MOBILE, Ala. - South Alabama (11-5) to host Southeastern Louisiana (9-7) for the second time this season on Wednesday night at Stanky Field.


The Jaguars took the midweek from the Lions in their first meeting this season (Feb. 24) by a 9-7 final score in Hammond, La.


SERIES HISTORY
Wednesday night's match-up marks the 73rd game between South Alabama and Southeastern Louisiana in their history dating back to 1984. The Jaguars lead the all-time series 46-26, after they tacked on their 46th win over the Lions just a couple of weeks ago when the most recent meeting in Hammond was a 9-7 victory (Feb. 24). Since 2017, the Lions and Jags have met 11 times. SLU leads 6-5 over the Jags in that span. The Jaguars longest stretch of victory ran from 1990-93 winning 12 straight over the Lions.


SCOUTING THE LIONS
The 9-7 Lions have been hot since the Jaguars took the victory in Hammond on Feb. 24, and enter the Wednesday night match-up on a five game win streak and have won eight of their last nine. SLU opened Southland conference play taking two of three at Northwestern State before sweeping ULM in a back-to-back midweek and added another sweep in a three-game weekend set vs. Grambling State.


PITCHING PROBABLES & LIVE ACTION OUTLETS
Friday: ESPN+, Jags Radio Network
South Alabama - Hayden O'Dell LHP (1-0, 5.23 ERA)
Southeastern La. - Nik Toups, LHP (0-0, 7.84 ERA)


PRIMARY THREADS

• South Alabama is coming off a 2-2 week where it run-ruled UAB in Montgomery on the Tuesday night midweek, and dropped the Saturday and Sunday games of the Louisiana Tech weekend series after a Friday night victory.
• The offense has been on fire with two away and are making it a trend. The offense is collectively hitting .309 in 178 at-bats with 49 RBI in two out situations, which is 46% of their RBI this season.
• Brennon Wright leads the SBC in three offensive categories: batting average (.475), hits (28), and on-base percentage (.581)
• Blake Guerin is the team leader in homers (5) and RBI (17) - has the ability to take over a series offensively and has done it already against Charleston (4-7, 1 HR, 6 RBI) and West Georgia (5-9, 2 HR, 5 RBI).
• Pitchers Daniel Gonzalez (9) Hayden O'Dell (8) and Mitchell Heer (11) have all set career-highs in the strikeout column this season.

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