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Rebels and the SEC tournament

It’s very muggy with lots of fog at Hoover Met this morning. Ole Miss and Alabama will play the day’s first game, an elimination game, at 9:30. Here are Ole Miss leaders for two games in the SEC tournament: Hitting

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Day 2 Begins

From the Mother Ship, our coverage of the Rebels’ 4-1 win over Kentucky in one of those brand-spanking new SEC tournament elimination games. Mayers strong, bullpen strong too Short rest no problem for Mayers

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Van Horn sees CWS potential in Ole Miss

Ole Miss won four SEC series in the regular season. One of them was Arkansas on the opening weekend. The Rebels won two games including the clincher on Sunday, 6-4 in 13 innings. That made an impression on Arkansas coach

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Big moment for Massie

A couple of other things to wrap up Day 1. First, Mike Bianco liked the way his team swung the bats. Eleven hits for Ole Miss, four of them doubles, but the Rebels needed more than four runs out of

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Pitching notes for second day

Mike Bianco did not name a Game 2 starter after the Rebels’ 4-1 win over Kentucky earlier today. We may hear a name later on, but right now it’s TBA. If he keeps the rotation he had for the final

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Mayers takes on the Cats

Mike Mayers was the only Ole Miss pitcher to beat Kentucky this season, and he’ll get a shot to do it again tomorrow. The junior right-hander was announced as the Rebels’ starter earlier this evening. Mayers is 4-5 with a

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Ole Miss starter TBA for now

While Kentucky has announced its starter for Game 1 of the SEC tournament, Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco says it will be tonight before he knows what his pitching plans will be. If Bianco chooses to throw Mike Mayers, his

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Going with Grundy

Kentucky coach Gary Henderson is hoping Jerad Grundy’s recent past – his very recent past – is more important than his past at Ole Miss. Mid-season struggles from Grundy against the SEC prompted Henderson to drop Grundy from the weekend

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Heading to Hoover

The SEC baseball tournament begins tomorrow in Hoover, Ala. There’s one less baseball coach in the league right now since Georgia has parted ways with David Perno, according to reports. Here’s the link. Ole Miss assistant Cliff Godwin is one

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Ole Miss 11, LSU 9

If you’ve been following along on the blog you may have seen me hammer on the Ole Miss bullpen of late. Well, the Rebels can thank their bullpen for helping them not get swept in Baton Rouge. Just following along

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Standing behind bullpen

LSU feels it has nothing left to prove in the regular season. That may be the case for the Tigers, who will sit their ace this weekend, but that isn’t the case for Ole Miss, which can improve its postseason

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Elevating the offense

Mike Bianco mentioned to us earlier this year that when one phase is struggling you need to win with other phases. For Ole Miss most of this season that’s been pitching and defense. There have been occasional bursts of offense

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About Last Night

Southern Miss steamrolled Ole Miss 10-3 as the Rebels closed out their non-conference schedule. A few pitching thoughts here. The Golden Eagles had 16 hits. For the most part it was experimentation night for Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco. Freshman

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