FROM CBB NEWS SOURCES
Game 1: Mississippi State 6 Kentucky 5
Game 2: Kentucky 13 Mississippi State 4
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Mississippi State and Kentucky split a Southeastern Conference baseball doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Cliff Hagan Stadium on the UK campus. The Bulldogs rallied from a four-run deficit to take a 6-5 victory in the opener. The Wildcats cruised to a 13-4 victory in the second game. The two teams play the rubber game of the weekend three games series at noon CT Sunday.
MSU saw a three-game win streak snapped in the second game. The Bulldogs are now 14-16 overall and 3-8 in conference play. Kentucky, who lost at home in for the first time this year Saturday, is now 24-5 and 6-5. The 10th-ranked Wildcats are now 19-1 at home this season.
Game 1: Ole Miss 7 Vanderbilt 6
OXFORD, Miss. – Jeremy Travis went 3-for-4 with three RBI and a home run as the Rebels used the long ball to keep pace with the Commodores before shifting to small ball as No. 23 Ole Miss (18-11, 5-5 SEC) rallied to claim a 7-6 win over No. 6 Vanderbilt (19-8, 5-4 SEC) in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday.
Travis led the offense as he went notched three hits with his only out coming on a check swing foul fly to first in the seventh. Matt Smith went 2-for-3 with a home run, while Zach Miller went 2-for-3 with two runs scored.
Ole Miss Recap
Vanderbilt Recap
Game 2: Ole Miss 8 Vanderbilt 0
OXFORD, Miss. – Drew Pomeranz worked a career-long 7.0 scoreless innings as he struck out seven and walked only two to help push No. 23 Ole Miss (19-11, 6-5 SEC) to an 8-0 win over No. 6 Vanderbilt (19-9, 5-5 SEC) in the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday.
The shutout was the first for the Rebels on the year and first over an SEC foe since Ole Miss picked up a 5-0 win over Arkansas in the regular-season finale in 2007.
Ole Miss Recap
Vanderbilt Recap
Game 1: Georgia 1 South Carolina 0
Game 2: Georgia 5 South Carolina 3
ATHENS—-Georgia swept a doubleheader from ninth-ranked South Carolina Saturday, winning a 1-0 thriller and then a 5-3 comeback in front of a Foley Field crowd of 3,430.
With the pair of wins, the Bulldogs (19-10, 8-3) moved into first place in the SEC Eastern Division while the Gamecocks dropped to 20-9 overall, 6-5 in the SEC. Georgia’s bullpen has not allowed an earned run in its past nine SEC games. On Saturday, they tossed four more scoreless innings bringing that total to 29.1 innings.
Game one featured a pitcher’s duel between Georgia’s Trevor Holder and USC’s Mike Cisco. Holder matched his career-high by tossing seven scoreless innings and scattered five hits against the potent Gamecock lineup. In the eighth, Georgia turned to sophomore left-hander Justin Earls. USC threatened with two outs, putting runners at the corners but Earls got Phil Disher to pop up to him to keep it 0-0. Georgia got a leadoff double from sophomore Rich Poythress, but Cisco pitched out of trouble as he left him stranded at third to send it to the ninth.
Georgia Recap
South Carolina Game 1 Recap
South Carolina Game 2 Recap
Game 1: Tennessee 5 Florida 4
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee received key performances from three Florida natives Saturday as the Volunteers baseball team won the first game of their weekend series with Florida 5-4 at Robert M. Lindsay Field at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. The Big Orange improved to 18-10 (6-4 SEC) on the year and ran their home record to 14-2.
Miami, Fla., native Nick Hernandez made his first career series-opening start in Southeastern Conference play, and the sophomore matched his career-high by pitching 7 1/3 innings in which he tallied a career-high 11 strikeouts while holding the Gators (20-9, 7-3 SEC) to two runs on seven hits.
Hernandez (1-1) picked up the win—his first of the season—after earning four straight no-decisions.
Fellow Sunshine State natives Danny Wiltz and Shawn Griffin also played key roles in the victory. Wiltz, a junior from Miami, Fla., pitched 1 2/3 innings of relief while logging his third save of the year. And senior Shawn Griffin, an outfielder from Hollywood, Fla., jumpstarted the Tennessee offense with a mammoth two-run homer in the sixth inning.
Game 2: Tennessee 10 Florida 5 (Suspended Bottom of 6th)
With Tennessee holding a 10-5 lead over No. 13 Florida in the sixth inning, heavy rains and a lengthy delay on Saturday forced the contest to be suspended. The teams will pick up the action at noon on Sunday, with a seven-inning game to follow 30 minutes after. The Vols had already nipped UF in the opener at Lindsey Nelson Stadium, 5-4. Having trailed 5-0 at one point, UT sent 11 batters to the plate in the fifth and plated eight unearned runs to turn a four-run deficit into an four-run advantage.
Game 1: LSU 3 Alabama 0
BATON ROUGE — LSU blanked Alabama 3-0, Saturday, in the first game of an SEC series behind strong pitching from Jared Bradford. The shutout was the first suffered by the Crimson Tide (16-14, 4-6 SEC) this season.
Game 1 of the series started on Friday night, but was called after three innings due to severe thunderstorms in the Baton Rouge area. The game resumed at 1 p.m. CT Saturday.
Game 2: Alabama 6 LSU 5 (10 innings)
In a back-and-forth game that had almost as many walks as hits, Alabama out-lasted LSU, 6-5, in 11 innings to earn a split of a Southeastern Conference double header Saturday night at Alex Box Stadium.
Junior outfielder Tyler Odle’s safety squeeze bunt scored junior center fielder Alex Kubal with the winning run in the top of the 11th inning off losing pitcher Daniel Bradshaw, who allowed one run and three hits in four innings of relief.
Kubal stroked a one-out single to center and moved to third on freshman shortstop Josh Rutledge’s hit-and-run single through the right side of the infield then dropped the sacrifice bunt to score Kubal with the winning run.
Alabama Recap
LSU Recap
Arkansas 5 Auburn 4
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Behind seven strong innings by Justin Wells, the University of Arkansas Razorback baseball team earned a hard-fought 5-4 win over the Auburn Tigers on Saturday afternoon at Baum Stadium.
Wells gave up six hits and four runs over his seven innings of work in what was the first start of his career as a Razorback. The win improves the Razorbacks to 17-12 on the year and 3-7 in Southeastern Conference action while Auburn falls to 19-12 and 5-6 in the league.
“We played solid all around,” Arkansas head coach Dave Van Horn said. “I thought we pitched a solid game and it was a good win for us overall. We didn’t have some things go our way, but we stayed confident in the dugout and confident on the field and it turned out good for us in the long run.”
