Southern Miss (18-9, 8-2 C-USA) trailed 3-0 at the start of the first inning after Marshall (18-11, 6-4 C-USA) hung four hits on starting pitcher Walker Powell.
“If you give up a big inning you do it in the first and you have the rest of the game to recover and we saw that with South Alabama after we put up a five [runs] they had eight more innings to recover from it and tonight same way,” Southern Miss coach Scott Berry said. “[Marshall] had a three [run lead], but we had eight innings to recover but the difference was that Walker put all zeros up after the three spot.