CHARLESTON, S.C. – Charleston Southern softball will end its nine-day lull without a game by hitting the road for an important Big South series, this weekend, at Radford in Radford, Virginia. The two league foes square off in a single-game Friday at 4 p.m. before closing the set with a doubleheader Saturday with first pitch slated for Noon.

HOW DO WE DO THIS?
The Buccaneers surely won't forget what happened the last time they hit the field, a doubleheader sweep at College of Charleston April 20. The nine-day layoff since then came about after a postponement of the weekend home series with North Carolina A&T. Two of those three games with the Aggies have been rescheduled for a doubleheader at the CSU Softball Complex, May 4.

BACK TO LEAGUE PLAY
Charleston Southern owns a 21-24 overall and 7-11 league ledger entering the weekend, picking up its most-recent conference triumph by a 16-0 score in five innings at leader USC Upstate April 15. It was the top offensive performance of the campaign.

Each of the remaining scheduled games on the Bucs' regular-season slate are against Big South opponents as the stretch drive for the league tournament begins.

IMPORTANCE OF EVERY GAME
The top-six teams at the end of the regular season advance to the Big South Championships, May 11-14, at Longwood in Farmville, Virginia. CSU currently sits sixth with its 7-11 record, ahead of a three-team pack of Gardner-Webb, Hampton and Radford all at 7-14. The Bucs earned a series win over Gardner-Webb, March 25-26, by taking two of the three games, and has Radford and Hampton left to play.

The Buccaneers are behind fifth-place Winthrop in the standings, as the Eagles are 10-11. CSU captured just one game in that road series in Rock Hill, April 9-10.

SCOUTING THE HIGHLANDERS
Radford is 14-26 overall, coming off a series win at Hampton last weekend. The Highlanders are led by first-year head coach Alisa Tasler with Cori McMillan yielding the team's best bat, owning a .355 batting average with 12 home runs and 31 RBI as the only player to play in and start all 40 games.

SERIES HISTORY
The two sides first clashed in 1990 during a neutral-site contest in Greensboro, North Carolina, with Charleston Southern picking up an 11-1 triumph, the first of three-straight victories to open the series, 11 of the first 12 and 14 of the first 16.

FOLLOW ALONG
All three games will be broadcast on ESPN+ with live stats also available. Links for the action can be found on CSUsports.com.