A day after both teams put up big numbers offensively, the pitchers dominated the action on Saturday as Western Kentucky could not get its bats going in a 3-0 loss to No. 18 Southern Miss in the second game of a weekend baseball series in Hattiesburg, Miss.
The series finale on Sunday will start at 1 p.m. CT. Redshirt-sophomore lefty Ryan Thurston (3-3, 3.42 ERA) will get the ball for WKU (24-23 overall, 10-13 Conference USA).
Both clubs were kept quiet through the opening three innings before Southern Miss (33-14, 17-6) pushed across a pair of runs on four hits in the bottom of the fourth.