University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
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Lehigh
Baseball Pounds Out 18 Hits to Defeat Lehigh 13-0
2/21/2009 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Feb. 21, 2009
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - Southern Miss used a strong pitching performance and pounded out 18 hits to defeat Lehigh University 13-0 Saturday afternoon at Pete Taylor Park.
Junior transfer Cody Schlagel made his Southern Miss debut this afternoon and did not disappoint the home crowd of 3,146 fans in attendance working seven innings without allowing a run and only two hits. He faced the minimum number of hitters into the fourth before allowing his first hit with two outs in the top of the fourth. On the day he used 77 pitches to complete his seven innings of work to pick up his first win of the season.
"I thought Schlagel threw the ball well today," head coach Corky Palmer said. "He threw strikes and forced a lot of ground balls and we made some good defensive plays behind him."
Kyle Lindsey and Collin Cargill each worked an inning a piece to extend the streak of 18 innings without allowing an earned run for the Southern Miss pitching staff.
The Golden Eagle bats have been red hot in the first two games of the series with 33 hits, including nine for extra bases, and 31 runs. On the flip side Golden Eagle pitchers have surrender only eight hits, all of which were singles.
"I really like the way we have been swinging the bat, especially some of our younger guys, this lineup is not anywhere near set at this point with this much competition at some positions," Palmer added.
The Golden Eagle offense continued right where the left off from yesterdays 18 run affair in the top of the first scoring five runs and sending 10 batters to the plate to start the game. Bo Davis started the rally by lining the first pitch of the inning to right field and came around to score two batters later on a James Ewing's RBI single down the right field line.
Joey Archer followed with his first Golden Eagle hit, an RBI single scoring Brian Dozier from second before freshman Kameron Brunty singled to left field to score Ewing for an early 3-0 lead.
Tyler Koelling delivered a bases loaded single to score Archer for the fourth run of the inning and Taylor Walker followed with a sacrifice fly to center field platting Brunty from third to score the fifth and final run in the first frame.
Southern Miss struck again for four runs in the bottom of the third and chased Lehigh starting pitcher Andrew Berger from the game. Koelling legged out an infield single and Archer came in to score on a throwing error by Mountain Hawk third baseman Kevin Mihalik
Bo Davis added in two additional RBI as he tripled to center field his second of the season and 13th of his career, tying Chad Herbert for the lead on the school's all-time list.
The Golden Eagles continued the scoring in the bottom of the sixth with two more runs as Taylor Walker added a RBI single up the middle and Dozier drew a bases loaded walk to extend the lead to 11-0.
Corey Stevens added in a pinch hit solo home run in the bottom of the seventh and Dozier picked up his third RBI of the game with a double down the left field line in the eighth.
The two teams will meet again on Sunday for the final game of the series with first pitch set for 11:00 a.m. at Pete Taylor Park.
