Troy will need to beat the Eagles twice to advance. If Inwere a betting man- Harris probably gets the ball- but Oss is a pitching guru so we shall see.

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Here are 3 new coaches that I was told about yesterday. None of these habe been confirmed by USM.

New MBB assts

Win Case, Ole Miss
Luke Adams, Tarleton State
Scott Moses, Southwest MS CC Asst

In college basketball today, assistants are hired based on who and what players they can bring in.

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In NCAA college baseball, a complete game (CG) is achieved when a pitcher starts and finishes the entire game for their team, even if it's shortened or goes into extra innings. If a pitcher is the only one to appear for their team, they earn the complete game, regardless of how many innings are played.

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I don't see Southern Miss and Ole Miss hosting. With Ole Miss's win over Florida yesterday many think they locked up a host spot. Thoughts?

Sun Belt Tournament Notebook: Brown pitches ODU to win, USM rolls, Eikhoff shines​

Southern Miss RHP JB Middleton during the Sun Belt Baseball Championships at Riverwalk Stadium on May 21, 2025 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photograph by AJ Henderson / Sun Belt Conference)
by: JOE HEALYMay 22, 2025

Old Dominion 4 Troy 2​

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Troy caught some bad luck when it entered this season’s Sun Belt Tournament as the three seed, just as it was the two years prior.
That draw meant a 9:00 AM start for its first game of the event and guaranteed a matchup against a rested team also playing its first game, not one that would have played in the single-elimination round the day prior, as is the case with opponents for the top seeds Coastal Carolina and Southern Miss.
It also meant the Trojans’ lineup would have to deal with ODU lefthander Dylan Brown, one of the league’s top starting pitchers, and on Wednesday, in a 4-2 win for the Monarchs, he lived up to that advanced billing. He threw 6.2 innings, giving up four hits and two runs with one walk and nine strikeouts, lowering his ERA on the season to 4.06 and pushing his strikeout total to 102 in 82 innings.
About six weeks ago, Brown started against Troy and gave up three runs in five innings with three walks and four strikeouts in a game the Trojans won 4-3. This time around, the difference, at least to those in the Troy dugout, was his usage of the slider.
“I do think his slider got a little better from last time if you were to ask me to go Johnny Pitching Coach,” said Troy head coach Skylar Meade. “I do think his slider got a little tighter, and honestly, that seemed to be just a confidence thing in my opinion.”
After the sixth inning, the ODU coaching staff was ready to take the ball from Brown, but the lefthander (somewhat) successfully pleaded his case to stay in.
“We were going to get him after six and he said ‘I got one more in me,’” Old Dominion head coach Chris Finwood said of the conversation with his starting pitcher. “We said ‘we’ll compromise and when you get back to the top, we’ll bring Ben (Moore) in.’”
Once the Troy lineup came back around to the top, Brown was indeed lifted and Moore, a fellow lefty, came on. He promptly struck out leadoff hitter Blake Cavill swinging on a 96-mph fastball and then went six up and six down over the final two innings to close it out.
“I knew I’d be coming in later in the game looking for a win, and I’m really just talking one pitch at a time (and) not thinking about the next guy, next pitch, next day,” Moore said.
Old Dominion during the Sun Belt Baseball Championships at Riverwalk Stadium on May 21, 2025 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photograph by AJ Henderson / Sun Belt Conference)
Offensively, ODU wasn’t overwhelming, but it was opportunistic, with all three run-scoring hits coming with two outs.
In the first, that was an RBI double off the bat of first baseman Zach Leite. In the fourth, a run scored via a Scottie Young bunt hit, and with the game tied 2-2 in the seventh, the last big hit was a two-run single for senior right fielder Luke Waters.
“We scored all four of our runs with two outs and in baseball, timely hitting is kind of the key,” Finwood said.
With the win, ODU moves to the good side of the bracket and will take on Southern Miss Thursday afternoon. And with another quality lefty starter ready to go in Blake Morgan, the Monarchs will be tough once again.
Troy, meanwhile, needs to bounce back in a big way on Thursday against Texas State if it wants to feel good about its postseason positioning. Right after the loss to ODU, the Trojans’ RPI dropped to 46, which is fringy at best for an at-large team out of the Sun Belt. A 3-8 record against Q1 opponents isn’t helping, either, though Troy will get some credit for having a non-conference strength of schedule ranking that sat at 52 as of Wednesday afternoon.
More than anything else, though, whether it’s in a regional or simply trying to work its way back through the loser’s bracket here in Montgomery, it will simply have to play better.
“We just have to be better offensively. That does not mean by any stretch that we’re perfect defensively, pitching-wise or whatever,” Meade said. “In tourney baseball you’ve got to score some runs (and) you get deeper into teams’ bullpens. I could put it on one of my hands the number of good swings we took today. It just wasn’t good swings, so that’s unfortunate, but that’s what we have. We’re going to have to have that, especially to have a long ride.”

Southern Miss 9 Texas State 1​

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — If you’re one of the top seeds in a conference tournament, your early-round games are all about winning in no-stress fashion and minimizing how many pitches your top pitchers throw.
Southern Miss checked all those boxes Wednesday afternoon with a 9-1 win over Texas State to start its run in the Sun Belt Tournament.
Ace righthander JB Middleton, a surefire all-American, set the tone for the Golden Eagles, which he’s done just about every week this season. He threw seven innings, giving up five hits and one run with one walk and 10 strikeouts.
“For the most part, I thought I had all three (pitches) working,” Middleton said. “Just trying to execute pitches and get quick outs.”
It’s the eighth time this season that he’s thrown seven or more innings against a Sun Belt opponent and the fifth time he’s had a double-digit strikeout total. For the season, he has a 2.01 ERA, a miniscule .168 opponent batting average and 114 strikeouts compared to 24 walks in 98.1 innings.
Those numbers are eye-popping, but two things that aren’t so easy to discern with the naked eye stand out when you watch him pitch.
One is the way he’s able to manipulate his fastball depending on what he wants to accomplish. He can use a four-seamer that carries through the zone, and with velocity in the mid 90s, there are plenty of swings and misses to be found on that pitch. But he can also throw a two-seamer to generate ground balls and cut his fastball, which in the low 90s pairs well with his slider in the mid-to-high 80s.
The other is the way he’s developed the skill of pacing himself to get deep into games. It’s not just that he pushes himself to throw seven or eight innings but that his stuff holds all the way through. And fittingly, in Wednesday’s outing, he was still sitting 94-95 mph with his fastball in the sixth inning and he had four combined strikeouts in his final two frames.
After Middleton left, veteran lefthander Kros Sivley came on and retired all six batters he faced to close it out without incident, and did so on just 18 pitches, suggesting that he’ll be available again sooner rather than later.
Offensively, USM piled up 14 hits, seven walks and four hit batters, scoring in six of its eight half innings at the plate.
The unlikely big blow of the game came in the form of a two-run home run off the bat of leadoff man Jake Cook in the fourth inning that made it a 5-0 game and set USM on course to run away with things.
Cook isn’t an unlikely hero, because he’s an excellent catalyst who is batting .353/.434/.475 on the season, but he is an unlikely player to have hit a round-tripper that came off the bat at 104 mph because he had only had one homer all season before Wednesday. Though maybe it shouldn’t be considered much of a surprise.
“To be honest, I’ve been hitting more homers in BP here recently, so I kind of figured I was going to get on a ball here sooner or later, but I’m never really expecting to hit a home run,” Cook said.
USM is a motivated bunch in this tournament as it looks to put together a resume that ends with the team hosting regional games in Hattiesburg in 10 days, and with the way it played Wednesday, it looks the part.
“The way the guys played today was clean in all aspects—pitching, defense, offense—being able to keep stacking on runs once you’ve got a lead was huge, and JB was lights out again, covering seven innings, 10 strikeouts and only five hits and one run. And then finishing up with Kros to get the last six outs, so that bolstered our bullpen moving forward. Just very proud of the overall effort,” Southern Miss head coach Christian Ostrander said.

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