The University of Mississippi Athletics
Ole Miss
South Carolina
Rebels Take Down No. 4 South Carolina 8-5
4/20/2007 | Baseball
Ole Miss pounded out 11 hits, including a home run from Evan Button, and took advantage of three
Zack Cozart extended his hit streak to 12 games with a single in the first inning. It’s a career-long for the junior shortstop.
Will Kline (5-1) picked up the win as he worked 7.0 innings, allowing five runs on five hits with two walks and eight strikeouts. Cody Satterwhite picked up his second save of the season as he closed out the game for the Rebels, allowing no hits in 2.0 innings of scoreless work. He walked two and struck out two on the night.
Harris Honeycutt (7-2) suffered the loss, only the second of his career, as he allowed six runs, two earned, on seven hits with two walks and five strikeouts.
“I thought we played really well tonight against a very good club,” said Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco. “Will Kline didn’t have his best stuff tonight, but he battled out there. It was big to come back and answer
Ole Miss got on the board in the first with an RBI single to center from Overbeck that scored Cozart from second. Cozart singled then stole second to get into scoring position.
Button hit his second career home run in the second inning to push Ole Miss out to a 2-0 lead.
Overbeck came up with an RBI single through the left side in the third inning to drive Justin Henry in from third and put the Rebels up 3-0. Henry walked before stealing second. He moved the third on the play as the throw to the bag was high and went into center field.
Ole Miss answered in the bottom half of the inning with three runs to take a 6-3 lead. Brett Basham sparked the two-out rally with a single to left field before back-to-back singles from the Henry brothers pushed Basham across the plate and left runners at second and third for Cozart. Cozart reached on a fielding error at third that allowed both Henry brothers to score before he was thrown out at second to end the inning.
The Gamecocks mounted another rally in the sixth when Smoak came up with a bloop single to shallow left center with runners at the corners. The hit pushed Lail across from third and put runners at first and second with the lead cut to 6-4 in favor of Ole Miss. A walk of Gamecock catcher Trent Kline loaded the bases with one out.
Jordan Henry tripled to open the seventh inning before scoring on an RBI single to short from Overbeck to put Ole Miss back out by three at 7-4.
Travis Jones opened the eighth with a double to the wall before the Rebels turned to the bullpen and brought in Satterwhite. A wild pitch moved Jones to third before a groundout to short from Darnell got an out on the board, but pushed Jones across to cut the lead to 7-5. Satterwhite then recorded a strikeout and a groundout to end the inning.
Satterwhite then closed out the ninth for the Rebels, preserving the win as he picked up the save.
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