BATON ROUGE – An anomalous fifth inning would prove to be undoing of the Sun Devil Baseball team in a tough 15-3 loss to Southern Miss in the opening round of the 2019 NCAA Baseball Tournament at the Baton Rouge Regional.
The Golden Eagles recorded 12 runs in the top of the fifth, 10 of which came with two outs in a bizarre frame where USM could do no wrong.
recorded his 22home run of the season and 47of his career, moving into sole possession of third in ASU history. added his first RBI of the season late in the contest while had the game's only other RBI on a sac fly that gave ASU a 1-0 lead before the tough top of the next frame.