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Schedule set for Sunday's Tennessee-Southern Miss Super Regional Games

IMG_3593by:Grant Ramey•06/10/23•

GrantRamey

Tennessee Baseball
Camden Sewell (Tennessee Athletics)

The second game in the Hattiesburg Super Regional between Tennessee and Southern Mississippi will start on Sunday at 3 p.m. Eastern Time or 55 minutes after the completion of the suspended Game 1 on ESPN. The opener of the three-game series was suspended Saturday in the bottom of the fifth inning due to rain and lightning in the area.

The winner of the three-game series at Pete Taylor Park in Hattiesburg will advance to the College World Series in Omaha.

Southern Miss got out to a 4-0 lead after four innings in Game 1. Tate Parker tried to deep center field to score Dustin Dickerson and Christopher Sargent in a two-run first inning as the Golden Eagles jumped out to an early lead against Tennessee and starting pitcher Andrew Lindsey.

Dickerson followed with a solo home run in the third and Nick Monistere hit a solo shot in the fourth to make it 4-0. The game was twice delayed by weather with lightning in the area, both times with Tennessee batting and Vols on base.

How to watch, stream and listen

Game 1 Time: Noon ET, Sunday

Game 2 Time: 3 p.m. ET or 55 minutes after Game 1

Location: Pete Taylor Park (4,300)

TV: ESPNU (Game 1), ESPN (Game 2)

Streaming: WatchESPN

Radio: WNML-FM 99.1 in Knoxville. The Vol Network radio broadcast can be heard on local affiliates across the state of Tennessee.

How They Got Here

Tennessee (41-19) advanced out of the Clemson Regional. Southern Miss (45-18) lost its first game in the Auburn Regional, then won four straight elimination games to advance.

Tennessee, playing in the Super Regional round for the fifth time in program history and for the third time as many years, beat Charlotte 9-2 on Sunday to win the Clemson Regional. The Vols beat Clemson 6-5 Saturday night in 14 innings, after beating Charlotte 8-1 on Friday to advance in the winners bracket. Clemson was the No. 4 overall seed in the 64-team NCAA Tournament bracket.

Southern Miss beat Penn, the No. 4 seed in the Auburn Regional, 11-7 on Monday afternoon after trailing 5-1 early in the regional championship game. The Golden Eagles beat Penn 11-2 late Sunday night. They beat Samford 9-4 on Sunday and took down Auburn 7-2 on Saturday. 

A Closer Look at Southern Miss

Southern Miss also had to win back-to-back elimination games to win the Sun Belt Tournament championship. After losing to Appalachian State, the No. 6 seed in the tournament, USM won in a rematch with the Mountaineers and then beat Louisiana in the title game.

Before beating Auburn in the Auburn Regional on Saturday, Southern Miss went 0-3 against SEC teams during the regular season, losing 13-0 at Alabama, 11-5 at Ole Miss and 10-9 at Mississippi State.

Tennessee is No. 12 in the updated RPI standings while Southern Miss is No. 17. 

The other seven Super Regional hosts are No. 1 Wake Forest (vs. No. 16 Alabama), No. 2 Florida (vs. No. 15 South Carolina), No. 5 LSU (vs. No. 12 Kentucky), No. 7 Virginia (vs. Duke), No. 8 Stanford (vs. Texas), TCU (vs. No. 14 Indiana State) and Oregon (vs. Oral Roberts).

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