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Horne Shuts Down No. 4 South Carolina
5/5/2002 | Baseball
May 5, 2002
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COLUMBIA, S.C. - Freshman right-hander Alan Horne held No. 4 South Carolina to two hits over 7 1/3 innings, and No. 9 Ole Miss hit three home runs in the sixth inning to salvage the final game of this weekend's three-game Southeastern Conference series with a 4-2 victory Sunday afternoon, in front of 4,382 at Sarge-Frye Field.
The loss dropped South Carolina (37-11, 16-7 SEC) a half-game behind Alabama in the overall conference standings, while Ole Miss (35-13, 14-10) remains three games behind the Crimson Tide.
Horne (5-1), a first round draft choice of the Cleveland Indians in last June's Major League Baseball Draft, overcame six walks to hold the Gamecocks to two runs, and struck out six to win his fifth straight decision.
After Trey Dyson hit a lead-off home run in the second to put South Carolina on the board first, the Gamecocks wouldn't record another hit off Horne until Brian Buscher's one-out single in the eighth.
Horne would be lifted for Adam Yates after Buscher's single put runners on first and second. Yates forced Garris Gonce to hit into a fielder's choice at third for the second out of the inning, however, Dyson would single up the middle to score Buscher and cut the Rebels' lead to 4-2 and put runners on the corners. Yates, though, would strike out Justin Harris to end the threat.
T.J. Beam pitched a scoreless ninth inning to earn his sixth save of the year, a day after he was touched for three ninth-inning home runs in the Gamecocks' 6-4 win on Saturday.
South Carolina starter Steven Bondurant limited the Rebels to one through five innings before the Ole Miss bats awoke in the sixth. Matt Mossberg started the inning with a bloop single to center and Chad Sterbens followed with a two-run homer to left to make it 2-1. After Jonathan Swearingen popped out to second, Burney Hutchinson and Josh Christian hit back-to-back home runs to make it 4-1 and chase Bondurant.
Bondurant (5-3) was charged with the loss, allowing four runs on five hits and two walks, and struck out seven in 5 1/3 innings.
Mossberg finished 2-for-3 at the plate to lead Ole Miss, and the home run by Sterbens extended his SEC hitting streak 24 games, and to a career-best 14 games overall.
Dyson was 2-for-4 for South Carolina and drove in both of the Gamecocks' runs.
Ole Miss will return to action Friday evening when the Rebels host Arkansas in the opener of a three-game SEC series at 6:30 p.m., at Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field.
Ole Miss 4, South Carolina 2 (May 05, 2002 at Columbia, SC)----------------------------------------------------------------------Ole Miss............ 000 004 000 - 4 7 2 (35-13, 14-10 SEC)South Carolina...... 010 000 010 - 2 4 0 (37-11, 16-7 SEC)----------------------------------------------------------------------Pitchers: Ole Miss - A. Horne; A. Yates(8); T. Beam(9). South Carolina - Bondurant, S;Taylor, B.(6).Win-A. Horne(5-1) Save-T. Beam(6) Loss-Bondurant, S(5-3) T-2:53 A-4382HR UM - C. Sterbens (4); Hutchinson (8); J. Christian (7).HR SC - Dyson, Trey (14).Game: UM0505
