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Mississippi State is Super Regional bound

USM’s quest to return to its first Super Regional since 2009 was scheduled to start at 1 p.m. yesterday. Long story short, Southern Miss saw its season come to a screeching halt early this morning. That was after close to…

NCAA Tournament Regional: Southern Miss vs. Mississippi State

Perks of rolling through the winner’s bracket in the regional round of the NCAA baseball tournament is having two chances to beat the same team once. Today, Southern Miss needed just one win to advance to Super-Regionals whereas Mississippi State…

Hattiesburg Regional: Southern Miss vs. UIC

Fourteen years ago, the people of Hattiesburg got their first taste of a regional and they’ve been craving that second bite ever since. Today, the NCAA tournament finally made its first trip back to Pete Taylor Park and the Southern…

USM beats Illinois Chicago

It was an exciting game in Hattiesburg today for the first game of the NCAA Regionals. Host Southern Miss faced off against Illinois Chicago in the double elimination tournament. Number one seed USM fell in a hole early, but were…

USM wins first game of NCAA Regionals

This is the first regional game Southern Miss has hosted in the NCAA Tournament since 2003. The USM faithful responded by showing out in full force. News 25’s Jeff Haeger joins us from Pete Taylor Park with one of those…

Hattiesburg Regional Preview: Mississippi State

A big part of the hype surrounding the Hattiesburg Regional has everything to do with a potential second day matchup between USM and Mississippi State. But first, the Bulldogs have to take down South Alabama in their first game on…

Hattiesburg Regional Preview

Perhaps the most important weekend in the history of Pete Taylor Park is less than 24 hours away. Southern Miss is hosting a regional for the first time since 2003 with a trip to Super Regionals on the line. The…

Trey Shaffer wins Gatorade Player of the Year

One of the biggest individual accolades a high school athlete can receive is Mississippi’s Gatorade Player of the Year. For baseball, this year’s recipient hails from right here on the Gulf Coast. Yesterday, the award went to former Biloxi Indian…

Shuckers Kids Clinic set for Thursday

The Biloxi Shuckers postponed the first Shuckers Kids Clinic at MGM Park due to the possibility of rain. The clinic scheduled for this morning has been postponed until tomorrow. If you have a conflict with Thursday’s date, those registered can…

Barry Lyons, Shuckers kids clinic at MGM Park

The Biloxi Shuckers are hosting the first Shuckers Kids Clinic Wednesday and Thursday morning at MGM Park. The kids clinic aims to help youth baseball players along the Mississippi Gulf Coast improve their baseball skills while receiving hands on instruction…

Southern Miss Regional Preview

For better or worse, three of the teams in the Hattiesburg regional are all pretty familiar with one another, but there’s still one other school that has everyone guessing. USM’s first opponent is the University of Illinois-Chicago, whose mascot is…

Southern Miss Watch Party: NCAA regionals announced Monday

After being overlooked as a regional host last year, the Southern Miss baseball team didn’t leave anything to chance in 2017. The Golden Eagles ripped off 14 consecutive wins to close out the regular season and followed that up with…

Conference USA Tournament in review

Despite falling short of their second straight C-USA Tournament Championship, the Golden Eagles showed a lot of heart to make it back to the title game after being stunned by UTSA on day one. They got things rolling with a…

Mississippi State Regional Reaction

Had the end of the regular season gone differently for the Mississippi State baseball team perhaps the Bulldogs would be hosting a regional of their own, but instead it’s off to Hattiesburg. Including the SEC Tournament, the Diamond Dawgs lost…

C-USA Tournament Championship Game: Southern Miss vs. Rice

The Conference USA Baseball Tournament concluded at MGM Park in Biloxi Sunday with a rematch between Southern Miss and Rice. Last year, the Golden Eagles beat the Owls in dramatic fashion to punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament. This…

Catching up with former Red Rebel Michael Gilbert

In terms of former high school baseball players hailing from the Gulf Coast, Michael Gilbert is about as local as it gets. The Harrison Central alum went on to play at Mississippi Gulf Coast before spending the rest of his…

Conference USA Baseball Tournament Day Three

The Conference USA Tournament is back for day three and the number of teams remaining is starting to dwindle. By the time Southern Miss takes the diamond at MGM Park, there will only be five schools remaining. News 25’s Jeff…

Conference USA Tournament: Southern Miss vs. La Tech

From here on out, every Conference USA Tournament game is win or go home for Southern Miss. Today, the Golden Eagles needed to eliminate Louisiana Tech to avoid that same fate on their second day in Biloxi. A big sigh…