Southern Miss
New Orleans
Southern Miss Wins in the Ninth at UNO
4/13/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 13, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - Taylor Walker drew a bases loaded walk in the top of the ninth inning to break a two-two tie and lead Southern Miss over UNO Tuesday night in New Orleans, 3-2.
The win snaps a four game losing streak for Southern Miss and marks the sixth consecutive time the Golden Eagles have defeated UNO.
"I am very proud of the way we came out and competed tonight," head coach Scott Berry said. "I thought out pitchers did a great job controlling the game and pitching out of some jams. Now we have to take this momentum and build on it into the weekend when we get back into conference play."
With the game tied at two Justin Diliberto ripped a two-out single up the middle and both Travis Graves and Dillon Day drew walks to load the bases. Taylor Walker never took the bat off his shoulders and walked on five pitches, forcing home Diliberto for the winning run.
Freshman Geoffrey Thomas had one of his better outings, allowing two runs on five hits while striking out three and walking three in five innings of work, he did not factor into the decision.
Mandella Mingo worked himself into a jam in relief of Thomas, facing three batters, hitting one and walking two and throwing two wild pitches though he did manage to pick off a runner, the only out he recorded, before leaving the game. Cody Schlagel entered the game in relief of Mingo with runners at second and third and one out and coaxed two harmless groundballs to end the UNO threat. Schlagel worked 1.2 innings without allowing a hit.
Jay Myrick (2-0) worked a perfect eighth inning to pick up his second career win and closer Collin Cargill finished off the ninth inning for his third save of the season.
Adam Doleac drove in two runs with two sacrifice flies and B.A. Vollmuth was the only Golden Eagle with multiple hits, he had two in the game.
Southern Miss scored struck in the top of the first inning without the benefit of a hit as Taylor Walker and B.A. Vollmuth both drew walks and advanced on wild pitches and Adam Doleac drove a deep fly ball to the warning track that allowed Walker to score from third for an early 1-0 lead.
UNO tied the game in the bottom of the first as the leadoff hitter Ryan Eden walked and came around to score on a Thomas wild pitch.
Southern Miss struck again in the top of the third as Dillon Day drew a walk, stole second and went to third on a single by Vollmuth. Adam Doleac hit another deep fly ball, this time the UNO left fielder Jerad Comarada went up over the wall to take a home run away from Doleac, but it did serve as a sacrifice fly to score Day and put Southern Miss up 2-1.
UNO answered once again as Nick Schwaner hit Thomas' first pitch of the bottom of the third over the left-center field wall to tie the game at two.
The game stayed tied at two until Southern Miss scratched across a run in the ninth.
Southern Miss returns to action this weekend as they travel to Charleston, West Virginia to play Marshall in C-USA play.
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