Regional super for Mississippi

This previous weekend was not only a deal with for faculty baseball followers in Mississippi. It was a deal with for anybody who’s grateful every time this state is put right into a optimistic nationwide highlight.

The one factor that will have made the weekend higher is that if the video games between Ole Miss and Southern Miss had been extra aggressive.

Since faculty baseball adopted its tremendous regional format in 1999, solely eight states have ever hosted a very in-state tremendous regional. The Ole Miss-USM conflict was the primary time it’s occurred in Mississippi.

It was an excellent scene in Hattiesburg, the place the house faculty’s Pete Taylor Park most likely might have offered 5 occasions as many tickets as its 4,300-seat capability. ESPN’s TV cameras captured great moments on the ballpark and past.

Just one group might advance to the Faculty World Sequence, although, and clearly this weekend the Rebels have been the higher group, outscoring the Golden Eagles 15-0 in back-to-back shutouts.

Baseball is a streaky recreation, and Ole Miss is on a scorching streak. The final group to make the 64-team discipline, Ole Miss has regarded pretty much as good as any of the top-seeded groups, a number of of whom have already seen their seasons finish.

The Rebels might conceivably win the nationwide championship in Omaha, a yr after Mississippi State introduced the trophy dwelling to Starkville for the primary time ever.  

That’s an end result for which even diehard Bulldogs and disenchanted Golden Eagles ought to root.