College World Series: Ole Miss vs. Arkansas

Ole Miss Catcher Hayden Dunhurst said, “We were kind of at the all-time low in Arkansas, and well just kind of looked at each other, and it was either the season was going to be over after that weekend if we didn’t start winning, and we were just going to keep playing our baseball and see what happens. We ended up getting in, and we’ve just been playing good baseball recently.”

Ole Miss Head Coach Mike Bianco said, “Knew we were close, but just still at that time you just didn’t know which way we would go. And we played well at Arkansas, just not kind of in that niche where we – not well enough. Another weekend, I think that’s the third weekend in a row on Friday or on the opening day of the series, and weren’t able to get one of the next two. But they were really close games.”

When Ole Miss looked up at the SEC standings after dropping two out of three at Arkansas, Mike Bianco saw something he’d never seen before: a league mark of just 7-14.

The Rebels responded by winning seven out of their last nine conference games and 15 out of their last 18 overall as their road to and through Omaha continues to feel like a College World Series revenge tour.

Ole Miss and Arkansas in a rematch of the Fayetteville barn burner, in which all three games were decided by three runs or less.

Ole Miss wins 13-5. Rebels still winners bracket living, now just one win away from punching its ticket to the championship series, awaiting the winner of Arkansas and Auburn.