University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
Southern Miss Loses To Ole Miss, 7-2
3/19/2002 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Southern Miss Loses To Ole Miss, 7-2
OXFORD, Miss. -- Southern Miss managed nine hits off six different Rebel pitchers at Swayze Field here Tuesday night, but stranded 12 baserunners en route to dropping a 7-2 decision to Ole Miss.
The loss dropped Head Coach Corky Palmer's team to 14-6, while Ole Miss improved to 14-6. Southern Miss plays at UNO Wednesday night in a makeup game from a Feb. 26 game that was postponed by inclement weather. Following that Wednesday game, the Golden Eagles host Cincinnati for a three-game Conference USA series that opens with a 6:30 Friday night game.
Daniel Stewart started for the Eagles, went seven innings and was charged with the loss, dropping his record to 1-2. Pete Montrenes went only two innings for the Rebels but picked up his fifth victory of the season, against a single loss. Brent Leach threw the final inning for the Eagles and did not give up a hit, while five Rebel pitchers followed Montrenes to the mound. Stewart fanned eight and walked only two, while Ole Miss pitchers accounted for a dozen strikeouts and walked only three.
Southern Miss saw a harbinger of things to come in the top of the first inning when the Eagles' leading hitter, Jeff Cook, doubled down the left field line, Clint Stoy reached base when he was hit by a pitch and Griff Israel loaded the bases when he reached on a Rebel error. However, Jarrett Hoffpauir struck out to end the threat, stranding three runners.
The Eagles then proceeded to leave runners on base in every inning except the sixth.
Ole Miss got all the runs the Rebels would need with a four-run outburst in the bottom of the first inning. In that frame, Ole Miss picked up five hits, four singles and a double, and used a walk and a fielder's choice to score the four runs.
The Golden Eagles responded with a pair of runs in the top of the second when Matt Benson singled, Carlos Valasquez was hit by a pitch, and Allen Winningham doubled to left to score both Benson and Valasquez. That would be all the runs the Eagles would score though, and Ole Miss quickly got those back with two runs in the bottom of the third and a single run in the fourth.
Neither team scored after that fourth-inning Rebel tally.
Of the Eagles' nine hits, Israel and Hoffpauir had two each, and Southern Miss hitters accounted for four doubles, one each by Valasquez, Israel, Hoffpauir and Cook. Ole Miss' Drew Rogers had the only home run of the game, a two-run shot in the third inning.
