Southern Miss
Tulane
Baseball Sweeps Tulane with a 13-9 Win on Sunday
5/2/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 2, 2010
NEW ORLEANS - The Southern Miss baseball team went to New Orleans and swept Tulane out of their own stadium in the three game Conference USA series. The Golden Eagles finished off the sweep with a 13-9 win Sunday afternoon.
The Golden Eagles (25-17, 8-7 C-USA) have now won seven straight, including six straight C-USA games thanks to their first three-game sweep ever over Tulane.
Southern Miss has now defeated Tulane five consecutive times, dating back to 2009.
"I am real proud of the way we came out and finished off the series today," head coach Scott Berry said. "We came out and scored early and I could not be any more proud of our guys than I am right now."
Southern Miss once again jumped out to with a lead, thanks to six runs in the first two inning, and held off a late Tulane charge to preserve the sweep. The Golden Eagles did not trail at any point in the three game series.
Southern Miss struggled on the mound as six pitchers combined to allow nine runs on 13 hits.
Starting pitcher Ryan MacNamara lasted only two plus innings, allowing only three hits but two of them left the park. Cody Schlagel worked two innings, allowing two runs and two hits to pick up his third win of the season.
Seth Hester worked one plus inning allowing four runs on four hits while Mandella Mingo and Jay Myrick both worked a scoreless inning.
Collin Cargill came in and slammed the door with his second consecutive two-inning save. He worked the final two frames allowing only one hit for the save.
Offensively Southern Miss tallied 15 hits, three a piece by Kameron Brunty, B.A. Vollmuth and Dillon Day. Taylor Walker added in four RBI, two of which came on his seventh home run of the year.
Southern Miss wasted no time jumping on the scoreboard in the final game of the series with a four run top of the first inning. Kameron Brunty started the rally with a bunt single on the first pitch of the game and scored on B.A. Vollmuth's RBI single through the right side.
The rally continued in the first as Adam Doleac executed a perfect hit and run to put runners on the corners and Vollmuth scored on the next pitch as Gunner Wright bounced one to the backstop. On the wild pitch Doleac went all the way around to third and scored on Dillon Day's RBI groundout. Archer added in the final RBI with a double just inside the bad to score Ellis who was hit by a pitch.
The runs continued in the second with some help from the Tulane defense as Tyler Koelling reached second on a dropped pop up and came in to score on Brunty's RBI double that Nick Boullose kicked in centerfield allowing Brunty to advance to third. That error allowed Brunty to tag up from third on Vollmuth's sacrifice fly and score the sixth run of the game for Southern Miss.
Tulane scored their first runs of the game in the bottom of the second inning on a two-run home run by Jeremy Schaffer.
The Wave cut the lead in half with a solo home run in the bottom of the third by Brandon Boudreaux to make the score 6-3 and ending the day for starting pitcher Ryan MacNamara.
The Golden Eagles struck again in the top of the fourth inning on a two-run home run by Taylor Walker, a opposite field line drive just inside the right field line, Brunty scored on the home run, he singled to reach earlier in the inning. The Rally continued as Vollmuth singled to third base and went to second on the fourth Tulane error of the game, he scored two batters latter on a RBI double by Mark Ellis. Day added his second RBI of the game with a RBI single to plate Ellis and make the score 10-3.
Tulane answered with two runs of their own as Blake Crohan hit a bases loaded single, scoring two runs off Schlagel.
Brennan Middelton cut the Southern Miss lead to four runs with a RBI single off Seth Hester in the fifth inning, making the score 10-6.
The Golden Eagles got one of those runs back in the top of the sixth as Vollmuth singled up the middle to start the frame and came around to score on a two-out RBI single by Day.
Tulane scored for the fifth consecutive inning as Blake Crohan hit a three-run home run off Hester to make the score 11-9.
Southern Miss added two insurance runs in the top of the ninth as they loaded the bases and Taylor Walker lined a two-out single to centerfield to score Archer and Justin Diliberto.
Southern Miss returns to action Wednesday evening as they travel to Trustmark Park to play Mississippi State.
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