Southern Miss
Missouri State
Baseball Beats Missouri State for 2nd Straight Day
3/12/2011 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 12, 2011
HATTIESBURG, Miss. - B.A. Vollmuth homered and drove in three runs and the Golden Eagles tallied a season-high run total in a 13-3 baseball victory over Missouri State here Saturday afternoon at Pete Taylor Park/Hill Denson Field.
The Golden Eagles (10-3) won for the eighth time in nine tries at home in 2011 as they battered MSU starter Pierce Johnson (2-1) for 12 runs on 11 hits and three walks with three strikeouts over five-plus innings.
The home squad, behind 12 hits including two each from Kameron Brunty, Tyler Koelling, Vollmuth, and Chase Fowler, scored three times in both the second and third innings to pull away in the contest.
Southern Miss added six more runs in the sixth frame as the first seven Golden Eagle batters reached base, including Vollmuth's fifth home run of the campaign, a three-run shot to leftfield. Marc Bourgeois added a run-scoring triple in the offensive explosion.
Todd McInnis (3-1) fanned a season-best eight batters to keep the Bears off-balanced over six innings to garner the win. The senior from Brandon, Miss., went over the 300 mark in career strikeouts and moved into second place on the career charts with 303, moving ahead of Damon Pollard who tallied 302 from 1989-90.
He allowed a run on six hits and walked two in the victory.
Brock Chaffin and Luke Voit paced the offensive attack for the Bears (8-6) with two hits each. MSU, though, lost for the ninth consecutive time to the Golden Eagles.
The Golden Eagles will vie for the three-game sweep when the series concludes with a 1 p.m. contest Sunday. Sophomore righthander Geoffrey Thomas (2-1, 1.50 ERA) will get the nod for Southern Miss as he will face righy Blake Barber (2-1, 2.21 ERA).
