Southern Miss
31-13, 0
Appalachian State
21-22, 0
Three Homers Lifts Baseball to 7-6 Victory to Complete Three-Game Sweep at App State
4/27/2025 2:51:00 PM | Baseball
The Golden Eagles (31-13 overall, 15-6 Sun Belt) won for the fifth-straight game, while recording their second league road sweep this season. The Mountaineers fell to 21-22 and 11-10 in league play.
Southern Miss jumped out to a 5-0 lead through the first three and a half innings starting with a solo run in the first. After a flyout to start the game, Nick Monistere was hit by a pitch and went to third on a Matthew Russo single. Monistere then scored on a single to right by Carson Paetow. The Eagles could have done more damage but left the bases loaded in the frame.
Russo made the score 2-0 with a solo home run to right for his 12th of the campaign.
Drey Barrett belted his eighth homer of the year in the fourth to make it 5-0, before the Mountaineers responded with four runs in the bottom of the frame with four runs. App State opened the frame by stringing together four singles and a walk to account for the first two runs. The final two runs scored on a throwing on a ground ball to Barrett, before the inning ended with an out at the plate at the end of that play.
A fifth-inning Nick Monistere sacrifice fly made the score 6-4, before the lead was cut again to one after the Mountaineers added a run on an RBI groundout by Joseph Zamora.
Ozzie Pratt homered in the seventh, a solo shot for his sixth of 2025, and App State added a solo run in the bottom of the ninth to complete the scoring.
Golden Eagle reliever Kros Sivley threw two scoreless innings to get the win and improve to 3-1 with two strikeouts, while Landen Payne earned his third save by throwing the final two innings on nine pitches.
App State starter Everette Harris suffered the loss and fell to 1-4 after giving up two runs on five hits and a walk over the first 2 1/3 innings.
Southern Miss returns home for the first of seven consecutive home games Tuesday when they play New Orleans. Game time is set for 6 p.m.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Sivley, Kros (3-1)
L: Everette Harris (1-4)
S: Payne, Landen (3)
Batting:
2B: Cook, Jake 1 ; Higdon, Ben 1
HR: Russo, Matthew 1 ; Barrett, Drey 1 ; Pratt, Ozzie 1
RBI: Monistere, Nick 1 ; Russo, Matthew 1 ; Paetow, Carson 1 ; Barrett, Drey 3 ; Pratt, Ozzie 1
SH: Cook, Jake 1
SF: Monistere, Nick 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Cook, Jake 1 ; Monistere, Nick 2 ; Russo, Matthew 1 ; Barrett, Drey 1 ; Stockman, Tucker 1 ; Pratt, Ozzie 1
HBP: Monistere, Nick 2 ; Pratt, Ozzie 1
PO: Monistere, Nick 1
Batting:
2B: Tyler Figueroa 1
HR: Kameron Miller 1
RBI: Joseph Zamora 1 ; Kameron Miller 1 ; Riley Luft 1 ; Tanner McCammon 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Kameron Miller 1 ; Tyler Lichtenberger 1 ; Tyler Figueroa 1 ; Tanner McCammon 2 ; Charlie Evans 1
SB: Tyler Lichtenberger 1
