Sunday, April 14
Decatur, Ga.
12 p.m.
Southern Miss
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at
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Georgia State
Baseball Salvages Final Game of Georgia State Series with 14-9 Win
4/14/2024 4:46:00 PM | Baseball
DECATUR, Ga. – Southern Miss rallied from a 6-1 deficit and got six strong innings from reliever Kros Sivley as the Golden Eagles won the final game of the Georgia State series 14-9 Sunday afternoon at the GSU Baseball Complex.
The Golden Eagles improved to 22-14 overall and 9-6 in Sun Belt Conference action, while the Panthers fell to 18-17 and 9-6.
With Southern Miss trailing 6-1 in the third, Sivley came in for starter Will Armistead with two on and two out. He enticed the first batter he faced to lineout to second to end the threat.
Sivley went on to throw a career-high innings total and limited the Panthers to three runs on six hits with a walk and six strikeouts to earn the victory and improve to 2-3.
He ran into some trouble in the fifth as he gave up three singles to open the stanza to load the bases with no outs. Sivley, though, then got a dribbler in front of the plate that catcher Tucker Stockman tagged the runner out at home from third, before getting consecutive strikeouts to end the inning.
Sivley kept GSU off the board until the ninth as he allowed a three-run homer which proved to be the final score.
Down 6-5 in the seventh, the Golden Eagles took their first lead since the opening frame as they scored three runs to go ahead. Nick Monistere led off the inning with a walk. After a stolen base and strikeout, pinch hitter Matthew Russo singled to center to tie things, before Dalton McIntyre followed with an opposite field homer for second of the year and the advantage for good.
A two-run homer from Slade Wilks an inning later cut the deficit to one run as the senior from Columbia blasted his team-leading ninth of the year.
Southern Miss then added four insurance runs in the ninth with Davis Gillespie driving in a run with a single, before Monistere cleared the bases with a double to left.
After Southern Miss scored a solo tally in the first inning for the third-straight game on a Ozzie Pratt home run to center for his second of the year, the Panthers responded the same way they did the two previous days with three runs in their bottom of the frame, including a solo home run from Jesse Donohoe, his sixth, before collected three more straight hits that translating into a three-run frame.
GSU extended the lead to 5-1 in the second on a run-scoring double from Will Mize and a RBI single from Michael Maginnis.
JoJo Jackson extended the lead to 6-1 with a solo home run in the third for his fifth of the year.
The visitors closed the gap in the fifth with a pair of runs. Davis Gillespie opened the frame with an opposite field double before Carson Paetow belted his eighth homer of the year, a two-run shot right center.
The Golden Eagles extended the lead in the eighth as both Paetow and Monistere drew two-out walks, before Stockman doubled into right to make the score 10-6.
GSU reliever Davis Chastain gave up five runs on three hits with three walks and two strikeouts over 1 2/3 innings to suffer the loss and fall to 1-3.
The Golden Eagles return home Tuesday for the first of four-straight home games when they entertain Nicholls Tuesday at 6 p.m.
The Golden Eagles improved to 22-14 overall and 9-6 in Sun Belt Conference action, while the Panthers fell to 18-17 and 9-6.
With Southern Miss trailing 6-1 in the third, Sivley came in for starter Will Armistead with two on and two out. He enticed the first batter he faced to lineout to second to end the threat.
Sivley went on to throw a career-high innings total and limited the Panthers to three runs on six hits with a walk and six strikeouts to earn the victory and improve to 2-3.
He ran into some trouble in the fifth as he gave up three singles to open the stanza to load the bases with no outs. Sivley, though, then got a dribbler in front of the plate that catcher Tucker Stockman tagged the runner out at home from third, before getting consecutive strikeouts to end the inning.
Sivley kept GSU off the board until the ninth as he allowed a three-run homer which proved to be the final score.
Down 6-5 in the seventh, the Golden Eagles took their first lead since the opening frame as they scored three runs to go ahead. Nick Monistere led off the inning with a walk. After a stolen base and strikeout, pinch hitter Matthew Russo singled to center to tie things, before Dalton McIntyre followed with an opposite field homer for second of the year and the advantage for good.
A two-run homer from Slade Wilks an inning later cut the deficit to one run as the senior from Columbia blasted his team-leading ninth of the year.
Southern Miss then added four insurance runs in the ninth with Davis Gillespie driving in a run with a single, before Monistere cleared the bases with a double to left.
After Southern Miss scored a solo tally in the first inning for the third-straight game on a Ozzie Pratt home run to center for his second of the year, the Panthers responded the same way they did the two previous days with three runs in their bottom of the frame, including a solo home run from Jesse Donohoe, his sixth, before collected three more straight hits that translating into a three-run frame.
GSU extended the lead to 5-1 in the second on a run-scoring double from Will Mize and a RBI single from Michael Maginnis.
JoJo Jackson extended the lead to 6-1 with a solo home run in the third for his fifth of the year.
The visitors closed the gap in the fifth with a pair of runs. Davis Gillespie opened the frame with an opposite field double before Carson Paetow belted his eighth homer of the year, a two-run shot right center.
The Golden Eagles extended the lead in the eighth as both Paetow and Monistere drew two-out walks, before Stockman doubled into right to make the score 10-6.
GSU reliever Davis Chastain gave up five runs on three hits with three walks and two strikeouts over 1 2/3 innings to suffer the loss and fall to 1-3.
The Golden Eagles return home Tuesday for the first of four-straight home games when they entertain Nicholls Tuesday at 6 p.m.
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