AUBURN, Ala. — Southern Miss baseball and Penn have reached the juncture in the college baseball postseason where fresh arms serve as the most valuable currency.
The No. 2 Golden Eagles turned a razor-thin 3-2 advantage over the No. 4 Quakers into an 11-2 win with a ninth-inning outburst Sunday night at Plainsman Park, earning the right to play a winner-take-all contest to decide the Auburn Regional's winner on Monday (2 p.m.).
That game, traditionally, is baseball's foremost test of pitching depth u2012 especially for the teams that take Southern Miss' path through the losers bracket, which forces USM (44-18) to play four games to three for Penn (34-15).