Hilltopper Baseball avoided a four-game series sweep against Southern Miss over the weekend after a five run victory on Sunday.

To start the series off on Friday WKU lost 6-5 after the Golden Eagles spurred a late comeback. Saturday's double-header saw Southern Miss take both seven-inning games 6-5 in the first and 3-0 in the second.

In the series finale on Sunday WKU put together a big offensive day to avoid a sweep and take game four 9-4.

On Friday the Hilltoppers held a 5-4 lead in the eighth inning after homers in the sixth and eighth. Ultimately, the Golden Eagles would retaliate in their half of the eighth, shutting down WKU in the ninth to get the slim series-opening victory.

Saturday's double-header began with the first contest having the same score as Friday's game, but in this one WKU would out-hit the Golden Eagles including multi-hit efforts by four players in a close loss. Game two of the double-header saw the Hilltoppers get shutout after picking up just three hits in seven innings.

The series finale on Sunday is where the WKU bats came alive. Justin Carlin went three for four with three RBI and Kevin Lambert went three for five with an RBI in a five-run victory by the Hilltoppers to close things out in Hattiesburg.

After the series loss, WKU is 19-21 and 9-11 in conference play. They are fourth in the Conference USA East division, one game behind FAU and two games ahead of FIU.

This weekend the Hilltoppers will head to Huntington, West Virginia to take on Marshall in a four-game series. Friday the series will kick off with first pitch set for 2:00 PM CT.

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– Casey Warner is a Baseball and Staff writer for InsideHilltopperSports.com. Follow him on Twitter at @thecaseywarner. –