MIAMI (May 23, 2016) – The FIU baseball team continued its hot play with a three-game sweep of the No. 13-ranked Southern Miss Golden Eagles this past weekend. The three-game series sweep extends FIU's winning streak to six games as the defending Conference USA Champions travel to Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to defend their crown.
Heading into this year's C-USA Baseball Championships, FIU is hitting .300 with six home runs and 41 RBI during its current winning streak. Four of those six home runs came in the series finale (13-8 FIU victory) with the Golden Eagles as FIU became the only team to sweep USM in a three-game series this season. The four home runs on Saturday were a season-high at home for the Panthers. Led by junior
Nick Day, who belted two of the four long balls in the game, FIU used the fourth and fifth innings to score 10 runs and take control of the third and final game of the series as the Panthers' registered their second-straight series sweep.
FIU now turns its attention to Marshall as the Panthers take on the Thundering Herd in the opening round of the 2016 C-USA Baseball Championships on Wednesday, May. 25. First pitch is set for 8:30 p.m. ET.
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About FIU Athletics: FIU Athletics is home to more than 400 student-athletes in 18 different sports. Athletic events are played in seven different venues on FIU's campuses (Modesto A. Maidique and Biscayne Bay), including FIU Arena and Ocean Bank Field at FIU Stadium.
About FIU:
Florida International University is recognized as a Carnegie engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offer more than 180 bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes $8.9 billion each year to the local economy. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission. FIU has awarded over 200,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two campuses and three centers including FIU Downtown on Brickell, FIU@I-75, and the Miami Beach Urban Studios. FIU also supports artistic and cultural engagement through its three museums: the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Wolfsonian-FIU, and the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU. FIU is a member of Conference USA and has over 400 student-athletes participating in 18 sports. For more information about FIU, visit http://www.fiu.edu/.
