USM’s Danny Lynch brings generational postseason experience to Hattiesburg Regional

Southern Miss baseball is now just three days away from hosting the program’s third NCAA Regional and its first since 2017.

Also, the first-ever home regional for a Lynch brother wearing number 26 finally after an eight combined years at USM.

Turning back the clock of Golden Eagles past, older brother Tim Lynch was a senior on the 2016 team that started this current run of six straight regionals by winning the Conference USA Tournament at Pete Taylor Park.

But it wasn’t until 2019 that the torch was officially passed to younger brother Danny Lynch who hit .533 in last week’s C-USA Tournament.

Not quite the storybook ending for the junior third baseman and company, but it still could be. “I didn’t even know what Southern Miss was until my brother got offered his senior year of high school, which I was in seventh grade. And so, we came up here, and I was like, wow, I didn’t know college baseball – I didn’t know this many fans came. I didn’t know it was this exciting. And so obviously, once I came here, I loved it and it’s been awesome ever since. It’s like a family here and the people are so nice here. They’re always going out of their way to say hey and talk to you. It just feels like my second home. It’s really awesome. And it’s something that I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid, was host a regional here.”

Head Coach Scott Berry said, “He’s a leader on this team. I mean he’s one of our captains. He knows how to win baseball games. He knows how to get those around him to play at the level that they need to, too. So, he’s a fine player and a fine young man.”

USM leads off its run through the Hattiesburg Regional at 1 p.m. Friday against Army West Point.