Rebels Drop Series in Starkville, Reach Midway Point of Conference Play

Ole Miss likely has very little to play for in 2023 after its showing at Mississippi State over the weekend.

The Ole Miss Rebels baseball season is on life support.

Mike Bianco's team dropped its final two games and the series this weekend against the Mississippi State Bulldogs, narrowly-missing a series-clinching win on Saturday thanks to a walk-off effort from State.

The Rebels went on to lose again on Sunday, and it now sits at 3-12 in conference play, residing in the basement of the SEC and in real danger of missing the conference tournament a year removed from winning the national championship.

On Sunday, Ole Miss fell behind 3-0 in the bottom of the third, but it pushed across a run in the top of the sixth and two in the seventh to knot the game up at three apiece. State, however, responded with a two-run home run in the bottom half of that inning to claim its 5-3 lead which also was the final score.

The Rebels gave the ball to JT Quinn on the mound to start, and he threw 5.2 innings of three-run ball. He gave way to a combination of Cole Ketchum, Jackson Kimbrell and Mitch Murrell, and Kimbrell was credited with the loss due to allowing the deciding two-run shot in the seventh.

Kemp Alderman and Anthony Calarco were responsible for the only RBIs for the Rebels on Sunday afternoon.

Ole Miss now has lost seven-straight weekend series to the Bulldogs, and it will need to go on a historic run down the stretch if it hopes to play baseball this postseason. The road, however, is not an easy one.

The Rebels' next conference series will come at Swayze Field next weekend when they play host to the LSU Tigers. That matchup is set to begin on Friday at 6:30 p.m. CT on SEC Network+.

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