The University of Mississippi Athletics
Ole Miss Baseball Game Notes
3/25/2000 | Baseball
Game #24, Home Game #16 vs. Vanderbilt
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2000
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Stadium: Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field
Site: Oxford, Miss.
TONIGHT'S PITCHING MATCH-UP
Chris Maultsby (So., RHP, 0-1, 5.54 ERA) vs. Brett Young (Fr., RHP, 0-0, 6.18)
UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHING MATCH-UPS VS. VANDERBILT
Tomorrow: Damon Yee (Sr., RHP, 3-2, 2.54) vs. TBA
REBELS VS. MAULTSBY: Cox .000 (0-1, BB), Huisman .000 (0-1, BB), Voltz .667 (2-3, 2 HR)
REBELS VS. VANDERBILT: Tonight's meeting is 77th all-time between Ole Miss and Vanderbilt ... the Rebels lead the all-time series 38-36-2 ... With last night's win, Ole Miss has now won five of the last seven meetings ... Ole Miss is 20-11 against Vanderbilt in Oxford, but is just 6-7 against the Commodores in Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field.
SCOUTING VANDERBILT: Vanderbilt is 10-13 having dropped its last four games and eight of its last 10 ... the Commodores are hitting .277 (218-788) as a team with 19 HRs, and have outscored their opponents 147-145 ... sophomore OF Karl Nonemaker leads the Commodores in batting average (.333), HRs (4) and RBI (22) ... Vanderbilt pitchers have a team ERA of 4.86 (200.0 IP, 108 ER), and opponents are hitting .258 against them (200-775) with 16 HRs.
AFTER 23 GAMES LAST YEAR: Ole Miss was 12-11 through 23 games in 1999 ... the Rebels were hitting .312 (257-824) with 32 HRs, 56 doubles, 11 triples and 154 RBI ... they had outscored the opposition 169-139 ... Ole Miss had stole 18 bases in 30 attempts and grounded into 13 double plays ... Rebel pitchers had a 5.45 ERA (198.0 IP, 120 ER), allowing 194 hits, including 18 HRs, walked 106 and had struck out 162 ... Ole Miss had a .962 fielding percentage with 33 errors.
VOLTZ FINALIST FOR SEC ACADEMIC AWARD: Senior 1B Jude Voltz has been named a finalist for the 1999-2000 H. Boyd McWhorter SEC Scholar-Athlete Award. As a finalist, Voltz will receive a $5,000 scholarship for post-graduate studies. Each SEC school nominated one male and one female for the award, and a selection committe will name an outstanding male and female scholar-athlete, who will in turn receive a $10,000 post-graduate scholarship, provided by the Alltel Corporation.
HARRISON EARNS 100TH WIN AT OLE MISS: Last night's 4-0 win over Vanderbilt handed fourth-year head coach Pat Harrison is 100th career victory with the Rebels. Harrison is 100-91 (.524) at Ole Miss and has a career record of 234-208-2 (.529) in eight-plus seasons as a head coach.
INJURY REPORT: Sophomore LHP Nathan Lyons will miss his second straight start tonight as he is not listed on Ole Miss' 25-man dress out roster. Lyons missed his last start against Tennessee due to a sore left arm.
REBEL BULLET POINTS:
Last night's 4-0 win snapped the Rebels' longest losing skid of the year at three games.
Dating back to last season, Ole Miss is 15-7 (.682) against the SEC Eastern Division, and is 20-8 (.714) dating back to the third game of the 1998 Florida series (4/12/98).
The Rebels have scored five or less runs in five of their last six games, and in four straight.
Last night's complete-game shutout by Jeff McAvoy was the Rebel pitching staff's eighth quality start of the year (at least 6 IP, 4 ER or less). Last year through 23 games, Ole Miss pitchers had recorded six quality starts.
McAvoy's complete game was also the first by a Rebel pitcher this season.
Opponents are hitting .225 (109-484) at Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field this year with three HRs. The Rebels are hitting .307 (157-512) at home with nine HRs in 15 games.
TONIGHT'S STARTING PITCHER
#33 Brett Young, Fr., RHP
(Westminster, Calif./Calvary Chapel H.S.)
Is making his second career start.
Is 0-0 with a 6.18 ERA (27.2 IP, 19 ER).
Leads team in appearances with nine, including a team-high eight relief outings.
Has walked just seven of 125 batters he's faced.
Worked three innings of relief in his first career appearance against Nicholls State (2/12), striking out four.
Tied a season-high with four strikeouts against Abilene Christian (2/17) in three innings.
Drew first career start at Southern Miss (2/29), working a career-long five innings, receiving no decision.
Registered first career save vs. SEMO (3/4).
Pitched five innings of relief against Tennessee (3/18) and struck out four to tie his career-highs for innings pitched and strikeouts.
LAST START: Worked five innings against Southern Miss (2/29) in his first career start, allowing three runs, two earned, on eight hits and one walk, and striking out three ... allowed a batter to reach base in all five innings ... USM got an unearned run in the second when Darren Welch reached on an error to start the inning and later came around to score on DeQuincy Scott's RBI single ... the Golden Eagles scored another run in the fourth on Chris Fishburn's single that scored Chris Finnegan ... Ben Mosely hit a one-out solo home run in the fifth ... relieved by Casey Fuller to start the sixth.
YOUNG VS. SEC OPPONENTS: Is 0-0 with an 11.74 ERA (7.2 IP, 10 ER) in two relief appearances.
YOUNG VS. THE SEC EAST: Is 0-0 with an 11.74 ERA (7.2 IP, 10 ER) in two relief appearances.
YOUNG MISCELLANEOUS STATS:
Opponents are hitting .312 (35-112) against them.
Is 0-0 with a 3.94 ERA (16.0 IP, 7 ER) and one save in six relief appearances at home.
Has no decisions and a 9.26 ERA (11.2 IP, 12 ER) on the road in three appearances, including one start.
Is 0-0 with a 1.29 ERA (7.0 IP, 1 ER) with one save in three appearances during the day.
Is 0-0 with a 7.84 ERA (20.2 IP, 18 ER) in six appearances at night, including one start.
Is 0-0 with a 8.53 ERA (12.2 IP, 12 ER) and one save in five appearances during the month of March.
