No.5 Ole Miss baseball (33-10, 11-8) was back in action after their first midweek loss of the season to Miss State in the Governors Cup at Trustmark Park in Pearl. LSU baseball (25-18, 9-10) came into Oxford off a 8-0 win over Lamar after a series sweep by South Carolina. The Thursday night match-up was the first game of a key SEC three-game series.
Ole Miss got on the board first in the bottom of the 1st with 1 run. The Tigers responded in the top of the 2nd with 1 run to tie the game at 1-1.