Recap of Ole Miss/Arkansas Series

Bringing Out the Brooms

Junior SS Errol Robinson celebrates after having crossed home plate.

After having lost five straight games, Ole Miss(25-7, 6-6 SEC) has quickly bounced back and won five straight. The Rebs were 20-2 after having won a road series at Tennessee. Things were looking really good for Ole Miss, and then the Rebels were swept AT HOME by a very solid South Carolina team. The weekend preceding that horrible one, Ole Miss did not change their ways at Dudy Noble Field in Starkville, MS. State took the first two, and Ole Miss would go on to win the final game in that series to start a winning streak.

Last week, Ole Miss went to Pearl, MS, to play Southern Miss in Trustmark Park and defeated the Golden Eagles, 6-2. FYI: USM was #13 in the RPI at that time; thus meaning they are a good baseball team. And then to this weekend where the Rebels hosted #21 Arkansas. In the last ten games that include a five-game winning AND losing streak, the Rebels have not swung the bats well at all. This weekend was different.

Brady Bramlett, Ole Miss' Friday starting pitcher, went out and flat out balled. He had 12 K's in 7.0 innings pitched and gave up 0 runs in the Rebels' 7-3 victory. Saturday's matchup included 23 combined runs, and thankfully, Ole Miss contributed to a large majority of those. Ole Miss won the game 14-9, thanks to six runs in the eighth inning. Arkansas had a late push in that game, eight combined runs in the eighth AND ninth innings to make it somewhat interesting. Seven Rebels recorded a double in this game: Ryan Olenek, Holt Perdzock, Connor Cloyd, Michael Fitzsimmons, Kyle Watson, Errol Robinson, and Colby Bortles. You do not see many 23 combined runs along with 29 combined hits in a game. On Sunday, Ole Miss was desperate for a sweep to bring them to .500 in SEC play. They did just that. Wyatt Short, surprisingly, got his first-career start on Sunday. Short usually is the Rebels' closer, but the need for a Sunday pitcher was and is bad. JB Woodman's homer in the second inning was the highlight of the game, and it was one of the only Swayze shower of the weekend, also.

Ole Miss was ranked 4th in the RPI going into this weekend and ranged form 14-18 depending on polls in the real rankings. Ole Miss stayed at 4 in the RPI, and the rankings will come out tomorrow. I will tweet where Ole Miss stands throughout the day tomorrow. Ole Miss hosts Southern Miss at Swayze Field on Wednesday, April 13, at 6:30 PM on the SECNetwork+, and the road Rebs will visit Tuscaloosa, AL, this weekend to play Alabama!

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