College baseball roundup: Southern Miss, Mississippi State take critical conference losses – The Vicksburg Post

HATTIESBURG — Southern Miss’ late-season stoop continued Friday night time, and now it’s margin for error within the Convention USA championship race is gone.

UTSA batted round and scored six runs within the high of the sixth inning, and rode that rally to an 8-7 win over Southern Miss at Pete Taylor Park.

UTSA (33-16, 17-8 Convention USA) closed to inside one recreation of Southern Miss (36-14, 18-7) for first place in Convention USA, within the first of three video games this weekend between the league’s frontrunners. Sport two is Saturday at 2 p.m, and the finale is Sunday at 11 a.m.

Southern Miss has misplaced six of its final 9 video games, in addition to its final two C-USA sequence coming into this weekend. It led Friday’s sequence opener 3-1 after Carson Paetow hit a three-run residence run within the fifth inning, however issues shortly unraveled within the sixth.

Ryan Flores led off with a single and was the primary of 11 UTSA batters to come back to the plate within the inning. The Roadrunners stitched collectively 5 singles — together with run-scoring hits by Sammy Diaz, Austin Ochoa and Flores on his second journey to the plate — to surge forward 7-3.

Southern Miss scored within the sixth, seventh and eighth innings however by no means regained the lead or tied the sport.

Diaz completed 3-for-4 with two RBIs for UTSA, and Leyton Barry had two hits and two RBIs. Paetow completed with 4 RBIs for Southern Miss, and likewise scored two runs.

Texas A&M 8, Mississippi State 7
Troy Claunch hit a bases-clearing double within the backside of the seventh inning to provide Texas A&M the lead, and the Aggies held on to beat Mississippi State within the opener of a three-game Southeastern Convention sequence.

R.J. Yeager, Brad Cumbest and Kamren James all homered for Mississippi State, which led 7-4 earlier than Texas A&M (31-16, 15-10 SEC) put collectively a four-run rally within the backside of the seventh.

Texas A&M loaded the bases and scored a run off of 5 walks in a six-batter span. Claunch then hit a two-out double to proper middle subject to clear the bases and put the Aggies forward 8-7.

Mississippi State loaded the bases with two outs within the ninth inning, however couldn’t get the tying run residence.

Mississippi State (25-25, 9-16), the defending nationwide champion, misplaced its seventh consecutive recreation. It remained tied with Kentucky for the ultimate spot within the upcoming SEC Match.

The Bulldogs and Aggies will play towards Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at midday.

Ole Miss 4, LSU 2, suspended
Ole Miss and LSU made it into the third inning Friday night time in Baton Rouge earlier than heavy rain pressured them to droop their sequence opener. Ole Miss led 4-2 when play was halted.

The sport will resume Saturday at 11 a.m., with LSU batting with no outs and no person on within the backside of the third.
Sport two of the sequence will observe 50 minutes after the conclusion of recreation one. Each video games will likely be nine-inning contests.

The rest of recreation one will stream reside on SEC Community+. The TV project for recreation two is but to be decided. Each video games might be heard on radio on 107.7 FM.