The University of Mississippi Athletics
Rebels Stays Alive With 12-3 Win Over Monmouth
6/21/1999 | Baseball
May 29, 1999
COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Ole Miss built a 10-0 lead after three innings to cruise to a 12-3 win over Monmouth (NJ) University in a elimination game in the NCAA College Station Baseball Regional Saturday morning.
The Rebels (34-27) will now face the loser of this afternoon's Long Beach State-Texas A&M game tonight at 7:00 p.m. in another elimination game.
Chad Hill and Brad Henderson each homered and drove in four runs for Ole Miss. Henderson also collected three hits to lead the Rebels' 17-hit attack as 11 different Ole Miss players recorded at least one hit in the contest.
Rebel starter Dan McShea, 7-3, pitched three scoreless innings before being lifted after Ole Miss built a comfortable early lead. McShea allowed three hits and one walk while striking out two and was designated the pitcher of record.
Jon Dickens came in and pitched 2 2/3 innings of relief, allowing three runs on one hit and six walks, and freshman Glen Morris finished the game by throwing 3 1/3 scoreless innings, allowing two hits and one walk.
Monmouth (26-24), champions of the Northeast Conference and the No. 4 seed at the College Station Regional, used five different pitchers. Starter Dan Severino, 3-3, suffered the loss, lasting just 1 1/3 innings and was tagged for six runs on six hits and three walks.
Ole Miss scored one run in the first inning as Chad Hill drew a lead-off walk and later came around to score on a wild pitch.
The Rebels then added five runs in the second, highlighted by Hill's three-run home run. Ole Miss scored four more runs in the third to build its 10-0 lead. Hill had a sacrifice fly to score Justin Huisman in the third. Brad Henderson followed two batters later with a two-run double to score J.T. Harrison and Burney Hutchinson, and then scored when Banks Robinson followed witha RBI double.
Henderson hit a two-run home run in the fifth to make it 12-0 before the Hawks finally broke through in the sixth.
Jason Law hit a one-out solo shot in the sixth to put Monmouth on the board and the Hawks added two more runs in the inning on Jeff Toth's two-out, two-run pinch-hit single.
Ole Miss turned its first triple play since 1995 and its second in school's modern era in the fifth inning. Center fielder Kris Cox made a diving catch of a Bobby Torres' shot to right center. He then threw the ball into second to double off David Santana, and shortstop Justin Huisman's throw to first caught Ian Magley off the bag for the third out.
OLE MISS 154 020 000 - 12 17 0MONMOUTH 000 030 000 - 3 6 1W- McShea (7-3) L- Severino (3-3)HR- Hill (2), Henderson (9), Law (8)T- 2:45 ATT- 4,476
OLE MISS POST-GAME NOTES
GAME #61, NCAA COLLEGE STATION REGIONAL
GAME #2 VS. MONMOUTH
MAY 29, 1999; 10 A.M.
- Ole Miss is now 12-7 all-time in elimination games in either a NCAA Regional or College World Series.
- The Rebels have never been eliminated in two games at a NCAA Regional.
- Today's meeting with Monmouth was the first-ever between the two schools, and the first meeting for Ole Miss against a team from the Northeast Conference (NEC).
- Senior 2B Brad Henderson recorded his 95th hit of the year with a second-inning single to establish a new Ole Miss single-season record for hits, breaking current Arizona Diamondback and former All-America David Dellucci's 1995 record of 94. Dellucci set his mark in 62 games. This was Henderson's 61st game of the season. Henderson was 3-for-4 on the afternoon to put him at 97 hits for the season.
- Junior OF Chad Hill's second-inning three-run home run was his first in his 71 at-bats. He hit his only other homer of the season at LSU on March 27. Hill's four RBI set a new career-high.
- Starter Dan McShea tossed three scoreless innings to extend his scoreless-inning streak to 12.
