Southern Miss fell behind, took the lead and never looked back in its 7-3 win over Louisiana Tech Saturday.

The weekend series is now split at a game apiece.

Two of the Bulldogs’ three runs came as the result of being walked home. With the bases loaded, J.D. Perry was hit by a pitch bringing home Cody Daigle from third and subsequently advancing Brent Diaz and Jordan Washam. Sean Ullrich was walked and advanced Washam home.

Chandler Hall hit a sacrifice fly to center field bringing home Diaz for Louisiana Tech’s final score of the game.

While Chase Scott managed to score Southern Miss’ first run on a wild pitch during the second inning, it went on to post a three-run inning of its own off of three hits.

Nick Dawson doubled to center field, which gave Tracy Hadley a chance to make it home from first giving Dawson the RBI. Dawson advanced to third once Jake Sandlin grounded out to second base. Lynch picked up an RBI after running in Dawson on a single through the right side. Lynch would then be brought home when Hunter Slater singled to center field.

Dawson later homered in the sixth inning down left field and scored again in the eighth inning from a center-field single from Dylan Burdeaux.

Burdeaux scored the final run of the game on a sacrifice fly from Sandlin.

Southern Miss pitcher Kirk McCarty threw in sixth inning striking out three players along the way. Cameron Linck, Casey Sullivan, Braden Bristo and Zack Hamilton combined for 12 strike out against the Golden Eagles.

 

Mississippi State 16, Auburn 6

Mississippi State exploded quickly in the second inning with eight runs seven hits and only one error. Elih Marrero’s ground out cleared room for Jacob Robson to score the game’s first run of the day.

The Bulldogs’ hits were powerful with range in front of them. John Holland, Jake Mangum, Gavin Collins and Brent Rooker doubled, tripled or homered during that stretch. Only Marrero, Robson and Ryan Gridley were ruled out.

Auburn’s two-run half of the inning was as close as the Tigers came to having a competitive game after holding Mississippi State scoreless in the first.

Mississippi State ended the game scoring three runs each in the seventh and eighth innings.

Austin Sexton won the game and pitched 6.2 innings giving up six runs and hits with eight strikeouts. Daniel Brown controlled the mound for 2.1 innings with three strikeouts. Sexton and Brown each walked one Tiger.

Collectively, Mississippi State came away with 21 hits for the night with only two errors. Auburn only mustered up eight hits and one error.

Jake Mangum, Nathaniel Lowe combined for eight hits among 11 at-bats. Jack Kruger and Rooker both went 3-of-5 against Auburn.

Lowe, along with Rooker and Gavin Collins, collected nine of the team’s 16 RBIs.

 

Ole Miss 7, Kentucky 5

By the end of the third inning, Kentucky scored all its runs for a commanding 5-0 lead.

Tristan Pompey homered to right field bring home Riley Mahan from first for Kentucky’s first two runs. With Zach Reks on first and Evan White on second JaVon Shelby’s left-field homer gave the Wildcats their final runs of the game.

Coincidently, it was a home run from Ole Miss that turned the game around. J.B. Woodman hit a right-field homer early in the bottom of the fourth to help his team climb out of a five-run deficit.

Three of Ole Miss’ seven scores were unearned

Connor Cloyd unearned run in the fifth came fairly easy. He was walked to first, advanced to third on a fielding error by the short stop and scored on a passed ball.

Errol Robinson recorded another unearned run on Tate Blackman’s single up the middle.

Ryan Olenek, like Cloyd , had a simple path to home plate. He singled to center field and advanced to second on a wild pitch. His scored his unearned run when Woodman was reached on by a throwing error by the second baseman.

Henri Lartigue was responsible for the Rebels’ final three runs. He homered to right field with Blackman on third and Woodman on first.