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Gabe Broadus Ninth-Inning RBI Single Lifts Golden Eagles over Cajuns Saturday
4/27/2024 5:39:00 PM | Baseball
HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Gabe Broadus broke open a tie game in the ninth with an RBI single to center field in leading Southern Miss to a 3-2 Sun Belt Conference victory over Louisiana Saturday afternoon at Russo Park.
The victory evened the three-game series as Southern Miss improved to 27-16 overall and 12-8 in Sun Belt play. The final game of the set will take place Sunday at 1 p.m.
With the score tied 2-2 in the ninth, Matthew Russo was hit by a pitch to start things by Ragin' Cajun closer LP Langevin, who entered at the start of the frame. After a Lawson Odom sacrifice get Russo to second, Broadus took a 1-0 Langevin pitch back up the middle and the pinch runner, Eli Collins, raced around to score what proved to the be the winning run.
Golden Eagle starter Niko Mazza provided the second fantastic start of the weekend for the Golden Eagles. He left with a 2-0 advantage after seven innings, allowing just three hits and one walk to go along with three strikeouts. He retired the last eight batters he faced in the contest.
Southern Miss scored its first two runs with solo tallies both in the second and third innings.
Davis Gillespie, who had two hits for the Golden Eagles, opened the second with a single. After a groundout to move him to second, Nick Monistere tripled to center field to knock in the game's first run. It was the first of two Monistere hits in the game, who also doubled.
Just one inning later, with two outs, Ozzie Pratt doubled to right and then scored a batter later when Slade Wilks singled up the middle to extend his hitting streak to 16 games to knock home Pratt with his 40 RBI of the year.
After Mazza, the Golden Eagles went to Colby Allen to close out the game. Allen was greeted with an infield single and a walk to open the frame, before getting a popout. That brought up Friday night's hero, Kyle DeBarge, who hit the go-ahead three-run homer in the previous night's game. He promptly singled up the middle to score two and tie the game.
Allen eventually got out of the eighth and then gave up a leadoff single to open the ninth, before fanning the last three batters he faced to collect the victory and improve to 5-2. He gave up three hits and a walk on two runs (one earned) with three strikeouts over the final two innings.
Langevin suffered the loss and fell to 4-1.
Golden Eagle Seth Smith, who had not seen any action due to injury since March 16 against Marshall, came in as a defensive replacement in the ninth for his first playing time back.
The victory evened the three-game series as Southern Miss improved to 27-16 overall and 12-8 in Sun Belt play. The final game of the set will take place Sunday at 1 p.m.
With the score tied 2-2 in the ninth, Matthew Russo was hit by a pitch to start things by Ragin' Cajun closer LP Langevin, who entered at the start of the frame. After a Lawson Odom sacrifice get Russo to second, Broadus took a 1-0 Langevin pitch back up the middle and the pinch runner, Eli Collins, raced around to score what proved to the be the winning run.
Golden Eagle starter Niko Mazza provided the second fantastic start of the weekend for the Golden Eagles. He left with a 2-0 advantage after seven innings, allowing just three hits and one walk to go along with three strikeouts. He retired the last eight batters he faced in the contest.
Southern Miss scored its first two runs with solo tallies both in the second and third innings.
Davis Gillespie, who had two hits for the Golden Eagles, opened the second with a single. After a groundout to move him to second, Nick Monistere tripled to center field to knock in the game's first run. It was the first of two Monistere hits in the game, who also doubled.
Just one inning later, with two outs, Ozzie Pratt doubled to right and then scored a batter later when Slade Wilks singled up the middle to extend his hitting streak to 16 games to knock home Pratt with his 40 RBI of the year.
After Mazza, the Golden Eagles went to Colby Allen to close out the game. Allen was greeted with an infield single and a walk to open the frame, before getting a popout. That brought up Friday night's hero, Kyle DeBarge, who hit the go-ahead three-run homer in the previous night's game. He promptly singled up the middle to score two and tie the game.
Allen eventually got out of the eighth and then gave up a leadoff single to open the ninth, before fanning the last three batters he faced to collect the victory and improve to 5-2. He gave up three hits and a walk on two runs (one earned) with three strikeouts over the final two innings.
Langevin suffered the loss and fell to 4-1.
Golden Eagle Seth Smith, who had not seen any action due to injury since March 16 against Marshall, came in as a defensive replacement in the ninth for his first playing time back.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Allen, Colby (5-2)
L: LP Langevin (4-1)
Batting:
2B: Pratt, Ozzie 1 ; Monistere, Nick 1
3B: Monistere, Nick 1
RBI: Wilks, Slade 1 ; Monistere, Nick 1 ; Broadus, Gabe 1
SH: Odom, Lawson 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Pratt, Ozzie 1 ; Gillespie, Davis 1 ; Collins, Eli 1
HBP: Pratt, Ozzie 1 ; Russo, Matthew 2
Batting:
2B: Trey LaFleur 1 ; Duncan Pastore 1
RBI: Kyle DeBarge 2
Base Running:
RUNS: John Taylor 1 ; Caleb Stelly 1
SB: Maddox Mandino 1
CS: Kyle DeBarge 1 ; Caleb Stelly 1
HBP: Conor Higgs 1
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H
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RBI
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AB
3
R
1
H
1
RBI
0
AB
5
R
0
H
1
RBI
1
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