South Alabama (16-11, 0-0 SBC) vs. Troy (16-7, 0-0 SBC)
SERIES INFORMATION
Site: Jaguar Field (Mobile, Ala.)
Date: Friday, March 13
Time: 6 p.m.
Date: Saturday, March 14
Time: 3 p.m.
Date: Sunday, March 15
Time: 1 p.m.
MEDIA AND LIVE STATS
Live stats and the ESPN+ links for all of South Alabama's games can be accessed on the schedule page
PROMOTIONS
Friday – March 13
Blue Out - Blue Beat Troy Shirt Giveaway
Military Appreciation Night - Current and Former Military Members get into the game for free
Saturday – March 14
White Out - White Beat Troy Shirts Giveaway
Tori Miller Senior Day -
Tori Miller Trading Card giveaway
Sunday – March 15
Red Out - Red Beat Troy Shirts Giveaway
Frio's Family Day – Trading Card Giveaway, Baseball Bingo, and Kid's Run the Bases
THE SERIES
All-time series: USA leads 34-21
In Mobile: USA leads 17-7
In Troy: USA leads 17-13
At Neutral Site: Troy leads 1-0
Current Streak: Troy 1
NOTES
• South Alabama holds a 14-5 record in its Sun Belt Conference home openers over the program's previous 19 seasons, and has won 12 of its last 15 SBC home openers and home-opening series
• In its 19 previous seasons in the Sun Belt Conference, South Alabama holds a 10-9 record in its league openers, and the Jags have opened league play at home in six of the last eight seasons, winning six of those series
• The Jaguars hold a 34-21 record in the all-time series and all but three of the neutral series meetings have come during Sun Belt Conference regular-season play
• Since moving into the starting role five games ago,
Reganied Franka has had a hit in each contest and batted .538, scoring four runs
• Franka holds a .438 batting average this spring, which ranks ninth in the Sun Belt, and the junior infielder also ranks sixth in the league with a .524 on-base percentage
•
Ryley Harrison (8-4, 1 SV), ranks in the Top 10 in the league in innings pitched (third – 77.1), strikeouts (third – 76), strikeouts looking (fourth – 18), wins (T-fifth – 8) and earned run average (T-seventh – 2.26)
• As a staff, South Alabama leads the SBC in shutouts (7) and is second in strikeouts looking (43)
•
Gracie Dees (.325) has a team-best 13 extra-base hits, including nine doubles which tied for third-most in the conference
• Along with Dees,
Lillie Stagner and
Kayden Dunn lead the club with three home runs, while eight players in the Jaguar lineup have hit a home run this spring, including six with multiple
• Stagner leads the team with 18 RBI, while
Olivia Branstetter and
Gracie Dees have driven in 16 each
• Lively (.333) leads the SBC in both triples (4) and is tied for second in walks (18)
• Lively (19) and Branstetter (15) have scored a combined 34 runs this season
•
Virginia Mambelli holds a .395 batting average and has driven in 14 runs
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