Rebel Roundabout: All-time Ole Miss baseball great Jacob Gonzalez earns MiLB promotion
All-time Ole Miss baseball greats Jacob Gonzalez and Tim Elko have been reunited as teammates once more.
Both former Rebels are now members of the Chicago White Sox organization. Gonzalez, on Monday, was promoted to AA Birmingham. He was hitting .273 at Winston-Salem, including three home runs and 15 RBI. He had a .364 OBP and seven doubles. Gonzalez opened with a 161 wRC+ through the Dash’s first 10 games.
Gonzalez was a first-round MLB Draft selection (No. 15 overall) of the Sox last summer. Each was an integral contributor to the Rebels’ first-ever national championship in the summer of 2022. Ole Miss won 10 of 11 NCAA Tournament games as the last team named to the field.
Gonzalez, a left-handed-hitting shortstop, had a .319 average and .988 OPS over three seasons in Oxford.
He clubbed 40 home runs and finished with 158 RBI. He walked (123) more than he struck out (94).
Gonzalez was at his best as an Ole Miss sophomore. He mostly hit second or third and tallied a career-high 18 home runs. He led the Rebels in runs (73), walks (50) and triples (3). Gonzalez was 3 for 4 with a home run, two RBI and two runs scored in the second of a two-game sweep of Oklahoma in the College World Series finals.
It was Elko who famously said, ‘Don’t let the Rebs get hot,’ which became their postseason rallying cry. He was a three-time Ole Miss captain. He’s hitting .264 with three homers, eight doubles and 11 RBI for the Barons.
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OLE MISS WOMEN’S GOLF SEASON COMES TO AN END
Ole Miss women’s golf saw its season come to an end Sunday in the 2024 NCAA Championships in Carlsbad, California.
The Rebels finished last of 30 teams. Only the Top 15 made the cut. Ole Miss posted a 33-over third round to finish with an overall scorecard of 917 (+53).
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Sophie Linder entered the day on the cusp of qualifying for individual championship competition. However, she shot 8-over to fall one stroke short. Linder had a weekend score of 221 (+5) and finished tied for 41st.
OLE MISS’ NIKOLA SLAVIC HEADS TO 2024 NCAA SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP
Ole Miss men’s tennis senior Nikola Slavic will participate in the 2024 NCAA Individual Championships in Stillwater, Oklahoma from May 20-25.
Slavic received an at-large bid and will be making his third career singles appearance in the postseason. He’ll first match up with UT Arlington’s Joan Torres Espinosa on Monday at 3:30 p.m. CT.
Slavic was 19-8 in singles over his fifth and final Ole Miss season. He was 14-6 in duals and led the Rebels in ranked singles wins (4). He had three ranked doubles victories and was named All-SEC (first team) for the fourth consecutive year.
Slavic capped the year ranked No. 45 nationally.
