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The Ole Miss baseball team's National Title Bays volition make its style towards the land's capital in Pearl and make an appearance at the Mississippi Braves' Thursday (July 7) matchup with the Pensacola Blue Wahoos.

A photo op opportunity will be available at Trustmark Park'due southFarm Bureau Grill & Outdoor Patio from v pm to 8 pm CT. Thursday's matchup will exist a doubleheader starting at five:35 p.k. CT with gatesopening an 60 minutes beforehand. In addition, thanks to the M-Braves' partnership with Farm Bureau, all fans wearing Ole Miss gear to the Trustmark Park box office volition receive a $5 Field Level Ticket.

The Rebels are just over a calendar week removed from winning their beginning the baseball game program's commencement National Title, thanks to an impressive postseason run where the Rebels finished with a 10-i mark, outscoring their opponents past a combined 82-25 margin.

In their National Championship series with the Oklahoma Sooners, the Rebels swept. In game one,Jack Dougherty threw a no-hit shutout in five complete innings before the Sooners institute their fashion back into the game before the finish of the sixth. However, in front of a ascendant Ole Miss faithful, the Rebels hit dorsum-to-back-to-back dwelling runs in the 8th to pull away and somewhen win 10-3.The Rebels racked up 16 hits, with five dissimilar Rebels getting multiple hits. Tim Elko led the mode by finishing 4-for-five at the plate, one of which was a dwelling run that began the 3rd inning. Peyton Chatagnier finished 3-for-5, while Calvin Harris, Kemp Alderman and Justin Bench each finished with ii. The back-to-dorsum-to-back dwelling runs in the eighth inning came from Harris, Bench and TJ McCants. Information technology was the showtime time that a squad striking that many consecutive home runs in the College Earth Series since 1998, when LSU did so against Mississippi State. Jack Dougherty retired the outset 15 batters he faced and at the terminate of the night, he gave up three hits and 2 runs while hit out half dozen batters.

In Ole Miss' championship clinching matchup the following solar day,Hunter Elliott competed for 6.2 innings and struck out half dozen batters while giving up three hits, two runs and two walks. Mason Nichols, John Gaddis and Brandon Johnson carried the torch the residual of the way, with the latter throwing the last strike to take the chapeau off Charles Schwab Stadium and start the in field dogpile. Jacob Gonzalez led the way offensively, going three-for-4 at the plate and batting in two of Ole Miss iv runs on the afternoon, 1 of those hits was a home run that ended upwards beingness the beginning run of the game. Justin Bench, Kevin Graham and TJ McCants each added a hitting.

The Rebels plant themselves trailing 2-i going into the bottom of the 8th, facing Oklahoma'southward Cade Horton, who had been giving them fits all game long on the mound. With his pitch count in the 100s, TJ McCants started the rally with a ane-out single up the middle. Almost immediately, the Sooners turned to their closer Trevin Michael. Immediately, Justin Bench singled to correct field to put the Rebels in business, with runners at the corners and one out. And and so Jacob Gonzalez singled through the right side, scoring TJ McCants to necktie the game. Then, the Rebels took advantage of 2 wild pitches to take the lead, giving them the runs they need to win it all.