An eight-run top of the third put Ole Miss way ahead in this one. Will Furniss<\/a><\/dfn> with a two-run homer after Owen Paino<\/a><\/dfn> was aboard pinch running for Luke Hill<\/a><\/dfn> got things started. It was 4-3 Ole Miss. Things were just getting started in the inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After Humphrey tripled, two walks loaded the bases, and Fawley was hit by a pitch for a 5-3 UM lead. Brayden Randle<\/a><\/dfn> singled to score Smithwick, who was one of the walks, and it was 6-3. Mitchell Sanford<\/a><\/dfn> singled, and an error on MSU, cleared the bases for a 9-3 Rebel lead. Sanford scored on a wild pitch, and Ole Miss led 10-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the Racers got a run back in the bottom of the third, Ole Miss started the top of the fourth with a rare series of moments – back-to-back-to-back home runs on only three pitches, for Furniss to left, Judd Utermark<\/a><\/dfn> to center, and Humphrey to right. The Rebs led 13-4. There would be two more runs in the inning for a 15-4 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Murray State cut the lead to 15-6 in the bottom of the fourth, and Ole Miss added a run in the top of the fifth. Utermark was on third after a hit by pitch and walks for Humphrey and Campbell Smithwick<\/a><\/dfn>, and it was 16-6 Rebels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Furniss RBI single and a Humphrey RBI double made it 18-6 in the top of the sixth. MSU posted a run in the bottom of the seventh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Owen Paino<\/a><\/dfn> singled in the top of the ninth to score Brayden Randle<\/a><\/dfn> who had reached on a walk, and the Rebels led 19-7. MSU added a run in the bottom of the ninth for the final margin of 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rebel starter Gunnar Dennis<\/a><\/dfn>, the senior left-hander, had a good outing with six earned runs on eight hits with two walks and five strikeouts through four complete. Junior left-hander Ryne Rodriguez<\/a><\/dfn> pitched brilliantly 3.2 innings with one earned run on four hits with two walks and four strikeouts. Junior right-hander Landon Waters<\/a><\/dfn> pitched the rest of the way for the Rebels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Furniss with four hits, and Sanford and Humphrey with three hits each led the Rebels.Rodriguez (1-1) got the win. Starter Kane Elmy (6-2) got the loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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