The University of Mississippi Athletics
Rebels Host Kentucky, Senior Day Set For Sunday
5/7/2010 | Softball
OXFORD, Miss. - The Ole Miss Rebel softball team will welcome the Kentucky Wildcats to Oxford for the final series of the season this weekend at the Ole Miss Softball Complex. The Rebels and the Wildcats will play a double header on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m. and finish the series Sunday at 1 p.m.
Sunday will also be the final home game for the 2010 Rebel seniors - Alise Doubt, Ashley Dowdy, Courtnie Ghinaudo, Lauren Grill, Alyssa McGovern, Becky Nye and Amber Tramp - who will be honored as part of 'Senior Day' activities before the game. Redshirt junior Aly Presswood will also participate in 'Senior Day', as she was a member of the 2007 freshman class before losing her first season to injury.
The first 100 fans through the gate on Saturday will receive complimentary rain ponchos from AT&T. The Rebels will celebrate Mother's Day at Sunday's game, as mothers have the opportunity to win prizes throughout the game with a grand prize drawing in the seventh inning.
The Rebels enter the final SEC weekend with a 26-25 record and a 7-17 mark in SEC games. Grill continues to lead Ole Miss at the plate with a .445 average and 36 runs scored. She has 61 hits on the season which is a career best and one off the Ole Miss single-season record. Her 36 runs scored is also a career best and one off the Rebel season mark. Junior Lindsey Perry paces the Rebels in the circle with a 9-5 record and a 3.08 ERA. Perry picked up a pair of wins last week, including a complete-game three-hitter against Central Arkansas.
Kentucky travels to Oxford with a 29-21 overall record and an 11-14 mark in conference play. The Wildcats stepped out of SEC play last weekend, dropping a pair of games on the road at No. 2 Michigan. Senior Molly Johnson leads UK with a .375 batting average on the year and 10 home runs. In the circle, sophomore Chanda Bell paces the squad with a 16-11 record, a 2.58 ERA and 255 strikeouts in 179.1 innings.
Ole Miss leads the all-time series 25-12 over Kentucky, but dropped two-of-three to the Wildcats in Lexington last year.
