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Tanner Houck
1
Mizzou MIZ 27-13, 8-9 SEC
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Winner Ole Miss OM 24-15, 8-9 SEC
Mizzou MIZ
27-13, 8-9 SEC
1
Final
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Ole Miss OM
24-15, 8-9 SEC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Mizzou MIZ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0
Ole Miss OM 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 X 3 5 0

W: Ryan Rolison (5-2) L: Houck, Tanner (3-6) S: Dallas Woolfolk (8)

Game Recap: Baseball |

@MizzouBaseball Drops Middle Game at Ole Miss

Tiger bats again quiet with RHP Tanner Houck on the mound; Harris notches 12th homer of the season

OXFORD, Miss. – Mizzou Baseball dropped the middle game of a three-game series at Ole Miss, 3-1, on Saturday afternoon (April 22) at Swayze Field. Mizzou junior RHP Tanner Houck (Collinsville, Ill.) was very good again on Saturday, tossing 8.0 innings, allowing just three runs on five hits with seven strikeouts. But Ole Miss' pitching staff limited Mizzou to just three hits on Saturday as a solo homer from junior RF Trey Harris (Powder Springs, Ga.) supplied all the scoring for Mizzou. Harris is now third in the SEC with his 12 homers, the most by a Mizzou player since Aaron Senne hit 22 in 2010.

Mizzou falls to 27-13 on the year and 8-9 in SEC play while Ole Miss moves to 24-15 and 8-9 in SEC play. The rubber game of the pivotal three-game series will be played Sunday at 1:30 p.m. Houck took the loss, falling to 3-6 on the year, while Ryan Rolison earned the win, going 6.0 innings and allowing just one hit with nine strikeouts. He did walk five but moved to 5-2 on the year. Dallas Woolfolk earned his eighth save, but Mizzou made it interesting, bringing the winning run to the plate twice.

After Mizzou stranded a pair in the first, Houck struggled with his command in the first, issuing a walk and hitting two batters. An RBI groundout to first scored a run as Ole Miss gained a 1-0 lead after the first. Freshman SS Chris Cornelius (St. Louis, Mo.) made a great play on what looked to be a two-run single up the middle to end the frame.

Houck settled in from there, tallying a pair of strikeouts in the second during a 1-2-3 frame. He then threw up another zero as Ole Miss went three-up, three-down in the third. Ole Miss' Ryan Olenek led off the fourth inning with a double, but Houck pitched around that as he continued to look sharp.

Cornelius tallied Mizzou's first hit with a single through the left side with one out in the top of the fifth, but Mizzou didn't score. Ole Miss then put together a two-out rally in its half of the fifth inning. Will Golsan tallied a two-out single after a Tate Blackman walk and Blackman took third while Golsan moved to second on the throw. With two runners in scoring position, 3B Colby Bortles came up and hit a bouncing ball up the middle for a two-run single to extend the Ole Miss lead to 3-0.

Junior C Brett Bond (St. Louis, Mo.) drew a two-out walk in the sixth, but Ole Miss' pitching staff retired the next seven Mizzou batters, taking a 3-0 lead into the ninth inning. Woolfolk took over from there and Harris launched his team-leading 12th homer of the year to get Mizzou on the board with no outs in the ninth. Bond then hit a double off the wall in right and Nelson Mompierre (Miami, Fla.) drew a walk to bring the winning run to the plate. But Woolfolk got the last two men to cap off his eighth save.

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Potent Quotables
Head Coach Steve Bieser

Opening statement…
"Well it was a game that neither team really wanted to hit it seemed like today. That was our outcome – we decided a little too late to kick it in and be an offensive person. Give their guy credit. We let him off the hook in the first few innings when he had serious command issues. We just didn't take advantage of it there. They did what they needed to do."  

Postgame Notes

  • Ole Miss now leads the all-time series with Mizzou, 9-8.
  • Mizzou is now 8-9 in SEC and 5-3 vs. SEC West teams.
  • Mizzou falls to 14-9 in three-game series this season
  • Sophomore OF Connor Brumfield had a streak of 24 consecutive games reaching base safely snapped on Saturday.
  • Junior RHP Tanner Houck pitched through 6.0 innings of the 34th time in 40 career starts, through 7.0 innings for the 21st time and through 8.0 for the 11th time.
  • Houck turned in his 30th career quality start in 40 tries.  
  • Houck has gone 8.0 innings in each of his last three starts, not earning a win in any of those starts.
  • Trey Harris hit his team-leading 12th homer of the year. Those are tied for third in the SEC and are the most for a Mizzou player since Aaron Senne had 22 in 2010.
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