BATON ROUGE, La. — Storme Cooper and Matt Wallner each homered during a 12-run fifth inning, and Southern Mississippi racked up 17 hits in a 15-3 victory over Arizona State on Friday in the opening game of the NCAA Baton Rouge regional.
Danny Lynch was 3-for-5 with a home run, double and four runs batted in for the Golden Eagles (39-19), who won the Conference USA tournament last week and have won six straight.
The Sun Devils (37-18) took a 1-0 lead on Lyle Lin's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the fourth before Southern Miss broke the game open against starting pitcher Alec Marsh (9-4) and reliever Blake Burzell.