BATON ROUGE, La. – The third-ranked LSU softball team will take on No. 13/15 Georgia in its first SEC road series on March 21-23 at the Jack Turner Softball Stadium in Athens, Ga.
First SEC Road Series On Deck!
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— LSU Softball (@LSUsoftball) March 20, 2025
LSU (27-1, 3-0 SEC) leads Georgia (22-6, 2-4 SEC) 45-20 in the all-time series and is 17-15 when playing in Athens. The Tigers have won 11 of the last 13 meetings and six consecutive series dating back to the 2014 season.
The Tigers are coming off a series sweep over then-No. 23 Kentucky, bringing the club’s total to eight Top 25 wins this season. LSU has one of the top offenses in the country, ranking inside the top five with a .488 on-base percentage (No. 1), a .374 batting average (No. 4) and 145 walks (No. 3). LSU ranks No. 5 in the SEC with 253 hits and 277 runs.
Eight LSU starters bat over .320 and five over .420, beginning with infielder Danieca Coffey, who ranks No. 2 in the NCAA with a .680 on-base percentage, No. 3 with a .541 batting average, and is the SEC leader with 33 walks. Coffey has a team-high 40 hits (No. 6 in SEC), is on a 38-game reached-base streak dating back to last season, and has an 11-game hitting streak. Utility player Tori Edwards is this week’s SEC Freshman of the Week. She has a .427 batting average and leads the team with a .915 slugging percentage (No. 4 in the SEC), 11 home runs and 44 RBI (both rank No. 5 in the SEC).
The Tigers’ pitching staff and defense have also been elite early in the season, sitting at No. 2 in Division I softball with a 1.56 ERA and No. 10 in the nation with a .979 fielding percentage. The LSU pitching staff has totaled 188 strikeouts and 11 shutouts this season, led by two-time All-American Sydney Berzon, who is 12-0 in the circle with a 1.02 ERA (No. 4 in the SEC) and has 62 strikeouts and four shutouts in 68.1 innings. Freshman pitcher Jayden Heavener (7-1) ranks No. 5 in the SEC with 84 strikeouts and has turned in four games with double-digit strikeouts this season. She also has the fifth-lowest opposing batting average in the SEC at .143, and her 11.0 strikeouts per seven innings rank fourth in the nation and lead the SEC.
**LSU Press Release**
