The University of Mississippi Athletics
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No. 9 Baseball Welcomes LSU to Swayze Field
4/22/2021 | Baseball
Rebels Eye Third Consecutive Series Victory Over Tigers
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#9 OLE MISS (27-10, 9-6 SEC) vs. LSU (22-14, 4-11 SEC) Apr. 22-24 Oxford, Miss. Oxford-University Stadium/Swayze Field (11,477) |
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| Ole Miss Notes • SEC Notes • LSU Notes | ||||||||
| Thursday, Apr. 22 7 p.m. CT  |
Friday, Apr. 23 6:30 p.m. CT  |
Saturday, Apr. 24 Noon CT |
| PROJECTED STARTERS Ole Miss: RHP Gunnar Hoglund 3-2, 2.73 ERA, 87 K, 16 BB LSU: RHP Landon Marceaux 4-3, 1.65 ERA, 67 K, 12 BB |
PROJECTED STARTERS Ole Miss: LHP Doug Nikhazy 4-1, 1.86 ERA, 59 K, 16 BB LSU: RHP AJ Labas 2-0, 3.35 ERA, 50 K, 9 BB |
PROJECTED STARTERS Ole Miss: RHP Drew McDaniel 4-0, 2.97 ERA, 42 K, 12 BB LSU: TBA |
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SERIES INFO
Dates: Apr. 22-24
First Pitch: 7 p.m. CT | 6:30 p.m. CT | Noon CT
Location: Oxford, Miss.
Venue: Dudy Noble Field
Dimensions: LF-330, CF-390, RF-330 (11,477)
TV/Live Stream: ESPNU (Thu.) | SEC Network+ (Fri./Sat.)
Play by Play: Tom Hart (Thu.)
Analyst: David Dellucci (Thu.)
Play by Play: Richard Cross (Fri./Sat.)
Analyst: Matt McLaughlin (Fri./Sat.)
Radio: Ole Miss Radio Network/TuneIn App
Play by Play: David Kellum
Analyst: Brad Henderson
Series History: LSU leads 181-160-5
Last Meeting: May 3-5, 2019 (in Baton Rouge)
Results: L, 3-8 | W, 5-1 | W, 19-15 (10)
Last in Oxford: Apr. 26-28, 2018
Results: W, 14-3 | L, 2-5 | W, 9-8
• Ole Miss enters the weekend at 27-10 after notching an 11-6 bounce-back win over Little Rock on Tuesday. Doug Nikhazy's one-hit shutout on Saturday in a dominant 9-0 win highlighted the Rebels' road trip to Starkville last weekend, but No. 3 MSU's clutch hits late on Friday and Sunday sealed the series.
• Ole Miss slipped to a high ranking of No. 9 in the NCBWA and Collegiate Baseball rankings.
• At the halfway point of the SEC season, the Rebels are in third place in the West at 9-6 in league play.
• Doug Nikhazy was named a National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball and the SEC Pitcher of the Week by the league office after his one-hitter in Game 2 in Starkville
• Ole Miss leads the SEC and ranks second nationally with 377 hits on the season, including 17 on Saturday at Dudy Noble Field. The Rebels have tallied 13-plus hits in six of their last eight games.
• The Rebel offense is second in the SEC and fourth nationally in runs scored with 290.
• The Rebel pitching staff is fourth nationally and third in the SEC in strikeouts per nine innings at 12.0.
• Gunnar Hoglund is No. 2 in the nation and second in the SEC with 87 strikeouts on the season.
• Before first pitch Thursday night, Ole Miss will retire the jersey number of Rebel legend Don Kessinger. No. 11, the number he wore while earning multiple Gold Glove and All-Star
honors for the Chicago Cubs, will be unveiled on the right field wall, opposite the only other number retiree, Jake Gibbs.
• Ole Miss and LSU have met 342 times with the Tigers holding a 181-160-1 advantage in the all-time series. The Rebels have won the last two series, as well as the last two series in Oxford.
REBS VS. TIGERS
Ole Miss and LSU have met 342 times between 1906 and 2019 wiith the Tigers holding a 181-160-1 advantage. The Rebels won the most recent series in 2019 in Baton Rouge, their first series victory in Baton Rouge since 1982. LSU won the first two meetings in the all-time series, victories of 4-2 and 6-1 in Baton Rouge in 1906. When the Tigers last came to Oxford, Ole Miss used a dramatic late home run from Thomas Dillard to win the series finale and the series. LSU last won a series in Oxford in 2014.
SATURDAY SHUTOUT
Doug Nikhazy threw a one-hit, complete-game shutout against No. 3 Mississippi State on Saturday in front of a raucous crowd of 13,338 at Dudy Noble Field. The Rebel left-hander tied a career-high with 12 strikeouts and walked just two. He didn't allow a Bulldog to advance past first base, while the Rebel racked up 17 hits in a 9-0 victory. While the offense clicked on Saturday, Ole Miss couldn't get the key hits needed to take the SEC road series. In front of the second-largest weekend crowd in MSU history, the Bulldogs scored three runs in the final four innings of a 5-2 Friday night win and used a five-run sixth inning to close the weekend with a 7-5 victory.
WILD SERIES VS. HOGS
Ole Miss racked up 30 runs over three games against No. 1 Arkansas, but as potent as the Rebels were, the Razorbacks were a razor's edge better as they took the series win with Friday and Sunday victories at Swayze behind 31 runs scored of their own. Ole Miss outhit Arkansas in all three games for a grand total of 46-33 over the weekend.
ONE-RUN MAGIC
Ole Miss is 7-2 on the season in one-run games. Ole Miss has won nine straight 1-0 games. The last time Mike Bianco's squad lost a 1-0 contest was Feb. 24, 2007, against Wright State, a game that was shortened to five innings due to weather. Ole Miss also has 10 come-from-behind wins.
REBEL RECOGNITION
Ole Miss has had eight players earn in-season honors, including two National Players of the Week, a National Hitter of the Month and four SEC weekly awards. Most recently, Doug Nikhazy was named a Collegiate Baseball National Player of the Week, as well as the SEC Pitcher of the Week by the league office. Tim Elko earned four honors before suffering an ACL injury, including NCBWA National Hitter of the Month for March. TJ McCants is the first Rebel freshman to win SEC Freshman of the Week, while Peyton Chatagnier was the first to win SEC Player of the Week after opening weekend.
FIRST NO. 1 RANKING
Baseball America, D1Baseball, Perfect Game and NCBWA made Ole Miss the consensus No. 1 team in the nation after Week 1, the first No. 1 ranking in program history. The Rebels hold a high ranking of No. 9 this week.
HISTORIC SEC START
Ole Miss started SEC play at 6-0 for the first time since the 1964 team started 11-0 in league play en route to a College World Series appearance. It's also the first time Ole Miss swept consecutive SEC series since going 6-0 against Alabama and Tennessee in 2013. This was Ole Miss' first SEC road sweep since taking three from No. 17 Kentucky in 2014.
RECORD-SETTING STREAK
Ole Miss opened the 2020 season with a defeat at home to No. 1 Louisville, led by eventual first round MLB Draft pick Reid Detmers. Starting the next day, Ole Miss went on the greatest tear in program history, reeling off 20 straight victories before finally snapping the spell on Feb. 26, 2021, with a 3-2 loss to UCF. The streak spanned 378 days. The Rebels finished tied for the fifth-most consecutive wins in SEC history (Record: 24 - Texas A&M, 2015) and the longest win streak in the conference since Mizzou won 20 straight in 2017.
