2017 Baseball Championship: Semifinal Highlights South Alabama vs Arkansas State

South Alabama got hits from all nine batters in its lineup and made an early 2-0 lead stand up in taking a 4-2 win over Arkansas State here Saturday in the first semifinal game of the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Championship. The third-seeded Jaguars (38-19) move into Sunday’s 1 p.m. ET title game against the winner of Saturday’s second semifinal matching fifth-seeded and tournament host Georgia Southern and eighth-seeded Texas State. USA got a solid starting pitching performance from junior right-hander Tyler Carr (7-1), who scattered five hits and gave up a lone run while fanning five in six innings. Reliever Avery Geyer gave up a leadoff walk to Grant Hawkins to lead off the seventh and Garrett Rucker followed with a double off the left-field wall that scored Hawkins, but closer Matt Peacock came on to retire nine of the 10 Red Wolves he faced in getting his 10th save of the year.