Ole Miss keeps its offense going as it hits three homers in a row to take a big lead over Oklahoma. There is a time and a place for this.
Ole Miss is one win away from being the last team standing in the baseball tournament.
The first game of the best-of-three Men's College World Series finals was won by Mississippi, powered by a relief pitcher named Jack Dougherty. The team's 1-2 ace had been used up in Mississippi's march to this championship series so the sophomore was forced into service as a starter. The righty responded with his longest outing of the season, a five-inning no-hitter before leaving with a four-run lead and the bases loaded. The relief came from a freshman right-handed pitcher named Mason Nichols, who struck out five of the seven batters he faced and gave up one run.
A trio of Ole Miss pitchers enjoyed an early-established cushion, as their hitting teammates posted two runs in the top of the first and added one more each in the second and thirdinnings. The last of those came off the bat of fifth-year senior and emerging Oxford, Mississippi, folk hero Tim Elko, who blasted his 24th home run of the season, the highlight of a 4 for 5 night at the plate.
The team hit back-to-back homers in the top of the eighth, the first team to do that since LSU in 1998.
Jake Bennett was sent to the mound with a week's worth of rest after he hadn't pitched since the opening game of the College World Series. With a chance to win the title on five days' rest, Ole Miss will have No. 2 starter HunterElliott on the mound Sunday afternoon. If a Game 3 is necessary on Monday, Dylan DeLucia might be available for at least some work.
The University of Mississippi is one win away from its first MCWS title and the school's second ever NCAA-recognized national championship. One year ago the women's golf team won the title. The Associated Press and coaches polls did not honor the three national titles the school claimed in football.
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