9-1

MIDWEEK MAGIC    
– Midweek games this season for the Jaguars have been good for South Alabama this season.  In their nine midweek games this season, the Jags have won seven, including six in a row heading into Wednesday night's contest at Troy.
– South is also 3-0 this season in road midweek games.

THEY SAID IT
Head coach Becky Clark
-On midweek conference game against Troy: "Every conference series is big for us.  This one is a little unique in the fact that we split it up into a midweek and then doubleheader at the end of the regular season, so it is important for us to get the series started off the right way Wednesday night.  I thought Sunday's game against ULM was a great team win and look for us to continue that type of team effort into this week."

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