Auburn softball should have two of its leading hitters back in the lineup this week with a third still on the mend.

Shortstop Taylon Snow, who sprained her right ankle earlier this month, missed the last three games of the team's six-game trip to California due to sickness and right fielder Alyssa Rivera missed the last two games due to a family emergency.

Auburn coach Mickey Dean said Snow's illness wasn't expected to linger into this week. Both she and Rivera were at Tuesday's practice and worked in the field and hit.

Snow is hitting .442 with a .500 on-base percentage while hitting third in the lineup. Rivera is hitting .348 with a .444 OBP and a team-high eight extra-base hits while usually batting fourth or fifth in the order.

Second baseman KK Crocker, who jammed her left thumb on Feb. 18, has not batted since but did come in as a pinch runner twice during the California trip. Crocker didn't hit on Tuesday but did take infield practice.

"She'll start back in today," Dean said. "It'll be limited probably today and then we'll move forward from there.

Crocker is hitting .367 with a .447 OBP and has four stolen bases. She usualyl hti second in the order, a role catcher Courtney Shea had to fill last weekend.

Auburn (17-2) returns to Jane B. Moore Field for the Wilson/Demarini Classic beginning with a doubleheader with UNC-Wilmington and Western Carolina starting at 3 p.m. Friday.

James Crepea is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @JamesCrepea.