Rebel Roundabout: Ole Miss officially welcomes Sadler; Linder chasing individual title
Colorado transfer guard Tameiya Sadler committed to Ole Miss women’s basketball on Friday.
The Rebels officially announced the addition two days later.
Sadler transfers to Ole Miss after three seasons at Colorado and a freshman year at Washington. She averaged 5.2 points per game with the Buffalos, including 5.5 per game a year ago.
Colorado reached the Sweet 16 for the second straight season. Sadler appeared in all 34 games with 10 starts.
“The addition of Tameiya on our roster was integral,” Ole Miss head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin said in a statement. “She’s dynamic and fits perfectly in our system. We’re excited to welcome Tam, and we know that the Oxford community will embrace her right away.”
Sadler is the fourth transfer addition for the Rebels this off-season.
The others are Michigan State guard DeeDee Hagemann, Arkansas Pine-Bluff forward Staff Jacobs and UCLA forward Christeen Iwuala.
Ole Miss returns eight, including Madison Scott, KK Deans and Kennedy Todd-Williams, from a team that last season appeared in the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive postseason. The Rebels also signed two freshmen in Heloisa Carerra and Sira Thienou.
OLE MISS SOFTBALL’S SEASON COMES TO AN END IN LAFAYETTE REGIONAL
Ole Miss softball was riding high into the Lafayette Regional.
The Rebels had won five of their last seven games in the regular season. They were in the NCAA Tournament for the eighth postseason in a row and felt they were playing their best at the right time.
But their postseason stay was as short as possible.
The three-seed Rebels were swept in both their games to abruptly end their season. The last was a 4-2 loss to four-seed Princeton in the regional’s first elimination game on Saturday.
Ole Miss (31-27, 7-17 SEC) struggled to get its offense going early, while Princeton used a three-run fifth inning to seize full control. Princeton starter Cassidy Shaw struck out eight Rebels in her five innings. Brielle Wright secured her 10th save.
Ole Miss starter Catelyn Riley was strong in holding the Tigers scoreless and to two hits over four innings. Ole Miss scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the sixth, highlighted by a ground-rule double from Paige Smith. Smith started 261 games in a Rebel uniform, the most by any player in Ole Miss history.
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— Ole Miss Women’s Golf (@OleMissWGolf) May 19, 2024
OLE MISS’ LINDER TOP 10 INDIVIDUALLY AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
Ole Miss women’s golf is sitting at No. 24 out of 30 possible teams after two days at the 2024 NCAA Championships.
Things are going much more swimmingly for Rebel freshman Sophie Linder.
Linder tallied a round-two score of 73 (+1) on Saturday, which brought her cumulative total for the weekend to -3. She’s in a tie for seventh heading into the final round on Sunday.
Linder has made a team-high eight birdies, as well as 23 pars, in her first go at the postseason. Ole Miss is unlikely to make the 15-team cut, but Linder could still play into Monday and win the NCAA individual championship by placing as one of the Top 9 athletes from non-advancing teams.
The Rebels tee off again for the tournament’s final round at 2:55 CT in Carlsbad, California.
