[rock music]
You're watching college baseball
on the SEC Network.
Let's play two today.
Game one of a doubleheader
between Long Beach State and Ole Miss
coming at ya from Oxford, Mississippi.
Transfer Zack Phillips, his third start of the season,
ERA north of 10, not the start he wanted
in his Ole Miss career, but he's got a chance
to get things figured out this afternoon.
You know the theme for this weekend
seems to be don't let numbers fool you.
Zack Phillips has got a lot of talent,
and he's got a lot of skill on the mound.
You gotta give it to him.
The JUCO transfer getting the nod from
this team and Coach Bianco.
Getting this weekend starting role
which is big.
[wood smacks]
Hard-hit ball, left-side Aidan Malm.
Ball bobbled out in left field,
Long Beach State's gonna get on the board here
in the 1st inning, lots of emotion,
as Connor Kokx scores his first run
as a division one athlete.
D in the lock.
Malm heading down to second.
Cooper Johnson guns him out
for the final out of the inning.
And it was not Grae Kessinger or it was.
[crowd cheers]
Oh and this is gonna tie the game up
A wild pitch gets past the catcher Jimenez.
[wood smacks]
[crowd cheers]
Aiden Molm sends one out to center field.
Around third base comes Huffman, the throw,
won't get there in time.
One-Two offering from Zack Philips.
Ground ball right side.
Good stop from Servideo.
The throw to Zabowski, for out number three.
Connor Green the new pitcher for Ole Miss.
Six foot four 225 pounds senior
from Collierville, Tennessee
right up the road in the Memphis area.
He's got two appearances on the season
and what do you know, two wins
for Connor Green over those two times out on the mound.
[crowd cheers and claps]
Yeah!
Connor Green,
big emotion coming off the mound.
Another strike-out for number 18 to end the inning.
Payoff pitch to number fifteen.
[crowds cheers]
Grae's gonna walk to first
and Carl Gindl is gonna race home
to tie the ballgame up at two.
[wood smacks]
This one goes to upper field.
Right fielder's getting back
he can't track it,
it's gonna drop right in front of the wall.
Olenek with a standup double.
And Kessinger advances all the way to third.
Before hand, now Pacheco, a few balls
in the dirt, these freshman.
[wood smacks]
[crowd cheers]
Keenan to right field.
One run will score.
Here comes Olenek.
Ole Miss up four to two
with Tyler Keenan.
Here's the freshman, Doug Nichazy
taking over for Parker Caracci.
He has a tough task in front of him.
Bases full of dirt bags for the five-ten
200 pound freshman from Florida.
He's made four appearances on the year.
Six strikeouts, no walks.
Nichazy kicks.
[wood smacks] [crowd cheers]
Hard hit ball up the third base line.
One dirt bag's gonna score.
Here comes another, and we're all tied up in Oxford.
Long Beach State.
[wood smacks]
Good piece a hitting here from Porter,
his first hit of the game,
s'gonna bring not one but two dirt bags home.
Long Beach State takes the six-four lead
here in the game.
Six innings and working.
[wood smacks]
Now he won't,
see his team right now, pickup a loss
but Ole Miss is able to get out of the inning.
Nichazy forces the
inning ending. [rock music]
For a double play six-four
Long Beach States leads it.
The great stick at the plate.
[wood smacks]
[crowd cheers]
And right on cue, Brady Servideo,
back up the middle,
Cooper Johnson being waved home.
And look at Hall go to third.
[crowd cheers]
[wood smacks]
Ground ball to short.
Hall's gonna score.
And Kessinger will not beat the throw at first,
but it gets the job done.
By the catcher and the score a run.
No!
There's a wild pitch from Nichazy.
The throw from Cooper Johnson
is able to nab the runner at home.
[wood smacks]
Off-speed pitch is hit to short.
Kessinger charging on.
Throws it to first.
For the third and final out.
[wood smacks]
[crowd cheers]
Deep fly ball to right field.
Thomas Dillard. [crowd cheers]
[loud music]
0 for four going into the end back.
And he'll walk it off
with a shot to right-center field.
[crowd cheers]