BUIES CREEK, N.C. – The Presbyterian College softball team – recently reigning in the 2023 Big South Conference slate to which all outings the rest of the way remain in league play – awaits the first of four weekend series in divisional action where they'll assume the visiting role. Buies Creek will be the destination for the Blue Hose, facing Campbell in a Saturday doubleheader prior to the Sunday finale.

Only able to complete two contests in the Big South opener one week back when hosting Longwood thanks to unwavering overnight precipitation, Presbyterian searches for its first three-game ballot of the year against the defending conference tournament champions.

Tomorrow's two-parter kicks off PC's second straight season of facing the Fighting Camels in hostile territory, claiming the first bout in a 4-0 blanking last spring before dropping the final two matchups of the set in the Tar Heel State. The Blue Hose will aim for their first series victory in Buies Creek since the 2016 campaign, having collected five all-time wins when made to travel to Campbell.
 
GAMEDAY INFO – SATURDAY, APRIL 1
Presbyterian (19-10, 0-2) at Campbell (23-9, 5-1) – (1:00 & 3:00 p.m.)
Game 1 – Live Stats
Game 2 – Live Stats
 
GAMEDAY INFO – SUNDAY, APRIL 2
Presbyterian (19-10, 0-2) at Campbell (23-9, 5-1) – (1:00 p.m.)
Game 3 – Live Stats
 
SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
- It's been no easy route for the Blue Hose in terms of opponents' strength to start off Big South terrain, with each of their first two series against schools who tied for the league's regular season crown in 2022. The Fighting Camels have ended the conference tourney as the last team standing in consecutive campaigns, earning an automatic bid to the NCAA bracket last year where they were bested in two games by Tennessee and Ohio State in the Knoxville regional.

- Head coach Trena Prater has assembled a strong core in just her first year as the program's director, led by starting hurler Isabella Smith who leads all Division I players in innings pitched (131.0). Saturday's DH figures to be a highly-engrossing duel in the circle between Smith and Blue Hose ace Jenna Greene, both members of the nation's top 30 in total strikeouts.

- Campbell made major headlines around the league in their last go-around with preseason conference favorite USC Upstate, publishing a sweep over the Spartans that entailed a 10-2 mercy rule decision in Game 2 and an extra-inning 4-3 triumph in the finale. Perhaps no other team in the Big South holds more current momentum than the Fighting Camels, seizing a W in 10 of their last 11 encounters, while also holding a pair of nonconference wins over Purdue and NC State in their back pocket.
 
LAST TIME OUT
- In possession of the second-lowest earned-run average in the conference (2.04, a mark putting them 28^th in the country across that category), Presbyterian had no troubles keeping their mostly-airtight defense in order against Longwood in Clinton last Saturday, although were unable to get things moving on the base pads which led to a Lancer sweep.

- Things may not have started off on the right note for head coach David Williams' squad in league play, although still maintaining a .655 win-loss percentage that ranks third among all Big South reps. PC's .392 slugging percentage similarly places third in the league, achieving that number thanks to 33 doubles and 22 homers, eight of which have clanked off the lead batter's hands.

- Ten of those longballs have been courtesy of rightfielder/#2 pitcher Morgan Hess, defiantly leading the roster in RBI (24) and total bases (55). Going yard more than any other player in the conference, the sophomore needs two more homers to tie the all-time career record of 28 in only her second year donning the blue and white.

- Junior second-baseman Kaitlyn Tucker leads the way for coach Williams' group in accumulated on-base percentage (.415), riding a six-game streak of reaching base at least once into this weekend's anticipated series. PC has achieved a flawless record of 12-0 when gaining the lead after four innings this year, scattering their highest production rates in the 1^st and 5^th frames (25 and 27 total runs, respectively).