PEARL — Trustmark Park has become a chamber of horrors for Mississippi State lately.

Southern Miss only added to the misery.

The Golden Eagles piled on 16 hits and all nine starters scored at least one run in a 14-3 victory over Mississippi State on Wednesday.

The season’s first meeting between the two was a collision of teams headed in opposite directions.

The Golden Eagles continued their recent hot streak, taking home their eighth consecutive victory and their first over a Southeastern Conference foe this season.

Southern Miss (26-17) gets a big boost going into a huge home series against Conference USA rival East Carolina, which starts Friday.

“Things are really coming together,” said Southern Miss designated hitter Adam Doleac, who went 2-for-2 with three RBIs. “We’ve got a lot of new faces and it’s taken time for us to start playing together. There’s nobody on the mound or at the plate that we don’t have confidence in that they can get the big out or get the big hit.”

The other side of the ledger isn’t so cheery.

Mississippi State (20-25) dropped its eighth game in a row and third straight at Trustmark Park after falling 3-1 to SWAC foe Jackson State on Tuesday. It was the first time the Bulldogs had been beaten by JSU in 18 years.

The schedule doesn’t get any friendlier for State with a weekend series at Auburn (30-15, 12-9) starting on Friday.

Trey Johnson (0-2) took the loss for MSU, which had a horrid night on the mound. The Bulldogs used six different pitchers and all struggled, combining for eight walks and four hit batsmen.

“These kids are just going to have to grow up,” MSU coach John Cohen said. “It’s a different thing that happens to us every night. You’ve got to make your breaks in baseball and we’re not doing the little things to get lucky.”

Despite the lopsided final score, State was right in the contest for most of it thanks to the Golden Eagles’ inability to hit early with runners in scoring position. USM left 11 runners in scoring position.

The high-water mark for the Bulldogs was in the bottom of the sixth, when they were down just 5-3. After Ryan Collins doubled to lead off the frame, Paxton King fielded Jonathan Ogden’s bunt and easily threw out Collins at third. King induced an easy groundball from Sam Frost for the second out, but a couple of walks loaded the bases for Connor Powers.

USM coach Scott Berry rolled the dice, sending out freshman Jay Myrick. Myrick fell behind Powers 2-0 with two straight curveballs, but caught Powers looking fastball with a third straight curve and induced an easy tapper to third for the final out of the inning.

“To get him to end that inning like that was huge,” Berry said. “Powers is a really good hitter and for a freshman to take his game to that level that you’ve got to be at is very impressive.”

In the top of the seventh, the Golden Eagles put the contest out of reach. Forced to leave struggling Corey Collins in the game, the Bulldogs quickly started to implode. Tyler Koelling tripled with one out, the ball falling just shy of landing in Trustmark’s home bullpen. Kameron Brunty went opposite field with a nice line drive and the rout was on. An RBI single by B.A Vollmuth and an error off a hard-hit liner off Frost’s glove allowed two to score, ending Collins’ night. RBI singles by Dillon Day and Joey Archer and a sacrifice fly by Travis Graves off Greg Houston capped a seven-run outburst.