MOBILE, Ala. | Sydney Scapin and Tori Miller combined to hold Troy's high-powered offense to just three hits and shut out the Trojans for just the second time this spring as South Alabama clinched the Sun Belt Conference series with a 7-0 win Saturday afternoon at Jaguar Field.

Quotable – head coach Becky Clark
- On the win: "Our kids are competing and fighting right now. We've gotten great starting pitching. The offense has done an awesome job. Going into conference, I just wanted to see us compete every pitch. Troy is a very good team. They've got a lot of wins and some good numbers, so we knew we're going to have to dig in in order to get some wins against them. I'm very proud of our kids for their effort and their compete level. I felt like we stepped out on the field and had a lot of confidence, and we were going to make things happen, and we did."

- On the starting pitching in the series: "Our pitchers have done an awesome job. That is a powerful offense and they had really good numbers coming into conference play. For us to do what we've done and be able to shut them down is impressive, and our defense has also helped in that effort. We've made some big plays, Peanut (Presley Lively) made some big grabs in center field today. There's a lot of teamwork going on out in the field, and a lot of people working together and fighting together. The thing we have to remember is today's work doesn't win tomorrow's game. It starts all over tomorrow and we have to be ready to dig in and do the work tomorrow."

Sophomore RHP Sydney Scapin
- On how the team's playing: "We came out on fire yesterday, and then we were again able to get off to a good start and shut them (Troy) out, which was a big deal to us. We've been good on both sides of the ball, pitching and hitting. In practice, we've talked about not feeling that we've shown our full potential, so the last few games I feel that we've been getting better every time."

- On what was working for her in the circle: "I was able to keep them off balance with my change up, just moving it in and out."

Freshman DP Lillie Stagner
- On her approach at the plate: "I was just trying to be relaxed, and just have fun at the plate today."

- On the key to how the team is playing right now: "We're just going out and trying to compete. That's been the biggest thing for us. You have to be ready to compete every time you step out onto this field. That's what we're doing right now."

Key Moments
•    South Alabama (18-11, 2-0 SBC) jumped out in the opening frame scoring three runs with two outs
•    With the bases loaded after a walk to Olivia Branstetter, Kara Wine lined a single back up the middle off second baseman's glove (USA, 2-0) to score Gracie Dees (single) and Virginia Mambelli (HBP), and Lillie Stagner followed with a RBI-infield single (USA, 3-0)
•    Loftis drew a two-out walk, Sydney Scapin (4-4) strikeout – her third of the game – to end the inning
•    The Jags added to their lead in their half of the fifth as Mambelli homered to right on the first pitch she saw from Ella Cunningham (4-1) with two away in the inning (USA, 4-0)
•    Makaley Boswell drew a two-out walk in the top of the sixth for Troy (16-9, 0-2 SBC), by Presley Lively made a nice running catch in center to end the inning
•    South added some insurance in the bottom of the inning, adding three more runs
•    With one out, Stagner unloaded and drove a ball deep over the wall in left center – her fourth home run of the season and her team-leading 20th RBI of the season (USA, 5-0)
•    Trojan pitching then issued four straight walks to Sydney Stewart, Brooklynn Bockhaus, Reganied Franka and Lively (USA, 6-0), and Dees then plated the final run with a RBI-ground out (USA, 7-0)
•    Troy loaded the bases in the top of the seventh, but Tori Miller was able to get Kalee Rochinski looking to end the game and preserve the shutout

Key Stats
•    Five different Jaguars drove in a run, while six scored at least once
•    Mambelli homered and scored twice in the win
•    Stagner was 2-for-3 and both her and Wine drove in two runs apiece
•    Lively and Dees also drove in a run with the later also scoring
•    Scapin allowed just one hit and struck out six in her six innings of work in the circle

Postgame Notes
•    Prior to the game, Miller was honored as part of her Senior Day festivities
•    With the win, South Alabama improves to 36-21 in the all-time series and 19-7 at Jaguar Field
•    The shutout was the Jaguars' SBC-leading eighth of the season, and marked the 12th time in the series South has done so
•    With the two wins this weekend, South Alabama has now won nine of the last 12 series meetings
•    Dees has had a hit in nine of her last 11, and has recorded at least one hit in 22 of last her last 27 games
•    With her two-run single in the first inning, Wine has had either a hit, a walk or driven in a run in 14 of her last 16 games
•    Stagner had a hit and driven in a run in three of her last four games
•    The multi-RBI game was the first of the season for Wine, while it was Stagner's fifth 
•    Mambelli has now reached base safely in seven of her last eight
•    Both of South Alabama's home runs came on the first pitch of the at-bat
•    While she did not have a hit for the first time in six games, Franka did extend her reached-base-safely streak to seven games with her walk

Up Next
•    South Alabama will close out the series on Sunday with first pitch versus the Trojans set for 1 p.m. at Jaguar Field.

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