University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
Southern Miss
42-15
UTSA
37-19
Southern Miss Falls Friday into C-USA Loser’s Bracket After Dropping 7-6 Contest to UTSA
5/27/2022 3:45:00 PM | Baseball
Southern Miss (42-15) had a six-game winning streak snapped in the loss and return to action later Friday to face Florida Atlantic in an elimination game. UTSA improved to 37-19 and will play the winner of the Golden Eagles and Owls at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
Carson Paetow and Blake Johnson led the Golden Eagles with two hits each in their 10-hit attack.
With the score tied at 6-6 in the ninth, Flores hit a 1-1 Landon Harper pitch over the center field wall – his 12th homer of the year – which proved to be the difference.
Harper (2-2) suffered the loss as that was the only hit he allowed in his lone inning of work. Golden Eagle starter Hurston Waldrep gave up three runs on seven hits with two walks and eight strikeouts for a no decision.
The Roadrunners scored in five different innings, including in each of the last four, to pull away in the contest.
After UTSA took a 2-0 advantage in the top of the third, Blake Johnson tied the score with a two-run homer to left, his third of 2022, to tie the score.
The Roadrunners then retook the lead 3-2 in the sixth on a Garrett Poston run-scoring double, but the Golden Eagles took their final advantage of 5-3 as Reece Ewing collected a run-scoring ground-rule double as well run-scoring singles from Christopher Sargent and Slade Wilks.
A Golden Eagle error in the seventh on a fly ball to left led to two more UTSA runs in the seventh and a go ahead RBI double from Matt King in the eighth, before the Golden Eagles tied the score in the bottom of the frame on a Will McGillis sacrifice fly.
UTSA reliever Simon Miller (4-3) threw the final 2 2/3 innings and gave up a run on two this with a walk and a strikeout to suffer the loss.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Simon Miller (4-3)
L: Harper, Landon (2-2)
Batting:
2B: Jonathan Tapia 1 ; Garrett Poston 1 ; Matt King 1
HR: Ryan Flores 1
RBI: Jonathan Tapia 1 ; Leyton Barry 1 ; Ryan Flores 2 ; Josh Killeen 2 ; Garrett Poston 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Leyton Barry 2 ; Shane Sirdashney 1 ; Ryan Flores 1 ; Chase Keng 1 ; Matt King 2
Batting:
2B: Ewing, Reece 1 ; Lynch, Danny 1
HR: Johnson, Blake 1
RBI: Ewing, Reece 1 ; Sargent, Christopher 1 ; Wilks, Slade 1 ; McGillis, Will 1 ; Johnson, Blake 2
SH: Montenegro, Gabe 1
SF: McGillis, Will 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Montenegro, Gabe 1 ; Ewing, Reece 1 ; Sargent, Christopher 1 ; Faust, Brady 1 ; McGillis, Will 1 ; Johnson, Blake 1
SB: Faust, Brady 1
HBP: Dickerson, Dustin 1 ; Johnson, Blake 1
