{"id":32494,"date":"2016-03-22T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=32494"},"modified":"2016-03-22T18:36:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T00:36:29","slug":"win-over-ut-martin-lifts-rebs-to-best-start-in-program-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/win-over-ut-martin-lifts-rebs-to-best-start-in-program-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Win Over UT-Martin Lifts Rebs to Best Start in Program History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mike Bianco<\/strong>&#8216;s #8 <strong>Ole Miss Rebel<\/strong> baseball team blasted three homers to help defeat <strong>UT-Martin<\/strong> 8-2 on Tuesday. The <strong>Rebels<\/strong> picked up their 20th win of the season on the annual <strong>School Day<\/strong>, where over 6,000 <strong>Oxford<\/strong> and <strong>Lafayette County<\/strong> school children attend the morning game free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>The victory over the <strong>Skyhawks<\/strong> (7-14) improves the Rebels record to 20-2 for the first time in school history, meaning that Ole Miss has never won so many times through its first 22 games.<\/p>\n<p>Three Rebels, <strong>Tate Blackman<\/strong>, <strong>Colby Bortles<\/strong>, and <strong>Cameron Dishon<\/strong>, went yard on Tuesday. The same three Rebs produced three hits apiece to combine for six of the teams seven total hits.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman pitcher <strong>James McArthur<\/strong> earned his third straight victory in three starts, allowing only four hits and striking-out a career high seven batters in 5.0 innings of work. The Rebel bullpen saw three freshmen, <strong>Connor Green<\/strong>, <strong>Dallas Woolfork<\/strong>, and <strong>Andrew Lowe<\/strong> keep UT-Martin scoreless during their time on the mound.<\/p>\n<p>The #8 (D1Baseball.com) Ole Miss Rebels host their first SEC series of the season against the <strong>South Carolina Gamecocks<\/strong> this weekend. Game 1 is Thursday\u00a0night at 6:30 and will be televised on the <strong>SEC Network<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>cover image courtesy of 247sports.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Bianco&#8216;s #8 Ole Miss Rebel baseball team blasted three homers to help defeat UT-Martin 8-2 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":32496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[8169,88,5394,5397,8170,8171,87,2013,6060,8168],"class_list":["post-32494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","category-ole-miss","tag-andrew-lowe","tag-baseball","tag-cameron-dishon","tag-colby-bortles","tag-connor-green","tag-dallas-woolfork","tag-mike-bianco","tag-ole-miss-rebels","tag-tate-blackman","tag-ut-martin-skyhawks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bianco.jpg?fit=620%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}