Southern Miss
33-15, 18-7
ULM
16-33, 5-19
Baseball Wins Series Opener at ULM 8-4
5/12/2023 10:35:00 PM | Baseball
The sophomore right fielder from Vancleave, Miss., delivered a two-run, sixth-inning single on his 21st birthday to break open a tie game in leading No. 25 Southern Miss to a Sun Belt Conference series 8-4 win over ULM Friday evening at Lou St. Amant Field.
The Golden Eagles (33-15 overall, 18-7 Sun Belt) won for a nation's best 11-straight time, while ULM fell to 16-33, 5-19.
With the score tied 1-1 in the sixth, Slade Wilks opened the sixth with a walk before going to third on a Christopher Sargent double, who finished the game with three hits to improve his team-best hitting streak to 13 games.
After a strikeout, the Warhawks went to the bullpen after starter Nicholas Judice held the visitors to a run on four hits with two walks and two strikeouts.
With two runners on, Reece Ewing walked to load the bases before Paetow drilled a shot to left field that scored both Wilks and Sargent. Ewing later scored on a bases loaded walk, while Dustin Dickerson was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to conclude the four-run frame as it took three Warhawk pitchers to complete the stanza.
Dickerson, who ended the game with four RBI, knocked in three more runs in the eighth with a bases-clearing double to make the score 8-2. It was Dickerson's 57th career double, putting in a four-way tie for third place at the school with Dylan Burdeaux (2014-17), Jarrett Hoffpauir (2002-04) and Kyle Logan (1994-77).
The Golden Eagles jumped out in front in the second with a solo home run by Sargent, who registered his 10th round-tripper of the year. It also marked Sargent's 47th career long ball, putting him third on the school's career listing.
Tanner Hall went seven innings for the Golden Eagles to capture the victory and improve to 10-3 this season. Hall surrendered two runs on four hits with a pair of walks and 10 strikeouts to limit the Warhawks. ULM only managed a third-inning RBI groundout and an RBI double from Jarrett McDonald in the sixth.
Hall recorded his 20th career victory to move into No. 10 by himself on the Golden Eagle career chart.
Kros Sivley threw the final two innings and gave up two runs on four hits with a pair of strikeouts, giving up a sacrifice fly to McDonald in the eighth and an RBI double to Matt Abshire in the ninth to finish the game.
Judice suffered the loss and fell to 2-3.
The series continues with a 4 p.m., Saturday contest.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Hall, Tanner (10-3)
L: Judice, Nicholas (2-3)
Batting:
2B: Dickerson, Dustin 1 ; Sargent, Christopher 1 ; Paetow, Carson 1
HR: Sargent, Christopher 1
RBI: Etzel, Matthew 1 ; Dickerson, Dustin 4 ; Sargent, Christopher 1 ; Paetow, Carson 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Etzel, Matthew 1 ; Wilks, Slade 1 ; Sargent, Christopher 2 ; Ewing, Reece 1 ; Paetow, Carson 2 ; Montenegro, Rodrigo 1
SB: Etzel, Matthew 1 ; Monistere, Nick 1
CS: Dickerson, Dustin 1
HBP: Etzel, Matthew 1 ; Dickerson, Dustin 1 ; Montenegro, Rodrigo 1
Batting:
2B: Dupont, Kade 1 ; McDonald, Jarrett 1 ; Washburn, Travis 1 ; Abshire, Matt 1 ; Jones, Carson 1
RBI: McDonald, Jarrett 2 ; Abshire, Matt 1 ; Jones, Carson 1
SH: Abshire, Matt 1
SF: McDonald, Jarrett 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Dupont, Kade 1 ; Zmejkoski, Jayson 1 ; Washburn, Travis 1 ; Jones, Carson 1
CS: Dupont, Kade 1
HBP: Dupont, Kade 1
