The No. 17 ranked Golden Eagles started their weekend series against Florida International (17-13) by defeating the Panthers 15-4.
Southern Miss came into the game winning six out of their last seven games, only dropping a single midweek contest to Ole Miss. In this contest against FIU, Head Coach Scott Berry wanted to set the tone early.
“FlU came out and hit back-to-back singles [in the first inning] off of Kirk [McCarty] and he was able to pitch around that,” Berry said. “That was a huge momentum swing right there to get out of that inning and give up nothing.