South Alabama (10-7, 5-1 SBC) vs. Southern Miss (13-4, 5-1 SBC)
Location: Mobile, Ala. (Jag Gym)

MATCH 1
Date: Friday, Oct. 17
First Serve: 6 p.m. CT
Live Stats: USAJaguars.com
Watch: ESPN+
Social: @SouthAlabamaVB

MATCH 2
Date: Saturday, Oct. 18
First Serve: 1 p.m. CT
Live Stats: USAJaguars.com
Watch: ESPN+
Social: @SouthAlabamaVB

THE SERIES
All-time series: 57 Meetings (USA, 36-21)
Home: 16-8 | Away: 13-13 | Neutral: 7-0
3-set: 12-9 | 4-set: 9-8 | 5-set: 6-4
Current Streak: USA 4
Last Meeting: South Alabama swept the series in Hattiesburg: 3-1 (10/18/24) and 3-0 (10/17/24)
Last Time in Mobile: South Alabama swept the series: 3-1 (9/22/23) and 3-0 (9/21/23)

MATCH THEMES AND PROMOS
•    Friday, October 17 | vs. Southern Miss: Party with the Jags/Student Appreciation Night
•    Promotion/Giveaway: One Ten Trucker Hats to the first 300 South Alabama students and 75 Megan Smith and Elyse Heffner trading cards

•    Saturday, October 18 | vs. Southern Miss: Dig Pink Game
•    Promotion/Giveaway: Pink T-Shirts are available to first 200 fans and 75 Megan Smith and Elyse Heffner trading cards

JAG NOTES
•    South Alabama (10-7, 5-1 SBC) enters the SBC series with Southern Miss tied with the Golden Eagles for the West Division lead
•    The Jaguars are coming off a series split at Texas State over the weekend where they fell to the Bobcats in five sets in the series opener, but bounced back to take the series finale, also in five sets
•    Cambria Gaier continued to show why she's one of the top freshmen in the conference against Texas State as she recorded 34 kills, averaged 3.40 kills per set, while leading the club with 41.0 points and 4.10 points per set
•    Gaier is averaging 3.06 kills per set, and the freshman outside hitter leads South with 27 aces and is fifth in the Sun Belt with 0.40 aces per set
•    Sarah currently tied for seventh in the Sun Belt in kills (3.44), and through the first three weeks of SBC action, she is averaging just under four kills per set (3.92), which is fourth most among offensive players
•    In conference play, Gooch holds a .369 hitting percentage and is also fourth in the league in points with 4.48 per set against conference foes
•    Gaier has led the club offensively in 10 matches, while Gooch has paced the club offensively eight times as well
•    Paced by the Jaguar duo, South Alabama holds a league-best .280 hitting percentage in conference play
•    Dalayla Blackwell returned to the Jaguar lineup from injury and made an immediate impact as the middle hitter recorded 19 total blocks and helped the front line post 37 in the series for a 3.70 bps average 
•    Blackwell is currently tied for seventh in the SBC in blocks (1.09) and is an offensive threat averaging just under two kills a set (1.87)
•    Redshirt freshman Alexa Strandberg has 67 total blocks this fall, including 16 solo blocks, and ranks 10th in the conference with 1.02 per set
•    Strandberg has led South in blocks in 11 matches and has had three or more blocks in nine of her last 13 and 12 of her 17 matches this season
•    As a team, South Alabama now ranks third in the conference in the category with 2.47 per set
•    Senior libero Briana Wilson is averaging 4.32 digs per set, which ranks third in the league

SERIES NOTES VS. SOUTHERN MISS
•    South Alabama and Southern Miss have met 57 previous times in the all-time series
•    The Jaguars hold a 36-21 series advantage in those meetings and are 16-8 in Mobile versus the Golden Eagles
•    Last season, South Alabama swept the regular-season series in Hattiesburg to extend its series win streak to four
•    Since USM joined the Sun Belt Conference, South has won five of the six meetings
•    Since the 2012 season the Jaguars have also won 11 of the last 13 series meetings

A QUICK LOOK AT THE GOLDEN EAGLES
•    Southern Miss (13-4, 5-1 SBC) enters series versus the Jags after sweeping its SBC series against Louisiana last weekend in Hattiesburg
•    The Golden Eagles opened the series with the Ragin' Cajuns with a 3-0 sweep, their 10th three-set victory this fall
•    Sadie McAda ranks fourth in the conference in both kills (4.02) and points (4.48)
•    Sunni Sheppard is fourth in the league in digs with 4.28, while McAda is seventh with 3.88 per set
•    USM leads the Sun Belt in both service aces (1.98) and digs (17.24), ranking 10th nationally in the latter category, and is second in the league in points (17.41)
•    Individually, Brynn Botkin leads the SBC in aces (0.60 per set) as she has 35 this season

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