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Southern Miss baseball continues search for weekend opponents

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On the season premiere of "The LeeBo & Irby Show," co-hosts LeeMarcus Boyd and Mason Irby are joined by guest Luke Reynolds. Jason Munz/Hattiesburg American

Unless something changes, and quickly, Southern Miss will find itself taking a rare in-season weekend off.

The baseball program, try as it might, has not identified a willing suitor to fill any of the dates that came open when the threat of inclement weather forced the Golden Eagles to back out of a five-team tournament at Stephen F. Austin. The team’s inclusion in that tournament only came about when Mississippi’s “religious freedom” bill (House Bill 1523) resulted in the cancellation of a planned three-game home series against New York’s Stony Brook University.