Last weekend wasn’t great, but Ole Miss managed to find itself in the list of 20 potential regional host sites this week ahead of its series with the Vanderbilt Commodores at Swayze Field.
Gunnar Hoglund is done for the year with a torn UCL, so Doug Nikhazy is back on Friday nights for the foreseeable future. Derek Diamond will take the ball on Saturday with Drew McDaniel going on Sunday. And, boy, they’ve got a challenge this weekend in their pitching counterparts.
Kumar Rocker and Jack Leiter, two arms that will almost certainly be taken in the first round of this summer’s MLB draft, will take the ball on Friday and Saturday respectively for the Dores in what will likely be the best one-two tandem the Rebel bats have faced on a weekend this season.