MOBILE, Ala. | South Alabama will continue its road swing with a three-game Sun Belt Conference road series versus Georgia State this weekend. Game one of the series is scheduled for a 5 p.m. (CT) first pitch at the Bob E. Heck Softball Complex. Game two of the series is set for Saturday at 2 p.m. (CT), with the series finale set for Sunday at 11 a.m. (CT).
Live stats and the ESPN+ links for all of South Alabama's games can be accessed on the schedule page.
South Alabama (14-16, 3-0 SBC) enters the road conference series versus Georgia State after dropping a heartbreaker at No. 23 on Wednesday night. The Jaguars jumped out to a 5-0 lead, but the Tigers rallied back and took the game on a walk-off home run in the bottom of the seventh.
Gabby Stagner (.396) – the reigning SBC Player of the Week – leads the team in several offensive categories as she has eight home runs, holds a .738 slugging percentage and a team-high 29 RBI. She is tied for second in triples (3), and also ranks among the league leaders in home runs (second), RBI (fourth), slugging percentage (sixth), OPS (seventh), hits (ninth) 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 .310 and the true freshman leads the Sun Belt triples (4), is second in walks (19), while her 14 stolen bases are third-most in the league, as well as her runs scored (30). Lively has scored two or more runs in nine games this spring. Eight of Lively's hits have gone for extra bases, including an inside-the-park home run. Her four triples are tied for 13th in the NCAA, and the true freshman also ranks in the Top 50 in the NCAA in stolen bases (T-32nd) and runs (T-50th).
Sidney Lee (.296) leads the club with eight doubles, which are tied for third in the league.
Olivia Branstetter (.291) is second on the club in RBI with 17 and her 17 walks are second most.
Led by Lively, South is currently tied for the SBC lead with ULM and and is tied for 21st nationally in walks with 116. As a team, South leads the league in triples (11) and sacrifice flies (13), is second in hit-by-pitch (28), and Top 5 in runs scored (152) and RBI (133).
SOUTH ALABAMA
NFCA: -- |
USA: -- |
SA: -- |
D1: -- |
RPI: 125
Record: 14-16, 3-0 SBC
Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP): .265 / .415 / .382
Team ERA: 5.60
GEORGIA STATE
NFCA: -- |
USA: -- |
SA: -- |
D1: -- |
RPI: 177
Record: 8-22, 0-3 SBC
Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP): .234 / .344 / .316
Team ERA: 5.27
SERIES INFORMATION
Site: Bob E. Heck Softball Complex (Decatur, Ga.)
SERIES SCHEDULE
Game 1: March 21, 2025 | 5 p.m. (CT)
Game 2: March 22, 2025 | 2 p.m. (CT)
Game 3: March 23, 2025 | 11 a.m. (CT)
THE SERIES
Overall: USA leads 21-8
In Mobile: USA leads 11-3
In Decatur: USA leads 8-4
At Neutral Site: USA leads 2-1
Current Streak: USA 8
NOTES
• In its 18 previous seasons in the Sun Belt Conference, South Alabama holds a 11-6 mark in the first game of its first league road series and has won 10 SBC opening road series and tied one series
• Last spring, South swept ULM in Monroe, La.
• The three years prior, the Jags had taken two of three at Texas State and swept three-game road series at UT Arlington and at Coastal Carolina to begin league road play
• This will mark the second time that South Alabama has met Georgia State to open road conference play with the other coming during the 2017 season
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