With the regular season now complete, Georgia Southern secured their place as the nine seed in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament. Their single elimination round contest will take place Tuesday night (May 20th) and 7:30 PM ET against Arkansas State at Riverwalk Stadium in Montgomery, Al.
The Georgia Southern baseball team (27-29, 13-17 SBC) were defeated by Marshall 31-24, 16-14 SBC) on Saturday afternoon (May 17th) by a 9-8 score in ten innings in the final game of the 2025 regular season.
The Herd's offensive flame would still be burning after the last two contests, scoring three runs in each of the first two innings to quickly see Southern look a 6-0 deficit in the eyes after just two innings. However, the Eagles would not stay silent.
Their rally would start in the fourth inning when a JP Herrholz single and Bryson Trammell getting hit by a pitch made for for JuJu Stevens to his his moment. On the first pitch he saw, Stevens crushed on the centerfield that rode the wind like a rollercoaster, soaring 472 feet and clearing the batter's eye. For Stevens, it was the longest home run ever recorded during the track man era for the Eagles. With his one swing, Stevens would cut the deficit in half.
An inning later, Sean White would copy Stevens' homework, launching a 400+ foot homer to centerfield of his own that would score both him and Josh Tate to make it a 6-5 game midway home. In the sixth, Trammell would single to left and advanced to second before Stevens delivered again, mashing a double into the gap that would tie the ball game. A few batters later when Stevens stood on third, Luke Odden would do his job and put the ball in play to take the 7-6 lead.
Once again, Southern scored an inning later with Trammell's RBI-triple into right field to make it 8-6. After the first two innings, Southern were able to hold Marshall off the board for six straight innings, mainly from the combined successes of Carter DeGondea and Garrett Mackowiak.The two would combine for 7.1 innings of fantastic outings, with only allowing two runs (transfered to DeGondea in the ninth), four hits, and two strikeouts. For Mackowiak, he would deliver in a big way with his 3.2 innings of scoreless ball, allowing just a singular hit.
In the ninth, however, a sac-fly, followed by a single with runners on would tie up the game and send it to free baseball.There, Maika Niu singled sharply through the left side with the bases loaded to win it for the Herd. Southern would match Marshall with a dozen hits, with a quartet of Eagles, (Herrholz, Trammell, Stevens, and JD Kaiser) all going for two hits. Eight Eagles would collect a hit on the afternoon, with Stevens nabbing four RBIs.
