Southern Miss baseball live score updates vs Coastal Carolina: Golden Eagles face Chanticleers
HATTIESBURG — Southern Miss baseball is at home this weekend for a crucial Sun Belt Conference series against Coastal Carolina.
The Golden Eagles (28-17, 12-9 Sun Belt) are weathering a storm of pitching injuries but rallied for a 5-4 victory over New Orleans on Tuesday. Gabe Broadus delivered the go-ahead hit in the eighth inning and Colby Allen was stupendous out of the bullpen to shut the door in the final two innings.
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Coastal Carolina (27-17, 11-10) is one game behind Southern Miss in the conference standings but has an RPI of 23 to Southern Miss' 46. The Chanticleers have lost five straight games and six of their last seven. Last weekend, they were swept at home by Troy while being outscored 34-13. Coastal Carolina has a powerful offense though that's scored 398 runs, the 12th most in the country. Third baseman Sam Antonacci is fourth in the country in on-base percentage (.550).
Follow along here for live score updates from the series.
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Southern Miss vs. Coastal Carolina start time
Friday: 6 p.m.
Saturday: 2 p.m.
Sunday: 11 a.m.
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Southern Miss baseball score updates vs. Coastal Carolina
Probable starting pitchers (Southern Miss vs. Coastal Carolina)
Friday: Billy Oldham (5-1, 3.96 ERA), RHP, Sr. vs. Riley Eikhoff (5-0, 4.96 ERA), RHP, R-Jr.
Saturday: Niko Mazza (6-3, 4.25 ERA), RHP, Jr. vs. Bryce Shaffer (1-4, 4.65 ERA), LHP, Sr.
Sunday: TBA vs. Cameron Flukey (2-2, 5.75 ERA), RHP, Fr.
Game 1: Southern Miss 7, Coastal Carolina 2
Billy Oldham threw a career-high 11 strikeouts over seven innings while conceding two runs. Southern Miss had 15 hits as a team, with six batters posting multiple hits.
Southern Miss baseball schedule 2024
Next four opponents:
May 3-5: vs. Coastal Carolina
May 10-12: at Arkansas State
May 14: vs. Ole Miss
May 16-18: vs. Texas State
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Sam Sklar is the Southern Miss beat reporter for the Hattiesburg American. Email him at ssklar@hattiesb.gannett.com and follow him on X @sklarsam_.
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