MOBILE, Ala. | South Alabama softball enters its final homestand with a midweek matchup with in-state foe Auburn. First pitch versus the Tigers is set for Wednesday night at 6 p.m., and will be the first of four games a Jaguar Field this week.

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South Alabama (17-27) enters the midweek match up versus Auburn (27-19) after being swept last weekend at Louisiana. The Jaguars were held to just one run over the three-game series, and had just 11 hits for a .157 batting average, while leaving 23 runners on base. 

Over the last 15 games, South has won just three games and in its 12 losses, the Jaguars are averaging 2.0 runs (24) per game and 4.58 hits (55) per game, and have been held to five or fewer hits in 11 of those 12 games. South has also left a total of 72 runners on base in those 12 losses.

Gabby Stagner (.342) leads the team in several offensive categories as she has 10 home runs, holds a .676 slugging percentage and a team-high 36 RBI. She is tied for third in triples (3), and also ranks among the league leaders as she ninth in RBI, and 10th in both home runs and OPS. Stagner has a team-best 12 multi-RBI games this season and is also tied for the team lead in multi-hit games with nine. 

Presley Lively is batting .276 and the true freshman ranks second in the Sun Belt triples (4) and is tied for the league lead in walks (30), while her 15 stolen bases are tied for sixth most in the SBC and she is tied for eighth in runs scored (40). Lively has scored two or more runs in 11 games this spring, and she also has nine multi-hit games and five multi-RBI games, the latter tied with Olivia Branstetter for second-most on the Jaguar roster. Of Lively's 35 hits, 10 have gone for extra bases, including an inside-the-park home run. 

Branstetter (.318) and Megan Davidson have been hit by pitch nine and seven times, respectively, which ranks in the Top 10 of the league. 

As a team, South is tied for second in triples, and ranks third in hit-by-pitch (40) – 24th in the NCAA – and tied for fourth in sacrifice flies (13). 

In the circle, Ryley Harrison leads the club with seven wins and the sophomore holds a 3.02 earned run average, while she has also struck out 78 batters. In conference play, Harrison has allowed just 12 earned runs in her 42.1 innings of work for a 1.98 ERA, which is fifth lowest among league pitchers, while she has also struck out 39, which is tied for fourth, and her 13 strikeouts looking are tied for third in league play. Harrison ranks in the Top 10 of the league in ERA (seventh), strikeouts (ninth), strikeouts looking (seventh) and saves (t-fourth).

PROMOTION INFORMATION
Wednesday (Game is Sold Out)
- J's Up Foam Hands

SOUTH ALABAMA Jaguars
NFCA: -- | USA: -- | SA: -- | D1: -- | RPI: 178
Record: 17-27, 6-11 SBC

Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP): .250 / .381 / .361
Team ERA: 4.89

AUBURN Tigers
NFCA: -- | USA: -- | SA: -- | D1: -- | RPI: 18
Record: 27-19, 4-16 SEC

Team Slash Line (AVG / SLG / OBP): .262 / .484 / .365
Team ERA: 4.24

SERIES INFORMATION
Site: Jaguar Field (Mobile, Ala.)

SERIES SCHEDULE
April 23, 2025 | 6 p.m. 

THE SERIES
vs. Auburn: AU leads 7-2
In Mobile: AU leads 2-0
In Auburn: AU leads 5-2
At Neutral Site: --
Current Streak: AU 1

NOTES
•    The meeting will be the 10th in the all-time series and the second this season as the Tigers won the first meeting (7-6) in Auburn back in March
•    All nine series meetings have been decided by three runs or less with six of them being one-run decisions
•    South Alabama and Auburn have met two previous times in Mobile with the last coming during the 2011 season
•    This season marks the first time the two clubs have met twice during the same season
•    Lively enters with a career-best 12-game reached base safely streak, the fourth such streak of 12 or more games this season by a Jag
•    Stagner (143) is seven RBI away from reaching 150 for her career

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