Southern Miss
40-17
(6) App State
30-25
Baseball Run Rules App State Saturday to Reach Sun Belt Conference Title Game
5/27/2023 8:26:00 PM | Baseball
The Golden Eagles improved to 40-17 and reached the 40-win total for the seventh-straight season, tops in Division I baseball. Southern Miss will play the winner of the Coastal Carolina-Louisiana game that was played later Saturday evening for the championship, Sunday, in a 1 p.m., contest. The game can be seen on ESPN+ and heard on an affiliate of the Southern Miss Sports Network.
Armistead limited the Mountaineers (30-25) to an unearned run on four hits with two walks and three strikeouts to improve to 2-0 on the season. It marked the third complete by a Golden Eagle this season and second in this tournament.
The sophomore from Mooreville, Miss., worked out of a jam in the second with two runners on and then again in the fifth. In that fifth inning, two were on with no outs when CJ Boyd lined into a double play to Danny Lynch at third that effectively ended that Mountaineer rally.
The only run the Mountaineers scored was on a sacrifice fly by Xavier Moronta in the third. Boyd singled with one out and then went to third on a failed picked off attempt that resulted in an error on first baseman Christopher Sargent.
Sargent, though, had already put the Golden Eagles up for good in the first with a two-run double as the squad scored in five different innings.
Matthew Etzel, who along with Reece Ewing had three hits, singled in a run in the second. Southern Miss then opened the game up with a four-run third. After Ewing started things with a single,
Lynch doubled Ewing home. Another double, this time by Nick Monistere, scored Lynch. Monistere then scored on a double by Etzel before Dustin Dickerson drove in Etzel on a single.
Up 7-1, Carson Paetow extended the lead when he doubled home a pair of Golden Eagles in the sixth. Southern Miss finished its scoring with a moonshot homer – his team-high 19th - that hit high off the light standard in right-center field before Lynch ended the game on a sacrifice fly in run-rule fashion.
App State starter Xander Hamilton (8-4) gave up three runs on three hits with two walks and one strikeout over an 1 1/3 to suffer the loss.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Armistead, Will (2-0)
L: Xander Hamilton (8-4)
Batting:
RBI: Xavier Moronta 1
SH: Austin St. Laurent 1
SF: Xavier Moronta 1
Base Running:
RUNS: CJ Boyd 1
SB: CJ Boyd 1
HBP: Hunter Wilder 1
Batting:
2B: Etzel, Matthew 1 ; Sargent, Christopher 1 ; Lynch, Danny 1 ; Monistere, Nick 1 ; Paetow, Carson 2
HR: Wilks, Slade 1
RBI: Etzel, Matthew 2 ; Dickerson, Dustin 1 ; Wilks, Slade 1 ; Sargent, Christopher 2 ; Lynch, Danny 2 ; Monistere, Nick 1 ; Paetow, Carson 2
SF: Lynch, Danny 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Etzel, Matthew 1 ; Dickerson, Dustin 1 ; Wilks, Slade 2 ; Sargent, Christopher 1 ; Ewing, Reece 2 ; Lynch, Danny 2 ; Monistere, Nick 1 ; Paetow, Carson 1
SB: Etzel, Matthew 1
HBP: Sargent, Christopher 1 ; Monistere, Nick 1 ; Johnson, Blake 2
