GAME 22-24 | AT COASTAL CAROLINA SERIES
Venue: St. John Stadium | Conway, S.C.

SERIES SCHEDULE
Game 1: March 20, 2021 | 3 p.m. (CT)
Game 2: March 20, 2021 | 12 p.m. (CT)
Game 3: March 21, 2021 | 11 a.m. (CT)

GENERAL INFORMATION
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South Alabama JAGUARS
NFCA: RV | USA: -- | SBA: -- | D1S: --
Record: 13-8, 3-0 SBC
Head Coach: Becky Clark (Mobile, '95)

Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP): .268 / .414 / .344
Team ERA: 2.55

Coastal Carolina CHANTICLEERS
NFCA: -- | USA: -- | SBA: -- | D1S: --
Record: 7-9, 1-2 SBC
Head Coach:  Kelley Green (NACWAA/HERS Institute, '95)

Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP): .265 / .417 / .345
Team ERA: 6.16

SCOUTING THE JAGUARS    
– South Alabama (13-8, 3-0 SBC) enters the weekend series at Coastal Carolina after sweeping its first Sun Belt series since 2018, defeating App State; 1-0, 7-4 and 4-0 this past weekend.
– USA was supposed to have hosted Southern Miss on Wednesday, but the game was canceled due to weather.
– Freshman pitcher Olivia Lackie (9-3) tossed a pair of shutouts in the series with the Mountaineers and recorded her first career no-hitter in Sunday's finale.
– For the series, Lackie allowed just one hit (.023 opp. batting avg.), walked two and struck out 31. She struck out multiple batters in all but the third inning of game one of the series, and struck out the side on four occasions.
– In addition to the two shutouts, Lackie also set new season highs in strikeouts in back-to-back outings with 15 and 16, respectively.
– Lackie holds a 1.84 earned run average and ranks fourth nationally in strikeouts with 117. She holds four shutouts this spring and has five double-digit strikeout games.
– Fellow pitcher Allie Hughen also holds an ERA under two (1.94) coming into the week.
– Offensively, South has five players batting .300 or better and are led at the plate by Abby Krzywiecki (.406). The senior has two home runs and 11 RBI with a .656 slugging percentage.
– Krzywiecki enters the week riding a career-best eight-game hit streak.
– Since moving into the leadoff role six games ago, Caroline Nichols (.400) has nine hits and like Krzywiecki has batted .429 over that stretch.
– Mackenzie Brasher (.356) and Meredith Keel (.338) lead the club with seven multi-hit games this spring.
– Kennedy Cronan leads the team in doubles (7) and RBI (13), while Kamdyn Kvistad and Keel each have six doubles.
– Of Kvistad's (.308) 16 hits, 11 have gone for extra bases, including five home runs. The senior has also driven in 12 runs and a team-best .712 slugging percentage.

THE SERIES VS. COASTAL CAROLINA    
– South Alabama and Coastal Carolina have met 11 previous times in the all-time series.
– The Chanticleers hold a 6-5 series advantage and have won two of the three meetings in Conway.
– CCU has also taken six of the nine Sun Belt Conference games in the series, which dates back to the 2017 season.
– Five of the last six series meetings have been decided by three runs or less.
– The two clubs first met during the 2009 season with the Jags winning both (12-1 and 10-0) in five innings at the Florida Lipton Invitational in Gainesville, Fla.

INSIDE THE SERIES VS. THE CHANTICLEERS    
Series: 5-6 (H: 2-4 / A: 1-2 / N: 2-0)
Sun Belt Conference Games: 3-6 (H: 2-4 / A:1-2 / N: 0-0)
Sun Belt Tournament Games: 0-0 (H: 0-0 / A: 0-0 / N: 0-0)
Extra-Inning Games: 0-1 (H: 0-0 / A: 0-1 / N: 0-0)
Run-Rule Games: 2-0 (H: 0-0 / A: 0-0 / N: 2-0)
NCAA Tournament Games: 0-0 (H: 0-0 / A: 0-0 / N: 0-0)
First Meeting: 2/15/09
Last Meeting: 4/7/19
Longest South Alabama Streak: 3 ('09-'17)
Longest Coastal Carolina Streak: 4 ('18-'19)
Current Streak: 4 by Coastal Carolina
Last 5 – 1-4
Last 10 – 4-6

SBC ROAD OPENERS AND SERIES    
– In its 14 previous seasons in the Sun Belt Conference, South Alabama holds a 7-6 mark in the first game of its first league road series and has won six SBC opening road series and tied one series.
– South Alabama was scheduled to play at Texas State, but the series was cancelled after the season came to an end due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
– This will mark the first time that South Alabama has met Coastal Carolina to open road conference play.
– South has dropped its last five SBC road openers and last five SBC opening series after being swept by UTA during the 2019 season.

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