Southern Miss
Troy
Four-Run 10th Lifts Eagles over Troy
2/28/2015 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
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TROY, Ala. -- Freshman Daniel Keating capped a four-run, 10th-inning with a bases-clearing triple to lift Southern Miss to a 6-2 extra-inning victory over Troy here Saturday afternoon at Riddle-Pace Field.
The Golden Eagles (4-4-1) snapped a five-game winless streak as four Golden Eagle pitchers limited the Trojans (7-3) to just two hits in the contest in evening the series to one win apiece. The deciding game of the series is set for 1 p.m., Sunday.
With the game tied at two in the 10th, the Golden Eagles had two runners on in the pivotal inning when Breck Kline tapped a ball in front of the plate, appearing to make the third out of the inning. Instead catcher's interference was called and kept the inning alive. That loaded the bases for Dylan Burdeaux, who then drove in the go-ahead run with a walk.
Keating, from Gulfport, Miss., who went 2-for-2 in the contest with his first two plate appearances of the campaign, then went the other way with a Marc Skinner pitch off the rightfield wall to break open the contest.
The game began as a pitchers' duel between USM's Cody Carroll and Troy's Grant Bennett for six innings as neither hurler allowed a run or a hit for the first six innings.
The Golden Eagles struck first in the seventh with a single up the middle by designated hitter Matt Durst, before Tim Lynch gave Southern Miss a 2-0 advantage with a home run to right, his third of the year and second of the weekend.
Carroll allowed just one hit, an infield single to start the eighth, and the junior right-hander gave up six walks and four strikeouts over a career-high eight innings but did not figure in the decision.
Bennett gave up two runs on two hits over seven innings with two walks and seven strikeouts.
Southern Miss tried to close out the game in the ninth, but gave up two-straight walks to open the inning off of reliever Ryan Milton. After a sacrifice bunt, junior Cody Livingston entered the game and saw his first game action since May 18, 2013, in the final game of the regular season against Houston. Livingston sat out last season with an arm injury.
Pinch hitter David Hall greeted Livingston with a double to right which scored two runners to tie the game. The Trojans loaded the bases, but Livingston got Brody Binder to strikeout to end the threat and sending the game to extra frames.
Livingston collected the victory in the contest, while Skinner (1-2) suffered the loss.
The two teams conclude the three-game set with a 1 p.m., contest Sunday.
