By JOEL COLEMAN
sports@starkvilledailynews.com
For seven and a half innings on Saturday night, it seemed Mississippi State was bound to play another day. Then, courtesy of late-inning disaster, MSU’s Omaha dreams fell completely apart.
Arizona, trailing by four runs entering the bottom of the eighth inning, came from behind to tie the game before ultimately defeating State 6-5 in 11 innings to win the Starkville Super Regional and put an end to the Bulldogs’ season.
Through everything, MSU starting pitcher Austin Sexton, who left the game in the sixth with a lead, was convinced the Bulldogs were going to win and push the best-of-three series to a deciding third game.