The college baseball season begins Friday, and Ole Miss hosts Winthrop at Swayze for the year’s first three-game weekend series. Chase Parham reports that skipper Mike Bianco is rolling with the three-man tier we’ve expected all along, Ryan Rolison on Friday, Brady Feigl on Saturday, and James McArthur on Sunday. That’s an impressive battery of strong arms, and if the Diamondsharks don’t leg out a season-opening series win — if not an outright sweep — there will be considerable hell to pay.
But, on the contrary, Winthrop manager Tom Riginos announced this week that he would be saving his ace for the series finale on Sunday and will toss his two and three pitchers respectively on Friday and Saturday.