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LSU Walks Past Ole Miss 15-2
4/13/2001 | Baseball
April 13, 2001
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BATON ROUGE, La. - No. 2 LSU scored six runs on just two hits while sending 10 batters to the plate during the fifth inning to break a 1-1 tie and defeat No. 18 Ole Miss, 15-2, Friday night at Alex Box Stadium, in the first of a three-game Southeastern Conference series between the two conference leaders.
With the win, the Tigers (26-10-1) move a game ahead of the Rebels (26-11-1) for the lead in the SEC Western Division and for first place overall in the conference standings at 11-5. Ole Miss dropped into a second-place tie with Alabama in the SEC West at 10-6.
After holding LSU to a run on three hits through the first four innings, Ole Miss starter Pete Montrenes suffered control problems in the fifth. After a lead-off single by David Raymer and a fielder's choice ground out by Ryan Theriot, Montrenes walked five straight batters, pushing three runs across to give LSU a 4-1 lead.
Ronnie Goodwin came on in relief with the bases loaded and coaxed Zeph Zinsman to ground to first, however, Josh Christian's throw to second on a force play sailed high off the glove of shortstop Chad Sterbens and into left center. Two runs would come in to score on the play to extend the Tigers' lead to 6-1. Ray Wright capped the inning with a RBI single to right center.
After Lance Jones homered in the top of the sixth to cut the lead to 7-2, LSU tacked on three more runs in the bottom of the inning to ice the game and push its lead to 10-2.
Montrenes (7-3) allowed seven runs, six earned, on four hits and a career-high seven walks in 4 1/3 innings of work in suffering the loss. He also struck out six in what was his shortest outing of the season.
LSU starter Jason Scobie (2-1) worked eight innings, allowing two runs, one earned, on six hits and one walk, while striking out five to earn the win.
Jones finished the night 3-for-3 with two RBI to collect nearly half of the Rebels' seven hits. The home run was the fifth of the year for the senior third baseman.
Second baseman Mike Fontenot went 3-for-4 to lead LSU at the plate, and Todd Linden was 1-for-2 with a home run and three RBI. Sean Barker capped the scoring for the evening with a three-run, pinch-hit home run off Nathan Lyons in the eighth to make it 15-2. The homer was Barker's second of the year.
Ten different Tigers recorded at least one hit as LSU recorded 13 hits on the night.
This weekend's series marks first-year Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco's first visit to Baton Rouge, La., as the Rebels' head coach. A former player and assistant coach at LSU under Tiger head coach Skip Bertman, Bianco spent the three previous seasons as the head coach of McNeese State prior to coming to Ole Miss.
Before tonight's game, Bianco and his wife, Camille, honored Bertman, who is retiring as the Tigers' head coach at the end of the season, and his wife Sandy, during a ceremony at home plate. Bianco presented Bertman with a plaque from The University of Mississippi, a copy of the book "Manning," autographed by former Ole Miss All-America quarterback and All-SEC shortstop Archie Manning, an autographed copy of John Grisham's latest book "A Painted House", a baseball given by former Ole Miss baseball All-American and head coach Jake Gibbs that was autographed by several former New York Yankee greats at a Yankee reunion, and a autographed picture of former Rebel All-America and Chicago Cub Don Kessinger throwing out the first pitch at a game at Wrigley Field when he was inducted into the Cubs' Hall of Fame.
LSU 15, Ole Miss 2 (Apr 13, 2001 at Baton Rouge, La.)----------------------------------------------------------------------Ole Miss...........001 001 000 - 2 7 2 (26-11-1, 10-6 SEC)LSU................000 163 23X - 15 13 1 (26-10-1, 11-5 SEC)----------------------------------------------------------------------Pitchers: Ole Miss - P. Montrenes, R. Goodwin(5), N. Bradshaw(6), N. Lyons(7), J. Dickens(8).LSU - Scobie, Youman(9).Win-Scobie(2-1) Loss-P. Montrenes(7-3) T-3:21 A-8413HR UM - L. Jones (5).HR LS - Linden (9), Barker (2).R. Goodwin faced 2 batters in the 6th.N. Lyons faced 4 batters in the 8th.
