Reece Ewing Homers in 12th to Help Eagles Complete Sweep of FIU 6-4 Saturday

Saturday, April 16

Miami, Fla.

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Southern Miss

27-8, 0

FIU

11-23, 0

Southern Miss

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Reece Ewing Homers in 12th to Help Eagles Complete Sweep of FIU 6-4 Saturday

4/16/2022 4:07:00 PM | Baseball

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MIAMI – Reece Ewing hit a two-run homer in the top of the 12th and five Golden Eagle relief pitchers combined to keep FIU scoreless over the final 9 1/3 innings as No. 11 Southern Miss completed a three-game sweep with a 6-4 Saturday afternoon victory at the FIU Baseball Stadium.

The Golden Eagles (27-8 overall, 13-2 C-USA) won for the ninth time in a row and have not lost a league road game through the first three road league series. FIU fell to 11-23 and 4-11.

Ewing, who drove in three runs in the contest, gave the Eagles their only lead of the game in the 12th with his eight homer of the year.

The final reliever Garrett Ramsey threw the final four innings to get the victory and improve to 5-0 on the year. Ramsey came on in the ninth with runners at the corners and no outs. After a lineout to left and walk to load the bases, Ramsey got another flyout to left.

The right-hander then fell behind 3-1 to Robert Sotolongo. On the next pitch, the home plate umpire called a delayed strike and the runner at third thought it was ball four and started going home. Alertly, Golden Eagle catcher Blake Johnson ran down the runner at third to get out the jam and send the game to extra innings.

For the second-straight day, the Golden Eagles found themselves down 4-3.

After Hurston Waldrep was pulled with two outs in the third after giving up four runs (one earned). Waldrep allowed two in the first and two more in the third before the Golden Eagles went to the bullpen.

Ben Ethridge came in and got a strikeout to end the third. After Ethridge went 2 1/3 scoreless innings, Tyler Stuart started the sixth and after getting two outs, Dalton Rogers entered with two outs and got a ground out to end the frame.

Landon Harper then came in with two on and no outs in the seventh and worked his way out of a jam, throwing two scoreless frames, before Ramsey came on in the ninth for the visitors.

Southern Miss finally tied the game in the seventh on a Dustin Dickerson run-scoring single.

The Golden Eagles registered 10 hits included two each from Dickerson, Ewing and Gabe Montenegro.

FIU reliever Jan Figueroa suffered the loss giving up a single to Dickerson to start the 12th before the Panthers went to the pen and Zac Lampton gave up the go-ahead blow.

Southern Miss returns to action Tuesday when they travel to New Orleans for a 6:30 p.m. contest at Tulane.