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OPINION: LET’S WAIT FOR THE STORM TO PASS
OLE MISS’S SUNDAY GAME WITH WRIGHT STATE CANCELED
Jacob Gambrell writes, “No matter how noble your motives are, please do not participate in a counterprotest. Our community’s safety is more important. Your safety is more important.”
After splitting the first two games of the opening weekend series, game three on Sunday was canceled due to rain. Our new column “Bases loaded” will take a look at three points from the weekend.
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There’s a new (interim) chief in town Students struggle to afford insulin
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Jeff McCutchen will prioritize increasing dialogue in the community as Oxford Police Department’s new interim police chief. McCutchen, a New Albany native, began working at OPD as a patrol officer and worked his way up to major of operations over a span of 14 years. He first started interacting with the community on a large scale by helping launch OPD’s Twitter profile, which has a following of over 38,000 people. “The goal of starting the Twitter page was just to start having a conversation with people,” he said. McCutchen wants to build on this philosophy, regardless of the length of his term as interim police chief. “Our goal is to be a relationship-building department,” he said. “We want to care about our community. We want to pour into our community, and you do that with balance. That’s balance with enforcement, and that’s balance with community involvement.” McCutchen said even though policing in a college town is subject to a unique set of difficulties, college students in the community are generally cooperative and receptive to the police department.
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Interim police chief Jeff McCutchen is working to build relationships between the Oxford Police Department and students as well as Oxford residents. “I want (students) to know that we aren’t perfect and we realize that,” McCutchen said. “But we can have a better relationship by communicating more and working better together.” During this past year,
many community members had questions about how to best cooperate with OPD when going to bars on the Square because of the passage of the Alcohol and Safety ordinance in September which requires alcohol-serv-
ing establishments to scan patrons’ IDs. The city and the police department pushed for the passage of the ordinance because they believed it would
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Assistant Dean of the School of Journalism and New Media Patricia Thompson was honored as Educator of the Year at the 33rd annual Southeast Journalism Conference last weekend. “I had no idea I was even nominated for the award, so it was a complete surprise to me,” Thompson said. “I’m still pretty emotional about it. Journalism has been my passion since I was elected editor of my school newsletter when I was 11 years old. I’ve been teaching here and
in charge of student media for almost 10 years, and it has truly been a dream job.” Middle Tennessee State University hosted the 2019 conference in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with over 300 students and advisers in attendance. Thompson was nominated for the honor by current and former students, and she was chosen by a committee of the three most recent recipients of the award. After graduating from the University of Missouri, Thompson worked for The Washington Post PHOTO COURTESY: ETHEL MWEDZIWENDIRA and taught at Northwestern Members of Ole Miss student media attended the Southeast Journalism SEE SEJC PAGE 4 Conference last weekend.
Mary McDaniel, a sophomore psychology major, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was three years old and has been prescribed insulin most of her life. McDaniel is reliant on insulin, so there’s no choice but to pay the price, even as costs drastically increase. “It’s a dire-need medication. It’s a necessity,” she said. According to a congressional report released last fall by the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, the price of insulin across the country has more than doubled since 2012 after a nearly 300-percent increase from 2002 to 2013. “Diabetes care is so profitable that it makes sense to quadruple (the price of) the one thing you need,” McDaniel said. “You can’t find a cheaper version of insulin. You just have to have insulin.” While type 2 diabetes can often be controlled by diet and exercise, type 1 diabetes is a result of the pancreas being unable to produce sufficient insulin. Therefore, people with type 1 diabetes have to rely on an insulin pump or insulin shots to lower their blood sugar. “It’s like water,” McDaniel said. “We can go a certain amount (of time) without it, but we’ll end up in the hospital. And we can’t live long without it.” People with type 1 diabetes reported average annual insulin costs of $5,705 in 2016. The average cost was roughly half that, at $2,864 per patient, in 2012, according to a Health Care Cost Institute report released in January. “For a three month supply, (insulin is) generally
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Storm clouds are looming over Oxford. While rain and thunderstorms are predicted from Tuesday until Sunday, there is a stronger and more concerning ideological storm heading toward our campus. University students, faculty and staff and Oxonians, I implore you to first and foremost value your own safety and weather this storm indoors. As many of you may already be aware, two organizations, the Memphis-based Confederate 901 and the Arkansas-based Hiwaymen, will be rallying in Oxford and on the university’s campus on Saturday, Feb. 23. The event’s Facebook page, which lists slightly fewer than 100 attendees going and more than 340 who are interested, as of Feb. 17, says that the goal is to protest the university ad-
ministration’s erasure of Confederate-adjacent traditions — such as the Confederate battle flag, Col. Reb, the state flag and the song “Dixie” — and oppose efforts to remove the Confederate monument from its current prominent position in the Circle. They write, “It’s time we draw the line in the sand!!! WE WILL NOT LET ANOTHER CHAPEL HILL HAPPEN IN OUR STATE!!!!!!” While they are very concerned with students removing the monument themselves, as occurred at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, we need to be much more concerned with another Charlottesville happening in our community. While at a smaller scale, all of the pieces that led to the death of Heather Heyer and the injuries of many others in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 will be present in our community. In fact, the Facebook page of the Hiwaymen shows that they were present at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. In response to these outsiders coming to the LOU community and turning us into nothing more than a weapon in our nation’s culture war, several counterprotests have been organized. While I believe the Confederate monument should be
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removed from campus and am not afraid to call out the pro-confederate beliefs and white supremacist ideology of these two organizations as dehumanizing and morally reprehensible, I think that engaging in counterprotests is unwise and unsafe. These are organizations that enjoy causing outrage. Like many on the far-right, nothing fuels them more than “triggering the liberals.” They want to be met by a large counterprotest, and the best way to ensure this rally does not become an annually recurring event is to not give them what they want. Let them come to Oxford, do their protest with no audience to fuel them and then go back to where they came from. Our counterprotests in the name of love, inclusion, equality and justice, while sending a great message, will not change their minds. In fact, they will only lend fuel to the fire and possibly inflame the already smoldering fault lines of our nation’s culture war. This is neither the time nor place to fight. No matter how noble your motives are, please do not participate in a counterprotest. Our community’s safety is more important. Your safety is more important. In 1962, Paul Guihard and Ray Gunter were mur-
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dered during a riot over white supremacy and racial tension. In 2017, Heather Heyer was murdered in a riot in Charlottesville over the same issues. Please don’t let it happen in our community in 2019. Share on social media and encourage your friends to avoid the Square, University Avenue and the Circle on Saturday afternoon. Stay safe as we let this storm pass quietly and quickly. Come Sunday, the sun will shine through the clouds, and we will continue the fight against white supremacy in our community. Jacob Gambrell is a senior international studies major from Chattanooga, Tennessee.
CORRECTION
A front page article on Thursday incorrectly stated that the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia took place in 2016. The rally occurred in August 2017. That article may have also left the incorrect impression that the group Confederate 901 participated in the Charlottesville rally. That group was not founded at the time of the rally. The article correctly noted that the group’s founder and some current members did attend the Charlottesville rally.
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continued from page 1 $250, but last time with the deductible it was $1,499,” McDaniel said. “The pharmacist will ask you, ‘Are you sure you want to get it?’ Well yeah, it’s insulin. I can’t live without it.” Grace Conway, a freshman engineering student who also has type 1 diabetes, said that if a patient’s blood sugar spikes for a long period of time, it will lead to diabetic ketoacidosis, which is a serious complication of diabetes that can lead to hospitalization. “If your blood sugar stays high for a long time, it damages everything in your body,” Conway said. “They don’t know how, but it does. The lenses in my eyes swell, and my vision gets blurry.” According to McDaniel, some patients ration out their insulin shots to preserve the dosage, but while rationing, they also have to change their diets. Patients can also choose to get injectables rather than pumps to save money. A study from Yale University published in 2018 found that one in four diabetic patients admitted to reducing insulin doses on account of the rising prices. “There really isn’t any way around it,” Conway said. “If I ate, there’s nothing I could take or do that could lower my blood sugar the way insulin does. If I go on a run, it will lower it, but nothing can (replace) insulin.” McDaniel says she is fortunate enough to have access to a health insurance policy and the funds she needs for the treatment, but she is concerned for diabetic patients without health insurance who have to pay out of pocket and for those who don’t have the funds to pay at all. Dr. Travis Yates, the director of University Health Services, said that insulin is an essential medication for a patient with type 1 diabetes. However, he said he could not offer a specific reason as to why the cost of insulin has increased. “I cannot answer this question, but I believe this pharmaceutical industry issue is being debated at a congressional level, involving insulin as well as many other life-sav-
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ing cancer medications,” Yates said. Many doctors and people who have diabetes point to the lack of downward pressures on the prices in the insulin market as the fundamental reason for the hike in prices. “These market failures have allowed a handful of players along the insulin distribution pipeline from manufacturers to health insurers to capitalize on their strategic positions, driving up the price
of insulin and minimizing competition,” read the Fall 2018 Congressional Diabetes Caucus report. Most insulin makers are protected from generic brand competitors by patent law as long as they make changes to their products every several years to extend their exclusivity rights. “It’s awful because the people that can’t afford it, well, there’s no if ands or buts. You need it,” Conway said.
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continued from page 1 decrease crime on the Square and help prevent minors from drinking at bars. McCutchen said there are still some issues with the ordinance being worked out, and he is working with bar owners to correct them. He didn’t specify
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continued from page 1 University. She was also a part of the San Jose Mercury News staff that was awarded the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting. “Assistant Dean Thompson has been a leader for many years in journalism education,” said Will Norton, the dean of the School of Journalism and New Media. “As the executive director of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, she is the major player in maintaining the quality of journalism education around the world.” University of Mississippi students also won awards in the two regional contests sponsored by the conference. The Best of the South contest honors the work of student journalists from throughout the previous year, and the on-site competitions gave students the opportunity to
the issues at play but said the police department is looking to improve the implementation of the ordinance. He said he doesn’t think the issues with the ordinance are going to be fixed “in two weeks or three months,” but rather through approaching incidents on a case by case basis. He hopes OPD will be able to communicate with bar owners and students on how to improve
the ordinance and safety on the Square. “It’s going to be one of those things where, case by case, conversation by conversation, we get everybody working together, and I think we’re working on that,” McCutchen said. McCutchen became the interim chief when former OPD Chief Joey East announced his candidacy for Lafayette County sheriff. The city requires any-
one who is employed by the city to take a leave of absence while running for public office. East said he thought McCutchen was a great choice to lead the department but emphasized it will be difficult for him to push for new ideas or make a lot of changes as an interim chief. “(McCutchen) will need to keep the department moving forward with technology, and I
believe a major challenge that he is up for will be to prepare and propose a budget that takes OPD through the coming year,” East said in an email to The Daily Mississippian. When asked if he would consider taking on the role of permanent police chief in the case East is elected sheriff, McCutchen said, “That’s not up to me.”
compete on deadline during the conference. In the Best of the South competition, The Daily Mississippian was awarded fifth place for Best College Newspaper. It was the only daily newspaper competing for Best of the South. “I’m incredibly proud of our staff’s work over the last year, and I think this showing among a field of weekly and monthly papers is a testament to some incredible dedication and hard work over here,” Slade Rand, editor-in-chief of The Daily Mississippian, said. “It was really cool to get that award, even if it is simply a reminder that other people do notice what we do.” Also in the Best of the South contest, NewsWatch Ole Miss’s Madison Scarpino won first place for TV hard news reporting. Second place Best of the South awards included Devna Bose for feature writing, Elizabeth Blackstock, Katie Campbell and Jessi Dressler for journalism research paper and
Rebel Radio for radio news audio program. Third place awards included Hayden Benge for news graphic design, DeAndria Turner for radio journalism
Brown, who won eighth place for College Journalist of the Year. “I’ve worked with some super talented young journalists who have graduated and are
onship of on-site competitions with seven individual wins. “I was absolutely thrilled for our students that won awards at SEJC, especially the on-site awards,” NewsWatch Ole Miss Station Manager Abbie McIntosh said. “Those awards showed everyone and ourselves, that we know how to produce good work under pressure and tight deadlines. Like I’ve said before, everyone puts in hard work and dedication, day in and day out, and to win some awards is a really good feeling.” Matthew Hendley won first place in the on-site competition for TV anchoring, and Hayden Benge, Hailey McKee and Davis Roberts won first place as a team for public relations. Second place awards went to Devna Bose for feature writing and Abbie McIntosh and Madison Scarpino for TV reporting. Third place awards went to Liam Nieman for arts and entertainment writing and Slade Rand for news writing.
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I’m incredibly proud of our staff’s work over the last year, and I think this showing among a field of weekly and monthly papers is a testament to some incredible dedication and hard work over here. It was really cool to get that award, even if it is simply a reminder that other people do notice what we do.” Slade Rand Editor-in-chief, The Daily Mississippian
and Rebel Radio for radio station. Other individual awards included: Mary Clair Kelly, who won fifth place for TV news feature reporting; Slade Rand, who won sixth place for news writing; Liam Nieman, who won seventh place place for arts and entertainment writing; Jaz Brisack, who won seventh place for opinion-editorial writing and Brittany
doing great work as professional journalists, and I know this year’s staff will do the same,” Thompson said. “Every day, I marvel at how hard they work under deadline pressure to produce such outstanding content to keep the community informed.” In addition to 13 Best of the South awards, the University of Mississippi also won second place for the Grand Champi-
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Lawyer-turned-novelist talks with Kiese Laymon ELIZA NOE
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Author Maurice Carlos Ruffin quietly rose from the high-top chair next to fellow writer and Ole Miss professor Kiese Laymon. Printed sheets in hand, he stepped forward and recounted his nameless narrator’s nightmarish office Halloween party. Ruffin, a New Orleans native and lawyer, read an excerpt from and answered questions about his debut novel “We Cast a Shadow” Friday evening at Off Square Books. Set in the South in the near future and described by The New York Times as a “satire that guts American racism,” the book describes the narrator’s journey to to afford treatment for his son’s growing birthmark by working his way to the top of a law firm. After initial introductions, Laymon recounted first meeting Ruffin in Miami. Laymon said the lawyerturned-novelist boldly stated that he would become the best novelist from New Orleans. “We Cast a Shadow” could be the first step to that goal. “I’d never read anything by this brother. Usually those sort of audacious statements are followed by a lot of bravado,” Laymon said. “But after a few minutes with Maurice, I saw this commitment to tenderness that I rarely see in men, and he somehow was able to bring that audacity and that tenderness to this amazing book. When I read (“We Cast a Shadow”), I wondered, ‘Can he really, really write? Can he really pull off that shit?’ And he more than pulled it off.” When asked about Nigel, the narrator’s son, Ruffin said he thinks a lot about the duality of the narrator’s decision to look into the “demelanization” of his son — what he assumes is the lesser
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Authors Maurice Carlos Ruffin and Kiese Laymon speak to a crowd on Friday at Off Square Books. Ruffin discussed his new book “We Cast a Shadow,” which deals with themes of race relations and racism in America. of two evils. “I think that Nigel represents a lot of people in America,” Ruffin said. “Black folks, first and foremost, but also transgender people and women, often, in this society which is so patriarchal and misogynistic. I think all the time about how we expound the ideals of equality — like acting as Christians, for example — and yet, the physical decisions we make toward each other are often so damaging and hurtful.” Along the same lines, Ruffin described how best to protect young, black children who are growing up in the Deep South.
Ruffin believes that keeping black children safe starts with caring for them. “First, we have to give them a sense of pride, self-love,” Ruffin said. “You treat them well, you feed them well, you hug them.” Ruffin said he has always considered himself a novelist, but this wasn’t without forays into short stories and essays before he decided to take the plunge into “We Cast a Shadow.” “I think writing a novel is a way to approach a question that is bigger than your brain,” Ruffin added. In 2014, Eric Garner, a
43-year-old black man, died after an NYPD officer put him in a chokehold. That same year, Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old, was shot by a Cleveland police officer. After discussing these high-profile cases, Ruffin said he didn’t understand the reasons behind such violence. After being unable to answer the question for himself, Ruffin said he decided that his narrator should be the one to find the answer. “I basically said subconsciously to my protagonist, ‘I’m going to assign you this problem, and I want you to work on it nonstop for the next four years,’” Ruffin
said. “So, basically, he’s been working on this problem, and the novel is a result of that.” Corey Davis, a junior English major, said she enjoyed the fluidity of Ruffin’s recitation because his verbal performance of excerpts from the novel strayed from the exact written wording. “I liked that he performed his book in real time and changed things about it,” Davis said. “It’s cool to think that, even though his book is in print and permanent, it can still be altered and made better. In that way, it’s like art.”
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SOFTBALL
Softball wins three of five games on West Coast JOSHUA CLAYTON
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Ole Miss Softball went 3-2 in the Stacy Winsburg Memorial Tournament in Westwood, California, over the weekend. The Rebels’ West Coast trip featured wins over UC Riverside, California Polytechnic and Oregon State as well as losses to No. 2 UCLA and Boise State. The Ole Miss offense took over on Friday. The Rebels beat UC Riverside 11-3 first after being down early in the game. The Highlanders’ lead was short-lived, as Kylan Becker and Jessica Puk scored in the first and second innings to tie the score. Starting pitcher Brittany Finney later hit a home run to take the lead, and the Rebels never looked back. Finney hit two home runs for the first time in her career. Ole Miss scored five runs in the fifth to force a
run-rule victory. The Rebels earned their second victory of the day with a 5-2 win over Cal Poly. With the Mustangs up 2-1 in the early going, the Rebels overcame a deficit for the second time with Ally Mena and Becker batting in runs in the second inning. A sacrifice fly from Abbey Latham in the seventh extended the Rebels’ lead with Mikayla Allee and Becker scoring. Molly Jacobsen then shut the door on the Cal Poly offense, earning a save for Ole Miss. The Rebels split their Saturday doubleheader against Oregon State and UCLA. Molly Jacobsen shut down Oregon State in the second start of her career, giving Ole Miss a 2-0 victory to start the day. Ole Miss led from the start, as Latham brought in Becker with an RBI single. Becker scored again in the third after stealing second and reaching home off a Finney RBI. The two runs turned out to be enough for the Rebels,
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Outfielder Kylan Becker runs to second base in a game against Memphis in 2017. as Jacobsen never allowed a baserunner to advance past second base. The Rebels failed to bring down the host of the tournament on the tail end of the doubleheader however, losing 4-0 to No. 2 UCLA. Mena was on third base in the third inning but was unable to score off of a bunt from Allee. UCLA scored their first run in the next inning, taking the lead. The Rebels had another opportunity to score in the fourth inning with pinch runner Kelsha Loftin in scoring position, but they couldn’t
reach home to tie the game. The Bruins scored two runs off of back-to-back errors from Ole Miss in the sixth to secure the victory. The Rebels came back on Sunday for a game against Boise State. Ole Miss’s six firstinning errors were critical in their 6-4 loss to the Broncos. The Rebels took the lead early with runs from Becker and Kaylee Horton in the first, but they lost the advantage when the Broncos scored five runs off of six errors. Ole Miss was able to cut the lead to one behind a home run
from Latham, but the Broncos extended the lead to two in the fourth inning. The Rebels are 6-3 overall in the young season after the Stacy Winsburg Memorial Tournament. Ole Miss will travel to Austin next weekend for the Texas Invitational. They’ll face Tulsa and Sam Houston State on Friday, then come back on Saturday for another game against Sam Houston State and a matchup with Texas. The Rebels will round out the weekend with a second game against the host on Sunday.
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Stevens’ big day propels Ole Miss past Missouri JARED REDDING
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Despite a late-second-half surge from Missouri, points off of turnovers made a difference and helped Ole Miss win its fourth straight game Saturday afternoon in the Pavilion. The Ole Miss men’s basketball team defeated the Missouri Tigers 75-65 in The Pavilion on Saturday to move to 18-7 overall, their best record in a 25-game stretch since the 2012-13 season. The Rebels are 8-4 in SEC play for the first time since the 201415 season. Missouri dominated the glass, out-rebounding Ole Miss 37-21, including a 13-4 edge in offensive rebounds. However, the Rebels took advantage of 25 turnovers, using them to convert 32 points throughout the game. “We couldn’t keep them off the boards, especially in the first half. A big stat for our team all year long is points off turnovers,” Ole Miss head coach Kermit Davis said. “During our fourgame winning streak, we’ve been averaging 20 points off turnovers and 10 steals. Our 1-3-1, and other defenses, converts to offense and is really the reason we won.” The Rebels had four players score double figures on Saturday. Bruce Stevens led Ole Miss with 17 points, shooting 5-for11 overall and 3-for-7 from the 3-point line. Stevens’s ability to shoot in different areas makes his team harder to defend against, according to Kermit Davis. “It just makes us more of an SEC-worthy team and a team that can play better in March
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Ole Miss guard Breein Tyree makes a layup during the game against Iowa State on Jan. 26, 2019. Iowa State won the game 87-73.
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because (Stevens) can stretch it,” Kermit Davis said. ”He gave us a good presence. There are a lot of conventional fives out there, centers, and he’s a hard matchup … .” Breein Tyree and KJ Buffen each had 14 points, while Devontae Shuler had 12. Buffen also had four rebounds, tying Terence Davis and Stevens for a team lead. “(Buffen) naturally tried to rebound. Even if he didn’t get it, he was the one guy that, if there’s a shot, he’s going,” Kermit Davis said. Ole Miss led for almost the whole game after being down 2-0 in the opening minutes. Their strong finish in the first half put them up 35-26. Coming out of the locker room, the Rebels used a 12-2 run to give them their largest lead of the game with 19 points. The Tigers didn’t go away quickly, however. A few big shots, particularly from Missouri’s Jordan Geist, cut the lead to as low as seven points. The Rebels managed to hold on like they did in their previous outing on the road at Auburn. “Confidence comes from doing hard things over and over again,” Kermit Davis said. “It lends you to the tough situations that you can play. That is what happened. When you win on the road, it breeds unbelievable confidence. Our team is playing, thinking we can win the game late.” The Rebels travel to Columbia, South Carolina on Tuesday to take on the Gamecocks. The winner will take fourth place in the SEC standings.
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Bases loaded: Ole Miss splits with Wright State Ole Miss Baseball is officially back, thanks to the season-opening split against Wright State over the weekend. Staff writer Joshua Gollihar takes a look at what to expect from the Rebels following their first series in a new column titled “Bases loaded,” which will focus on three key points, or bases, made clear each weekend.
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Rainy weather kept Rebel baseball from earning its first series win, or loss, of the season when Sunday’s game was washed away. The Horizon League team bounced back from a lopsided Friday loss to punish the Rebels for a lack of energy on Saturday. The quick introduction to this year’s edition of the Diamond Rebels offers an idea of what to expect this season. First Base: Thomas Dillard will be key to a productive Ole Miss offense. Offensively, Thomas Dillard is going to be the best of a talented lineup. The junior comes off a season during which he led the team in walks, stolen bases and home runs, and he does not seem to be slowing down. He was easily a bright spot in the Rebels’ opening weekend. He hit safely five out of six times, with two of those five hits for extra bases – a double and a no-doubt-about-it homerun on Saturday. In addition to his hits, Dillard added three walks and was successful on his one attempt to steal a base. His stature as an all-around offensive weapon still seems to ring true.
Second Base: Max Cioffi can step up in Houston Roth’s absence. Long-relief pitcher Houston Roth was in the competition to be a starter on the weekend; however, coach Mike Bianco values Roth’s ability to stabilize a game for three or four innings when the starter gets in trouble, so he decided to leave him in the bullpen. Furthermore, Roth injured his non-throwing shoulder in practice when he fell trying to cover first base. This left a vacancy in the bullpen for the foreseeable future that may be filled by Max Cioffi. Cioffi came into the game on Saturday after debut starter Zack Phillips struggled to get out of the third inning. The sophomore hurler limited Wright State to just one hit over 3.2 innings. He mixed in five strikeouts while keeping the opposition scoreless, allowing Ole Miss to rally late in the game. Cioffi offers Ole Miss a second body able to provide the same ability that Roth does. This offers flexibility in the rotation. Third Base: Will Ethridge must be consistent in Friday starter role. Friday was Will Ethridge’s first opportunity during his time at Ole Miss to be the headline
Taylor Broadway pitches against Wright State on Saturday. Wright State won the game 9-5. guy on the pitching staff. His first inning was lengthened after he committed an error trying to field a ball down the first-base line. After throwing 29 pitches in the opening frame, the junior
pitched 5.2 innings of shutout baseball. He surrendered four hits and had five strikeouts. In his first crack as a weekend starter, his improvement over the course of his outing could prove to be a valuable learning
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experience for Ethridge as he puts more starts under his belt. If this team is going to reach its predicted heights, Ethridge will need to give his best most Fridays.
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