Poll Position: Ole Miss slides down after dropping opening SEC series
The first weekend of Southeastern Conference play appeared to be going Ole Miss’ way, needing one last out to take series from Arkansas.
After rallying back from a seven-run deficit to take the lead in the eighth inning the Razorbacks took advantage of an error and scored four runs to claim a 12-9 victory in the rubber match on Sunday.
The Rebels (15-4, 1-2 SEC) went went from having a solid beginning to conference season to another heartbreaking defeat against one of the top teams in the country it went back and forth with on Friday and Sunday.
“We just weren’t good enough,” Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco said after Sunday’s loss. “This is what happens in the SEC. We’ve got nine weeks of this to come and you have to play good baseball or you don’t win. We squandered some opportunities.
“We couldn’t get off the field on the mound and we didn’t make enough plays in the field to win the game against a good team.”
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There are still nine more weekends to go in SEC play and a chance to get back on track starts this weekend at Missouri (8-11, 0-3) but Monday saw Ole Miss take a slide backwards in the polls.
A 1-3 week, including last Tuesday’s 14-5 loss at South Alabama, put a dent in the Rebels strong start to the season.
In D1Baseball’s latest poll Ole Miss dropped five spots to No. 18 and in Baseball America’s new Top 25 rankings it fell four spots to No. 19.
Before the Rebels get another crack at a SEC opponent on Friday in Columbia, Missouri, they head to Pearl on Tuesday for a rematch against Southern Mississippi (14-6) which moved up three spots to No. 19 in D1Baseball’s rankings. First pitch at Trustmark Park is set for 6 p.m. CT.
Below is the complete D1Baseball Top 25 rankings:
- Tennessee (20-0)
- LSU (20-1)
- Arkansas (18-2)
- Georgia (21-2)
- Florida State (18-1)
- Oregon State (15-3)
- Clemson (19-2)
- Texas (17-1)
- Oregon (17-4)
- Oklahoma (17-2)
- Wake Forest (18-3)
- Alabama (20-1)
- Florida (16-5)
- Stanford (15-3)
- Dallas Baptist (14-5)
- Louisville (16-3)
- North Carolina (16-4)
- Ole Miss (15-4)
- Southern Mississippi (14-6)
- Auburn (16-4)
- UC Santa Barbara (15-4)
- Vanderbilt (15-5)
- Virginia (12-6)
- Coastal Carolina (15-5)
- Troy (15-5)
