Herd Baseball Falls in Heartbreaker in 13 Innings at Southern Miss

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HATTIESBURG, Miss. – The Marshall University Baseball team (6-12, 0-2 Sun Belt) fell in a pitching duel to the Southern Miss Golden Eagles (13-6, 2-0 Sun Belt), 2-1, in 13 innings on Saturday.

Bryce Blevins and Nicholas Weyrich combined to throw 13.1 innings giving up just three hits and two walks.

"We played our tails off today!" Herd Baseball head coach Greg Beals said after the game.

Blevins hurled a gem on the mound. The sophomore lefty went 9.0-plus innings on the bump, including the first 7.1 hitless. Blevins exited to a standing ovation on the road at Pete Taylor Park after just 90 pitches allowing only one run on two hits and a walks.

Elijah Vogelsong broke up USM starter Billy Oldham's no-hitter with a one-out homer in the top of the eighth for the first hit and run of the ballgame.

The Golden Eagles answered with a Davis Gillespie homer in the bottom half of the inning to tie the contest 1-1.

Nicholas Weyrich came on in relief of Blevins with a runner on in the ninth. The right-handed reliever struck out five Southern Miss batters across 3.1 innings giving up just one hit and one run, that was unearned.

In the bottom of the 13th, Southern Miss won the game after the umpires overturned a call at the plate, ruling Owen Ayers to be impeding the USM runner on what would have been the second out of the inning on a throw from right field by Calin Smith.

Ayers and Vogelsong each had multi-hit games, with Ayers recording his fifth and sixth doubles of the season.

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Marshall is set for game three of the series on Sunday in Hattiesburg with first pitch scheduled for 5 p.m. EST/4 p.m. CST.

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Herd Baseball Falls in Heartbreaker in 13 Innings at Southern Miss

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Team Stats

Owen Ayers

Elijah Vogelsong

Cam Harthan

Tre Hondras

Players Mentioned

Owen Ayers

Bryce Blevins

Calin Smith

Elijah Vogelsong

Nicholas Weyrich

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