MOBILE, Ala. | South Alabama will head to Louisiana this weekend for a huge Sun Belt Conference series. The three-game series is set to get underway Saturday with a doubleheader at Yvette Girouard Field at Lamson Park First pitch of game one is set for 2 p.m. with game two to immediately follow. The series finale is set for Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

South Alabama (25-10) and Louisiana (27-10) enter the key SBC series tied for second in the league standings with an 8-1 record.

GAME INFORMATION
Site: Yvette Girouard Field at Lamson Park (Lafayette, La.)
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THE SERIES
All-time series: Louisiana leads 42-11
In Mobile: Louisiana leads 17-6
In Lafayette: Louisiana leads 21-2
At Neutral Site: Louisiana leads 4-3
Current Streak: Louisiana 20

Game 1
Date: 4/8
Time: 2 pm
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Game 2
Date: 4/8
Time: 4 pm
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Game 3
Date: 4/9
Time: 2:30 pm
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 NOTES
•    The 53 series meetings between South Alabama and Louisiana mark the most by the Jags against any Sun Belt conference opponent
•    Meredith Keel enters the weekend series having had a hit in nine of her last 12 and reached base safely in 12 of 13 while Victoria Ortiz has had a hit in 14 of her last 17
•    Ortiz has driven in at least one run nine of her last 12 amassing 20 RBI
•    Over the last 16 games, Ortiz has recorded seven multi-hit games, had 11 extra-base hits, scored 13 runs and driven in 23 runs
•    Mackenzie Brasher has had a hit in 10 straight and 13 of her last 14, while reaching base safely in 16 of her last 17 contests, and scored at least one run in nine of her last 12
•    Brasher (52) is two stolen bases from moving into a tie with Jenny Stevens (54, 2007-08, '11) for fourth
•    Ortiz (150) and Brasher (150) are close to moving into the top 10 on South's career hits chart – 154, Meghan Collins (2010-13) 10th
•    Olivia Lackie – the fourth-time Sun Belt Pitcher of the Week – has been credited with the win in six of her last seven starts
•    Since her Feb. 17 start vs. Mississippi Valley State, Lackie has allowed one or fewer runs in 12 of her last 16 starts, tossing eight solo shutouts and three combined over that stretch
•    Lackie (593) is seven strikeouts shy of reaching 600 for her career and 10 shy of matching Farish Beard's (2012-15) total of 603, which ranks fourth all-time at South
•    As a staff, USA has a 1.61 ERA and is holding opponents to a .193 batting average – which both rank second in the SBC - while the Jags are fourth in the conference in strikeouts (242)
•    The Jags are tied with UCLA for seventh nationally in ERA, and eighth with the Bruins for shutouts (14)
•    Jenna Hardy (11-6, 2 SV) has a 1.64 earned run average and has struck out 99 in her 111.0 innings of work
•    Lackie ranks second in the SBC in opposing batting average and strikeouts, and third in ERA and wins, while Hardy is fifth in wins and ERA, eighth in strikeouts and ninth in opposing batting average
•    Lackie is tied for the NCAA lead in solo shutouts (8) with Marshall's Sydney Nester and Kentucky's Stephanie Schoonover

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