happy hundred

While Mississippi State and Ole Miss are engaged at Trustmark Park in Pearl tonight, Southern Miss will be hooked up in a fairly significant game at Alabama. Not only are the Golden Eagles (24-17) and Crimson Tide (28-12) both playing well, but tonight’s game will be the 100th between the two schools. Alabama leads the series 72-27, but they’ve split the last 10 – and USM won 2-1 in a February game in Hattiesburg. USM, building its postseason resume after a sluggish start, has won 12 of its last 17 games. A win at Sewell-Thomas Stadium would be another nice feather in the cap. The Eagles will throw Cameron Giannini (2-2, 4.44 ERA) at the nationally ranked Tide. Leading the USM attack is Matt Durst, who is batting .301 with four home runs and 31 RBIs. Wonder if anyone in Eagles Nation expected this kind of production from Durst, a 5-foot-10, 229-pound catcher who transferred in from Northeast Texas Community College.