College baseball roundup: Southern Miss clinches series; Ole Miss and Mississippi State stumble on Saturday – The Vicksburg Post

HATTIESBURG — The climate is warming up, and Southern Miss is likely to be too.

Christopher Sargent homered and drove in three runs, Dustin Dickerson went 2-for-2 and scored twice, and Southern Miss defeated Arkansas State 4-1 on Saturday for its fifth consecutive victory.

Billy Oldham allowed one run and struck out seven batters in seven innings for Southern Miss (27-15, 13-7 Solar Belt Convention). Justin Storm pitched two innings of scoreless reduction for his sixth save of the season.

Sargent bought the Golden Eagles began with a two-run single within the first inning, and hit a solo house run within the sixth. Dickerson additionally hit a solo house run within the third inning.

“Clearly, that’s what we come out right here to do is win each recreation. That’s what we put together to do. It doesn’t all the time work out that means and it’s onerous to do. You’ve bought to do numerous issues proper,” Southern Miss coach Scott Berry mentioned. “What we did immediately was we had excellent pitching, actually good protection when it was offered to us, after which we had well timed hitting. There wasn’t a misplaced of offense like we’ve seen up to now 4 video games, nevertheless it was sufficient behind Oldham and Storm to win this baseball recreation.”

Brandon Hager homered within the fourth inning for the one run for Arkansas State (15-24, 5-13), which has scored two runs within the first two video games of the sequence. The finale is Sunday at 1 p.m. at Pete Taylor Park in Hattiesburg. The sport can be streamed on ESPN+.

Georgia 7, Ole Miss 3
Parks Harber homered and drove in three runs, and Charlie Goldstein pitched seven strong innings as Georgia (24-19, 8-12 Southeastern Convention) evened its sequence with Ole Miss (22-21, 4-16) Saturday in Oxford.

Harber drove in a run with a fielder’s selection within the third inning, and hit a two-run house run within the fifth to place Georgia forward 5-1.

Calvin Harris hit a two-run homer within the sixth to maintain Ole Miss in it, however Georgia tacked on two extra runs within the eighth on RBI singles by Ben Anderson and Connor Tate to make it 7-3.

Kemp Alderman additionally hit a house run for Ole Miss, his 18th of the season.

Goldstein allowed three runs and 7 hits in seven innings, however didn’t stroll a batter. He had 4 strikeouts.
The finale of the three-game sequence is Sunday at 1:30 p.m. It’s going to stream on SEC Community+.

Tennessee 12, Mississippi State 2
Tennessee (30-14, 11-10 SEC) hit 4 house runs within the first 4 innings, together with two by Christian Moore, and routed Mississippi State (24-20, 6-15) to finish a three-game sweep.

Moore hit a three-run homer within the second inning and a solo shot within the fourth. Jared Dickey and Christian Scott additionally hit three-run homers — each within the first inning — as Tennessee raced to a 12-1 lead.

Tennessee’s Drew Beam (6-2) pitched a seven-inning full recreation and allowed solely three hits and one stroll, whereas placing out seven.

Dakota Jordan hit an RBI triple and Colton Ledbetter a solo house run for Mississippi State. After successful two SEC sequence in a row, the Bulldogs have dropped the final two and 5 of its final seven video games total. They host Arkansas subsequent weekend.