It is a Friday night under the lights at Swayze Field
in Oxford, Mississippi, playing surface ready to go.
The grills are back.
The fires are going, and you may need those tonight.
Chilly for game one of a three-game series
between number four, Ole Miss, and the Belmont Bruins
out of the Ohio Valley Conference.
Good Friday night and welcome.
Alongside Keith Kessinger, I'm Richard Gross.
We've got college baseball coming your way.
...early on for Bowen, breaking ball.
That hits Justin Bench in the arm,
and that's not what Bowen wanted to do after.
Down in ball four,
almost a continuation of what we saw in the midweek with Ole
Miss being helped by freebies.
Hayden Dunhurst, and he hits a fly ball to right field.
Shacklett moving over toward the right center gap.
He's center-fielder cross.
That's deep enough for a sack fly,
and Ole Miss takes a one...
...to game, and Elko lines this one the opposite way.
That's a base hit, and it will go all the way to the wall.
Jacob Gonzalez comes around to score.
Tim Elko cruises into second base with an RBI double.
Started the season 4 and 0.
This ball hits sharply and past the third baseman, Jarvis.
Coming around to score is Kevin Graham.
Cael Baker goes first to third,
and Ole Miss now leads at three to nothing.
...longs.
Ground ball left side, tough play for the shortstop.
He'll get it and throw to second,
and second baseman Lowry came off the mound.
That's what...
One, two, swing and a miss, strike three.
Campbell goes down swinging,
and from Glendora, California, has been as good as advertised
as he hits a ground ball up to middle for a base in,
and now he's going to try and take second
after the center fielder bobbled it.
He gets in under the tag and is safe at second base.
...on Texas in a three-game series.
One, two, this one is hit sharply and past
the first baseman.
Eaton couldn't handle it.
Gonzalez comes home to score.
Dunhurst trying to get to second,
and he will beat the throw.
Winning six-nothing over Belmont,
runner goes back up the middle, base in,
and Bowen gives up another sharp base hit through the middle.
Elko comes home to score.
Graham goes first to third.
You know, you can't do anything but hit it hard.
You can't guide the baseball,
and sometimes you don't hit it hard, and you find a spot.
That's exactly what happened there.
The runners are going to add to the lead.
RBI single for Tim Elko.
...scored a run his first time up,
and he hits it sharply between the second baseman
and the shortstop, even though they were squeezing
and pulling him or playing him that way.
Four straight hits here in the second inning,
winning six-nothing over Belmont.
Runner goes back up the middle, base in,
and Bowen gives up another sharp base
hit through the middle, two coming in.
This ball lifted left,
Crider to his right makes the catch,
should be deep enough to get the runner home
as Kevin Graham tags and comes home to score,
and Ole Miss leads eight-nothing.
...hitters, they've done a good job
getting themselves into good counts
and taking good swings.
And now McCants slides one into right field.
That's a base hit.
Cael Baker hits the bag at third.
He'll come home without a throw and RBI single.
2-1. This ball lifted to the right, pretty well-hit.
Shacklett on the run, gets to the warning track.
That ball is gone!
Three straight games Tim Elko has gone deep,
and Ole Miss extends the lead.
The ball doesn't carry great here at night normally.
You've got the wind blowing in, and it's blowing in.
Tim Elko, close to a no doubter,
into the Ole Miss bullpen in right field.
That is impressive.
This ball is hit well into right field.
That ball is deep, and that ball is way gone.
Logan Jarvis with a moonshot home run to right field,
his first of the year, and Belmont is on the board.
I don't know if you can hit it any better than that.
I mean, Jarvis got into a fastball count.
It was 88-mile-an-hour fastball.
It left faster than 88.
Second-year freshman,
Lowry is a second-year freshman, and he swings and misses.
...ball coaches across America to get figured out.
There's a swing and a miss, another strikeout,
three strikeouts in the inning.
...going to do, like, sign his hand?
There's a swing and a miss for a strikeout,
strikeout number 10 in the game.
Doug Nikhazy's night is done.
Cody Adcock into the game,
the freshman from Texarkana, Arkansas.
...the play.
This ball hit fair down the left field line,
good swing there by Crider, picked up Kevin Graham.
He'll send it in towards second base,
a lead-off double for the three-hole
hitter Criger or Crider,
his first hit of the name, got nine guys with a zero ERA.
Out of the 17th that have pitched,
Adcock gets a swing and a miss for a strikeout.
New pitcher in the game for Belmont as Dusty Baird comes in.
Friday night, game one of the three-game series.
Kevin Graham hits a rocket to first base.
That's off the chest of Heaton and out into right field.
Ole Miss goes to the bullpen one more time,
and Cole Baker comes in for the Rebels,
and he got a piece of that to -- No, say it hit him.
Catcher's interference.
Oh, sorry.
Knocks Loposer's glove off.
Let's see. It looks like it hurt.
...Florida A&M twice, All-State with a win over Kentucky.
That one is off the glove of Loposer.
He'll flip to Baker, who can't handle the throw.
Another run comes home. It's down 12 to three.
That's Josh Mallitz, the freshman from Tampa.
He's making his fourth appearance of the year.
This, it's this one to right field.
That ball dying fast.
It's a one-hopper in front of John Rhys Plumlee.
Just one run comes home to score,
and RBI single for Logan Jarvis.
No balls, two strikes the 02,
lifted into shallow center field.
Sammons loses his hat but makes the catch,
and that is how this game comes to an end.
Ole Miss 12 to four, highlighted by a Tim Elko home run,
his third in as many games.
We will be back with you tomorrow.
First pitch at 1:30 and then again on Sunday
for the series finale at 1:30.