Southern Miss
Tulane
McInnis Pitches Southern Miss Past Tulane
5/1/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 1, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - Todd McInnis held the Tulane offense to one run over seven innings as Southern Miss took game two of the of the series over Tulane, 4-2 in New Orleans Saturday afternoon.
With the win today, Southern Miss has won a season high six consecutive games and has now won four straight over Tulane, including the two wins over Tulane in last years C-USA Tournament.
McInnis (4-4) was outstanding once again, working seven innings allowing only one runs on seven hits while striking out six, the difference is today he was given enough run support to pick up the win.
Collin Cargill picked up his sixth save of the season, working the final two frames allowing one run on one hit.
Tulane was able to get runners on base but could not get them around to score as they were one-for-eight this afternoon with runners in scoring position. McInnis educed two-double play balls and had several big strikeouts to keep the Wave at bay.
In the first two games of the series Tulane is 1-for-17 with runners in scoring position.
Southern Miss managed only seven hits offensively, two by Mark Ellis, but it was Dillon Day who had the big blow, a two-RBI triple in the second inning. And Travis Graves has the only other RBI with a single in the eighth.
Southern Miss struck for the games first runs in the top of the second as Adam Doleac drew a leadoff walk and Mark Ellis singled to start the rally. Freshman Dillon Day then delivered once again with a two RBI triple to right-center field and scored three pitches later on a wild pitch to put Southern miss up 3-0.
Tulane cracked the board in the bottom of the third on a RBI single by Matt Ryan to make the score 3-1.
Southern Miss added a huge insurance run in the top of the eighth inning as Adam Doleac walked and pinch runner Justin Diliberto came around to score on a RBI single by Travis Graves to extend the Southern Miss lead to 4-1.
Tulane got the run right back in the bottom of the eighth inning on a sacrifice fly by Blake Crohan, scoring Rob Segedin who doubled off Cargill to lead off the inning.
The Golden Eagles will try for an unprecedented series sweep over Tulane Sunday morning, first pitch has been moved to 10:00 a.m. because of the anticipated weather in the New Orleans area.
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