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Ole Miss Wins
Score should have been a lot worse. One inning 3 hits no runs, another 4 hits 1 run. But a win is a win.
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YES ---big win ---the first round curse is over. 
Holliman went the distance on the mound. Thus, we have our normal SEC weekend rotation 2nd and 3rd game starters (Maloney and Fowler), plus Head, Pettway and Cupps, fresh and ready to go for the rest of the tourney.
Rebs are in great shape and ready to roll.
Holliman went the distance on the mound. Thus, we have our normal SEC weekend rotation 2nd and 3rd game starters (Maloney and Fowler), plus Head, Pettway and Cupps, fresh and ready to go for the rest of the tourney.
Rebs are in great shape and ready to roll.
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Ole Miss 5, Maine 0
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- The Mississippi Rebels desperately want to make up for their embarrassing exit from last year's postseason, and perhaps no one had more to prove than Mark Holliman.
The Ole Miss ace, rocked in the 2004 regionals, bounced back by allowing just six hits in his second career shutout, a 5-0 victory over Maine in the Oxford Regional on Friday night.
It was a drastic improvement over last year's regional, when Holliman allowed five runs in two-thirds of an inning in a 7-2 loss to Washington almost exactly one year earlier.
``It feels so much better than it did last year,'' Holliman said. ``Last year, I had a rough outing in the first game, and to be able to come out and not give up a run tonight, give us a 1-0 (tournament) lead, really makes me feel good.''
This time, Holliman (8-4) retired 12 of 13 batters during a dominating mid-game stretch for the top-seeded Rebels (45-18), who play No. 3 seed Oklahoma on Saturday after Southern Mississippi faces the fourth-seeded Black Bears (34-18).
He allowed just two runners to reach second, and didn't allow Maine to assemble anything resembling a scoring threat in his first complete game shutout since he allowed three hits in May 2004 in a 1-0 win over Arkansas.
``Best game of the year, certainly, and I don't know if he had his best stuff,'' Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said. ``Like he's been all year, he's tough.''
Henry had run-scoring singles in the fourth and sixth innings in helping Ole Miss start to make amends for its embarrassing showing in last year's tournament. The first time Oxford hosted a regional, the Rebels flopped and finished 0-2 - including a two-hit loss to lightly regarded Western Kentucky the night before Washington teed off on Holliman.
The Rebels wouldn't let the Black Bears become the second No. 4 seed to beat them at Swayze Field, totaling 12 hits but failing to break this one open until Henry came through twice in the middle innings.
``We weren't going to get a ton of opportunities, but they took our opportunities away by playing great defense,'' Maine coach Paul Kostacopoulos said.
Henry delivered an RBI single to score Barry Gunther in the fourth, then followed a run-scoring single by Miles Franklin with one of his own to extend the lead to four runs and chase Maine starter Greg Norton (9-4).
``I was just trying to go up there ... and get the run home any way I could,'' Henry said. ``I was lucky to find a hole, just a little single through there, and it was big for us.''
Zack Cozart finished with three hits and Chris Coghlan added an RBI groundout for Ole Miss, which scored in the first when Brian Pettway delivered a run-scoring single.
Greg Creek, who had three of Maine's six hits, said he didn't know of the Rebels' 2004 postseason failures until the Black Bears arrived in Oxford during the week.
``It was kind of an odd thing to hear, that Ole Miss went two-and-out last year,'' Creek said. ``But we knew they would come at us hard with their ace because of that situation.''
The Rebels had chances throughout the early innings to make this one even more lopsided - if not for some gaffes and questionable decisions on the basepaths.
Pettway was stranded at third in the third inning after Stephen Head was caught trying to advance to second on a flyout.
In the fourth, Cooper Osteen advanced to third with nobody out and attempted to score on Gunther's double-play grounder to the mound - only to be tagged out at the plate when shortstop Ray Vallee wisely threw home instead of to first base.
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) -- The Mississippi Rebels desperately want to make up for their embarrassing exit from last year's postseason, and perhaps no one had more to prove than Mark Holliman.
The Ole Miss ace, rocked in the 2004 regionals, bounced back by allowing just six hits in his second career shutout, a 5-0 victory over Maine in the Oxford Regional on Friday night.
It was a drastic improvement over last year's regional, when Holliman allowed five runs in two-thirds of an inning in a 7-2 loss to Washington almost exactly one year earlier.
``It feels so much better than it did last year,'' Holliman said. ``Last year, I had a rough outing in the first game, and to be able to come out and not give up a run tonight, give us a 1-0 (tournament) lead, really makes me feel good.''
This time, Holliman (8-4) retired 12 of 13 batters during a dominating mid-game stretch for the top-seeded Rebels (45-18), who play No. 3 seed Oklahoma on Saturday after Southern Mississippi faces the fourth-seeded Black Bears (34-18).
He allowed just two runners to reach second, and didn't allow Maine to assemble anything resembling a scoring threat in his first complete game shutout since he allowed three hits in May 2004 in a 1-0 win over Arkansas.
``Best game of the year, certainly, and I don't know if he had his best stuff,'' Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said. ``Like he's been all year, he's tough.''
Henry had run-scoring singles in the fourth and sixth innings in helping Ole Miss start to make amends for its embarrassing showing in last year's tournament. The first time Oxford hosted a regional, the Rebels flopped and finished 0-2 - including a two-hit loss to lightly regarded Western Kentucky the night before Washington teed off on Holliman.
The Rebels wouldn't let the Black Bears become the second No. 4 seed to beat them at Swayze Field, totaling 12 hits but failing to break this one open until Henry came through twice in the middle innings.
``We weren't going to get a ton of opportunities, but they took our opportunities away by playing great defense,'' Maine coach Paul Kostacopoulos said.
Henry delivered an RBI single to score Barry Gunther in the fourth, then followed a run-scoring single by Miles Franklin with one of his own to extend the lead to four runs and chase Maine starter Greg Norton (9-4).
``I was just trying to go up there ... and get the run home any way I could,'' Henry said. ``I was lucky to find a hole, just a little single through there, and it was big for us.''
Zack Cozart finished with three hits and Chris Coghlan added an RBI groundout for Ole Miss, which scored in the first when Brian Pettway delivered a run-scoring single.
Greg Creek, who had three of Maine's six hits, said he didn't know of the Rebels' 2004 postseason failures until the Black Bears arrived in Oxford during the week.
``It was kind of an odd thing to hear, that Ole Miss went two-and-out last year,'' Creek said. ``But we knew they would come at us hard with their ace because of that situation.''
The Rebels had chances throughout the early innings to make this one even more lopsided - if not for some gaffes and questionable decisions on the basepaths.
Pettway was stranded at third in the third inning after Stephen Head was caught trying to advance to second on a flyout.
In the fourth, Cooper Osteen advanced to third with nobody out and attempted to score on Gunther's double-play grounder to the mound - only to be tagged out at the plate when shortstop Ray Vallee wisely threw home instead of to first base.
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