Mobile Courant

The South Alabama softball team returns home this weekend to open up Sun Belt Conference play with a three-game set versus Georgia State at Jaguar Field, but fans will have to wait one extra day as this weekend's series schedule has been adjusted.

Due to forecasted weather on Friday, game one of the series between South Alabama (16-9) and Georgia State (10-13) has been moved to Saturday, which will now become a doubleheader with game times set for 1 pm and 3 pm.

Single game ticket purchasers of Friday's now postponed contest can exchange their tickets in person as they arrive on Saturday for comparable open seating for the doubleheader or for any remaining home contest during the course of the 2023 season.

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

THE SERIES
All-time series: South Alabama leads 15-8
In Mobile: South Alabama leads 8-3
In Decatur: South Alabama leads 5-4
At Neutral Site: South Alabama leads 2-1
Streak: USA 2

Game 1 (DH)
Date: 3/18
Time: 1 pm
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Game 2 (DH)
Date: 3/18
Time: 3 pm
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Game 3
Date: 3/19
Time: 1 pm
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NOTES
•    South is looking to pick up its fifth SBC opening series win in its last six, and win its seventh home-opening series in last eight
•    Meredith Keel (.348) leads the club at the plate, while Victoria Ortiz (.319) and Sasha Willems (.308) are both hitting over .300
•    Ortiz is looking at solely overtaking the top spot in career doubles and extra-base hits, and move into a tie for third in career home runs, along with moving into the top 10 in career RBI
•    The Jaguars enter the Georgia State series with 42 extra-base hits this spring – 24 doubles, three triples and 15 home runs.  Ortiz and Willems lead the club with 10 extra-base hits apiece
•    In the circle, Jenna Hardy (8-5) has a 1.59 earned run average, and has struck out 74 in her 83.2 innings of work
•    Olivia Lackie (8-4) has a 1.90 ERA and has struck out 98 in 73.2 innings of work
•    Lackie (.187) holds a sub-.200 opponents' batting average, while Hardy is holding opponents to a .205 average
•    As a staff, USA has a 1.80 ERA and is holding opponents to a .196 batting average
•    Lackie is 44 strikeouts shy of 600
•    Through 25 games this spring, South Alabama's pitching staff has recorded 10 total shutouts – seven solo and three combined – which leads the SBC in that category
•    Over their last 11 games, the Jaguars have recorded six shutouts 

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