BATON ROUGE– After leaving the bases loaded and trailing 1-0 in the fifth inning to Arizona State, Southern Miss found itself needing a spark. Just a week and a half since the Rice game, Storme Cooper on cue lit the fuse in the Golden Eagle lineup with a solo home run.
“I think if you look at the body of work that was done in that game you can’t help but look at 12 runs scored in the fifth inning,” Southern Miss coach Scott Berry said. “Before that there in the third I think we missed on an opportunity with [runners] at first and second with nobody out on top of the order and we didn’t get any runs in.