MOBILE, Ala. | After opening conference play at home over the weekend, South Alabama will head back out on the road and begin a four-game road swing Wednesday night with a midweek contest versus No. 23 Auburn (20-8, 0-3 SEC). First pitch versus the Tigers is set for 6 p.m. at Jane B. Moore Field.

Live stats and the SECNetwork+ link for the game against the Tigers can be accessed on the schedule page.

South Alabama (14-15, 3-0 SBC) enters the midweek road match up versus Auburn after sweeping its Sun Belt Conference series with James Madison in Mobile.

On Tuesday, Gabby Stagner was named the SBC Player of the Week for the third time in her career after leading the Jags to the sweep of JMU. Stagner (.375) leads the team in several offensive categories as she has eight home runs, holds a .763 slugging percentage and a team-high 29 RBI. She is tied for first in triples (3), and ranks among the league leaders in home runs (second), OPS (fifth), slugging percentage (sixth), hits (eighth) and on-base percentage (ninth). Stagner currently ranks second all-time at South Alabama in career home runs (35), just one shy of matching Kamdyn Kvistad's program mark. Stagner has nine multi-RBI games this season and is tied for the team lead in multi-hit games with eight.

Presley Lively is also batting .313 and the true freshman leads the Sun Belt triples (3) and walks (19), while her 14 stolen bases are second-most in the league, as well as her runs scored (30). Lively has scored two or more runs in nine games this spring. Seven of Lively's hits have gone for extra bases, including an inside-the-park home run, and her and Stagner's three triples are tied for 27th in the NCAA. Lively ranks in the Top 50 in the NCAA in runs (T-43rd) and stolen bases (T-44th). 

Olivia Branstetter (.289) is second on the club in RBI with 16 and her 17 walks are second most. Sidney Lee (.313) leads the club with eight doubles, which are tied for third in the league.

Led by Lively, South currently leads the SBC and 19th nationally in walks with 114. As a team, South is tied with Marshall for the league-lead in triples (10) and leads the conference in sacrifice flies (13), is tied for second in hit-by-pitch (27), and Top 5 in runs scored (154), on-base percentage (.390) and RBI (115).

GAME INFORMATION
Site: Jane B. Moore Field (Auburn, Ala.)
Date: March 19, 2025
Time: 6 p.m.

SOUTH ALABAMA
NFCA: -- | USA: -- | SA: -- | D1: -- | RPI: 114
Record: 14-15, 3-0 SBC

Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP): .269 / .422 / .387
Team ERA: 5.53

AUBURN
NFCA: 23 | USA: -- | SA: -- | D1: -- | RPI: 5
Record: 20-8, 0-3 SEC

Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP): .270 / .466 / .381
Team ERA: 3.23

THE SERIES
All-time series: AU leads 6-2
In Mobile: AU leads 2-0
In Auburn: AU leads 4-2
At Neutral Site: --
Current Streak: USA 1

NOTES
•    Auburn is the fourth team from the SEC that the Jaguars will have faced this season
•    The two clubs will also meet each other in Mobile next month
•    Branstetter enters the game with a 16-game reached base safely streak, which is the third double-digit streak in the category this season by a Jag
•    Lively has scored at least one run in five-straight games, compiling a total of seven runs over that stretch
•    Stagner is one RBI from setting the new career record at South and one home run from tying Kvistad's career mark of 36
•    Stagner is tied for the lead in RBI, and ranks in the Top 10 in slugging percentage (second), home runs (second), extra-base hits (second), doubles (t-sixth) and triples (t-ninth)
•    Her 35 multi-RBI games are second most in the career category, while her 35 multi-hit games are tied for 13th most on the list 

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