Tuesday, June 10, 2014
The Daily
Mississippian
Vol. 102, No. 139
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Ticket punched With their win over the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns Monday, the Rebels secured a spot in the College World Series in Omaha for the first time since 1972.
Josh Laxer reacts at the end of the super regional game against Louisiana-Lafayette Monday. Ole Miss won 10-4.
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Ole Miss finally got the postseason monkey off their backs and advance to Omaha for the first time in 42 years with a 10-4 win over Louisiana-Lafayette. “I’m so proud of our guys as was noted last night,” Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco said. “As I told my guys, the road to Omaha is windy and bumpy and to be honest with you, I did not think it would take this long. When you go, you got to have a
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special group and this group is certainly all of that. When we got them together in August, you started to see that.” The score says Ole Miss won by six runs, but the game was a lot closer than the scoreboard said. Louisiana-Lafayette scored the first run of the game in the third inning with a sacrifice fly to take the lead 1-0. In the fourth inning, senior Austin Anderson put the Rebels on the board with a tworun homer to give the Rebels
the 2-1 lead. Junior Sikes Orvis would follow up two batters later with a solo homer to extend the lead to 3-1. “Obviously I think it’s a pretty big moment,” Anderson said on his home run. “In the first two innings, we didn’t do much offensively and then in the third Boz (Austin Bousfield) getting on. I was just trying to move him and I got a pitch that was elevated and I put a good swing on it. Watching it go over was a great feeling obviously, but it was a big momentum swing
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because we went from losing to winning and the momentum shifted.” Louisiana-Lafayette would tie the game in the bottom of the fourth with a ground out and an RBI double. The Rebels would add two more runs, one in the fifth and one in the sixth to take the 5-3 lead. One of the big plays in the game cam from freshman shortstop Errol Robinson and senior catcher Will Allen. Seth Harrison of Louisiana-Lafay-
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ette hit a double down left field to score one run, but the second runner was tagged out at home by Allen covering home and securing the ball after a perfect relay throw from Robinson to maintain a 5-4 lead. “We saw the ball go down the line, kind of a similar play as last night,” Allen said. “Braxton (Lee) being as quick as he is getting to the ball and just getting it in. It was a tremendous job by Errol (Robinson) just giving me the opportunity to get a tag See BASEBALL, PAGE 8
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