Wednesday, May 26
Ruston, La.
7:30 p.m.
Southern Miss
36-17
11
vs
1
WKU
26-28
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
R
H
E
WKU
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
3
0
Southern Miss
4
0
2
0
0
0
0
5
11
15
0
Baseball Opens C-USA Tournament with 11-1 Win over WKU
5/27/2021 4:12:00 AM | Baseball
RUSTON, La. – Hunter Stanley tied a C-USA single-game tournament record with 14 strikeouts to lead No. 3 seed Southern Miss to an 11-1 win over No. 6 seed WKU in the final game of the first day of the 2021 Air Force Reserve Conference USA Championships at JC Love Field at Pat Patterson Park.
The latest-starting (12:15 a.m. CT) and latest-ending game (2:59 a.m. CT) in C-USA Baseball Championship history ended in the bottom of the eighth inning by way of the 10-run rule when USM's Christopher Sargent hit a grand slam to left for the final margin.
The 14 strikeouts by Stanley (6-3) tied the record held by Charlotte's Colton Laws vs. UTSA in 2017. He allowed just one run on three hits and one walk in 8.0 innings of action while throwing 108 pitches. Stanley's strikeout total propelled him in the school's single-season top 10 list for strikeouts. He now has 119 for the year, landing him in the No. 7 spot.
Southern Miss (36-17) struck early and late as the Golden Eagles continued their streak of being the only C-USA program to win a game in all 25 league championships held to date.
Southern Miss took an early 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Reece Ewing singled to plate Gabe Montenegro with the first run of the contest. Danny Lynch followed with an RBI single, scoring Sargent to increase the lead to 2-0. Will McGill tripled off the base of the centerfield wall, scoring Lynch and Ewing to give USM a 4-0 advantage.
Dustin Dickerson struck for the Golden Eagles in the bottom of the third, when he doubled home Lynch and Reese to up the lead to 6-0.
WKU finally got on the scoreboard in the top of the eighth inning on Matt Phipps' double to right field that scored Jackson Swiney, who led off the frame with a double down the right-field line.
Southern Miss ended the game in the bottom of the eighth inning with five runs, capped by Sargent's slam.
Dickerson led USM with three hits while McGillis, Lynch, Montenegro, Trimble and Ewing added two hits apiece.
Phipps led WKU with two hits and the lone RBI.
With the win, Southern Miss advanced to a winner's bracket game against No. 2 seed Louisiana Tech on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. CT. WKU will face UTSA in an elimination game at 4 p.m. CT.
The latest-starting (12:15 a.m. CT) and latest-ending game (2:59 a.m. CT) in C-USA Baseball Championship history ended in the bottom of the eighth inning by way of the 10-run rule when USM's Christopher Sargent hit a grand slam to left for the final margin.
The 14 strikeouts by Stanley (6-3) tied the record held by Charlotte's Colton Laws vs. UTSA in 2017. He allowed just one run on three hits and one walk in 8.0 innings of action while throwing 108 pitches. Stanley's strikeout total propelled him in the school's single-season top 10 list for strikeouts. He now has 119 for the year, landing him in the No. 7 spot.
Southern Miss (36-17) struck early and late as the Golden Eagles continued their streak of being the only C-USA program to win a game in all 25 league championships held to date.
Southern Miss took an early 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. Reece Ewing singled to plate Gabe Montenegro with the first run of the contest. Danny Lynch followed with an RBI single, scoring Sargent to increase the lead to 2-0. Will McGill tripled off the base of the centerfield wall, scoring Lynch and Ewing to give USM a 4-0 advantage.
Dustin Dickerson struck for the Golden Eagles in the bottom of the third, when he doubled home Lynch and Reese to up the lead to 6-0.
WKU finally got on the scoreboard in the top of the eighth inning on Matt Phipps' double to right field that scored Jackson Swiney, who led off the frame with a double down the right-field line.
Southern Miss ended the game in the bottom of the eighth inning with five runs, capped by Sargent's slam.
Dickerson led USM with three hits while McGillis, Lynch, Montenegro, Trimble and Ewing added two hits apiece.
Phipps led WKU with two hits and the lone RBI.
With the win, Southern Miss advanced to a winner's bracket game against No. 2 seed Louisiana Tech on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. CT. WKU will face UTSA in an elimination game at 4 p.m. CT.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Stanley, Hunter (6-3)
L: Devyn Terbrak (2-4)
Batting:
2B: Jackson Swiney 1 ; Matt Phipps 1
RBI: Matt Phipps 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Jackson Swiney 1
Batting:
2B: Ewing, Reece 1 ; McGillis, Will 1 ; Dickerson, Dustin 1
3B: McGillis, Will 1
HR: Sargent, Christopher 1
RBI: Trimble, Reed 1 ; Sargent, Christopher 4 ; Ewing, Reece 1 ; Lynch, Danny 1 ; McGillis, Will 2 ; Dickerson, Dustin 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Montenegro, Gabe 2 ; Trimble, Reed 1 ; Fischer, Charlie 1 ; Sargent, Christopher 2 ; Ewing, Reece 2 ; Lynch, Danny 2 ; Dickerson, Dustin 1
SB: Montenegro, Gabe 1
HBP: Johnson, Blake 1
Game Leaders
Hitting
AB
3
R
1
H
3
RBI
2
AB
5
R
2
H
2
RBI
0
AB
5
R
1
H
2
RBI
1
AB
4
R
2
H
2
RBI
1
Players Mentioned
INF/P
/ BaseballOF
/ Baseball
INF
/ BaseballOF
/ Baseball
UTIL
/ Baseball
RHP
/ BaseballTrue Grit: Final Episode
Friday, October 20
Episode 1: War Damn Golden Eagle
Tuesday, August 22
Episode 5: Battle for the Belt
Thursday, August 17
Episode 4: Battle for the Belt
Saturday, August 12