Box score

HATTIESBURG, Miss. – Southern Miss recorded 18 hits, eight of which went for extra bases, to defeat University of South Alabama baseball 15-3 Wednesday at Pete Taylor Park.

Eight Southern Miss starters recorded hits in the game, while five Golden Eagles recorded multiple hits.

Adam Doleac went 3-for-5 with two doubles, five RBI and a run scored to lead the Southern Miss attack. Marc Bourgeois went 4-for-4 with two doubles, three runs scored and an RBI. Kameron Brunty, Isaac Rodriguez, Travis Creel and Mark Ellis drove in two runs apiece.

USM right-hander Boomer Scarborough (1-0) earned the win in 6 2/3 innings pitched, and allowed three runs on six hits while striking out six and walking two.

Jaguar right-hander Jeff Miller (0-2) suffered the loss in 3 1/3 innings, allowing five runs on four hits while striking out two and issuing three walks.

Brad Hook went 2-for-2 with a run scored and a walk to lead South Alabama at the plate. Jordan Patterson added a double and two RBI.

With the game scoreless in the top of the fourth inning, the Jags loaded the bases on consecutive singles by Nolan Earley and Brent Tanner and a walk by Hook. But Scarborough worked out of the one-out bases-loaded jam with consecutive strikeouts to end the Jaguar threat.

Southern Mississippi broke the scoreless tie in the bottom of the fourth inning when B.A. Vollmuth homered to right field to give the Golden Eagles a 1-0 lead. Miller had held USM hitless to that point, however, Doleac extended the USM lead to 3-0 with a two-run double to right-center field later in the inning. Creel then doubled to left field to score two and push the Golden Eagle lead to 5-0.

USM (16-4) added three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning on an RBI single by Rodriguez and two-run double to left-center field by Doleac to push their lead to 8-0.

USA answered to score three runs in the top of third inning to cut the USM lead to 8-3. Hook reached on a hit by pitch to lead off the inning and later scored on a wild pitch. Patterson then delivered a two-out double off the center field wall to score Trey Sorrells and Jerry Roam.

Southern Miss added to its lead with a seven-run eighth inning aided by a two-run single by Brunty, an RBI doubles by Ellis and Bourgeois and RBI singles by Rodriguez, Doleac and Ellis.

South Alabama (11-9) will return to action this weekend when it hosts Louisiana-Monroe in its Sun Belt Conference home opener, beginning Friday at 6 p.m. at Stanky Field.

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