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Mississippi State
Baseball Falls in Midweek Slugfest
5/18/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 18, 2010
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - The Southern Miss offense produced nine runs on 12 hits but the pitching staff surrendered 16 runs on 14 hits as the Golden Eagles fell to Mississippi State 16-9 in front of 4,511 fans at Pete Taylor Park Tuesday night.
"Once again we did not get starting pitching and that has been the key to our success lately," head coach Scott Berry said. "The story of the night was that our starter could not get us deep in the game and theirs did."
Southern Miss used seven different pitchers in the game with only Ryan MacNamara working over three innings. Jeff Stanley got the start but surrendered four runs in the first 2.2 innings before being removed. Cody Schlagel (3-1) took the loss for Southern Miss allowing three runs in one inning of work.
At the plate sophomore B.A. Vollmuth continued his tear with a pair of home runs giving his four long balls in the last two contest and six dingers over the last four games.
Joey Archer continued to swing a hot bat as well going three-for-five tonight with three doubles.
State jumped out early as leadoff hitter Nick Vickerson hit fifth pitch of the game deep over the left field wall for an early 1-0 lead.
Vollmuth evened the score in the bottom of the first as he blasted his 13th home run of the season over the scoreboard at Pete Taylor Park to tie the game at one.
The Dogs added three runs in the top of the third, on only one hit as Stanley walked four batters, thought one was intentional, to start the inning. Russ Sneed drew the bases loaded pass and Jaron Shepherd platted another with a RBI groundout before Ryan Duffy singled through the right side to end the day for Stanley.
Vollmuth stuck again in the fourth inning as he led of the bottom off the frame with a mammoth solo home run over the light pole in left field, his second shot of the game. The rally continued as Mark Ellis drew a walk and Dillon Day laid down a perfect bunt single before Marc Bourgeois and Travis Graves drew back-to-back walks, Graves' forced in Ellis. Two pitches latter Dillon Day scampered home on a wild pitch to tie the game at four.
Kameron Brunty to Southern miss ahead for the first time in the game with a bloop double down the right field line to score Graves.
Ellis padded the Southern Miss lead in the bottom of the fifth as he blasted his second home run in as many games, a solo shot down the left field line to put Southern Miss up 6-4.
Mississippi State tied the game in the top of the sixth after a leadoff walk and a double the Bulldogs used back-to-back RBI groundouts to even the score at six.
The Dogs retook the lead in the top of the seventh at Ryan Duffy hit a two-RBI triple to centerfield off Cody Schlagel and scored one batter later on a RBI single to make the score 9-6.
Day came in to pitch for the first time since the LSU game on April 7 and got two quick outs before loading the bases on two walks and a single. He then issued a bases loaded pass for the first run and reliever Josh Jones surrendered a tow-RBI single to stretch the State lead to 12-6.
Jones then surrendered a three run home run to Jett Butler to make the score 15-6.
Southern Miss struck for three runs in the bottom of the eighth as Archer led off the frame with a double and Graves singled through the left side to put runners on the corners. Tyler Koelling singled home Archer and Taylor Walker delivered a two-RBI single to make the score 15-9.
Sneed added a sacrifice fly off Seth Hester in the ninth to cap the State scoring.
Southern Miss returns to action Thursday as they host Memphis for a three game set to close out the regular season.
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