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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Diamond Rebs To Host Tennessee In Weekend Series
4/2/2010 | Baseball
#11 Ole Miss (20-6, 4-2 SEC) vs. Tennessee (13-13, 0-6 SEC)
Oxford, Miss. • O-U Stadium/Swayze Field
April 2-4 • 6:30 p.m./4 p.m./1:30 p.m.
Radio: Full Ole Miss Baseball Radio Network
Announcers: David Kellum & Gary Darby
Television: SportSouth (Sunday)
Announcers: Bob Kesling and Rusty Ensor
Live Video: RebelVision HD Gamecenter (Friday & Saturday)
Live Audio: RebelVision
Live Stats: OleMissSports.com
OLE MISS LAUNCHES FIRST COLLEGIATE HD GAMECENTER
NeuLion, Inc. and Ole Miss Athletics has announced the debut of a brand new high definition live game service for the 2010 baseball season. As part of Ole Miss' subscription video service, RebelVision, the Ole Miss HD Baseball GameCenter gives Ole Miss fans the ability to watch live baseball games online. The video stream features a SEC-best display, capable of achieving brilliant HD at 720p resolution. OleMissSports.com represents the first official athletics site from NeuLion's nearly 200 collegiate partner sites to offer live HD streaming. Fans can get the remaining non-televised home baseball games in HD, including the first two games of this weekend's series against Tennessee, for $28.95 or as a free upgrade to existing annual audio/video subscribers. Click here to subscribe.
PROBABLE PITCHING MATCH-UPS:
FRIDAY, 6:30 P.M.
UT - Bryan Morgado, Jr., LHP
OM - Drew Pomeranz, Jr., LHP
NOTING POMERANZ: Pomeranz enters the weekend with a 4-0 record on the year and is coming into the game off a season-long 7.1 innings of work against #2 Florida. The southpaw leads the Southeastern Conference in strikeouts with 58 and holds a league-leading ERA of 1.23 while he is holding opponents to an SEC-best .172 batting average against. Pomeranz currently sits at fourth on the career-strikeout list at Ole Miss with 263 and needs 19 more to move past Mark Holliman into third place.
SATURDAY, 4 P.M.
UT - Stephen McCray, Sr., RHP
OM - Aaron Barrett, Sr., RHP
NOTING BARRETT: Barrett comes into the weekend with a perfect 6-0 record on the year and leads the Southeastern Conference in victories. The right-hander has fanned 46 batters on the season, second-most in SEC play behind teammate Drew Pomeranz. Barrett is holding opponents to a .200 batting average against and has allowed 10 runs - nine earned - in his team-leading 38.0 innings of work. Against #2 Florida last weekend, he struck out nine and allowed only two runs in 6.0 innings of work.
SUNDAY, 1:30 P.M. (SPORTSOUTH)
UT - Steven Gruver, Soph., LHP
OM - TBA
REBELS IN THE RANKINGS:
For the sixth straight season Ole Miss opened the year ranked in the preseason polls. Currently, the Rebels are ranked as high as 11th (Collegiate Baseball/Baseball America) and appear in the rankings of all of five of the major college baseball polls.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME:
The home field has been kind to the Rebels during Bianco's tenure as Ole Miss has posted a 249-89-1 record within the friendly confines of O-U Stadium/Swayze Field for a (.736 winning percentage) at home.
A LOOK AT TENNESSEE:
The Volunteers of Tennessee enter the weekend with a 13-13 record overall and are coming off mid-week wins over Tennessee Tech and Presbyterian College. The Vols were swept last weekend by LSU at home in conference play. As a team, Tennessee is batting .280 with 31 home runs and 172 RBI. P.J. Polk is the top hitter on the team, batting at a .354 clip with four home runs and 19 RBI on the year. On the mound, the Volunteers hold a team ERA of 4.85 and are led by Stephen McCray with a 1.98 ERA. Friday night starter Bryan Morgado is the ace of the staff, however, with a 4.42 ERA to go along with 42 strikeouts and 19 walks on the season. As a staff, UT has struck out 194 batters and walked 106 to date. Teams are batting .247 against the Vols.
REBELS VS. TENNESSEE:
Ole Miss leads the overall series with Tennessee 35-31-1 and picked up a win over Tennessee in the last meeting in the 2007 SEC Tournament. That season, the Rebels went 2-2 against the Volunteers. In his time at Ole Miss, head coach Mike Bianco has compiled a 14-9 record against the Volunteers with series sweeps at home in 2004 and 2006.
HIT STREAKS ON THE LINE:
Ole Miss has several players boasting hit streaks currently, but none longer than junior Matt Smith. Smith currently holds a season-long 10 game hitting streak. Also holding hit streaks are Tim Ferguson (5), Kevin Mort (3), Tanner Mathis (2), David Phillips (2) and Matt Tracy (2).
NEXT WEEK FOR THE REBELS:
Ole Miss will play a single mid-week game next week when the Rebels host Arkansas-Little Rock on Wednesday night at 6:30 p.m. at Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field. Ole Miss will then go back on the road for the fourth week of Southeastern Conference play, traveling to Athens to take on the Georgia Bulldogs in a three-game series over the weekend.
