SAN ANTONIO — The No. 18 Southern Mississippi baseball team capped a 4-0 week that extended its winning streak to a program-record 14 games Friday with a doubleheader sweep of Texas-San Antonio at Roadrunner Field.
Southern Miss tied a season high with five home runs and scored 10 runs in the final two innings to cinch a 15-1 victory in Game 1. The Golden Eagles hit four more homers in Game 2 including three in a nine-run seventh inning that fueled a 15-9 victory in the regular-season finale for both teams.
Southern Miss (44-12, 25-5 Conference USA) swept its sixth conference series of the season and their last four by overpowering UTSA by pounding 33 hits.
In Game 1, Kirk McCarty (9-2) allowed two hits in six scoreless innings, while Bryant Bowen hit two two-run home runs and Matt Wallner, Taylor Braley, and Dylan Burdeaux hit solo shots.
Burdeaux, who went 5 of 6 in Game 2, hit a solo homer in the fifth for his second of the day and 11th of the season. In the seventh, Braley hit a grand slam for his 14th homer of the year, and Wallner and Matthew Guidry hit solo homers. For Wallner, it was his team-best 17th of the year, while Guidry hit his fourth.
Southern Miss enters next week’s C-USA baseball tournament as the top seed after sweeping all five of its C-USA road series and winning nine of 10 conference series overall. Southern Miss tied the league record of 25 wins set by East Carolina in 2004.
The Golden Eagles finished with the most regular-season wins in program history and, counting postseason play, the third most by a Southern Miss team, trailing only the squads from 2004 (45 wins) and 2003 (47 wins).
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