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Ole Miss wastes Tim Elko’s 4-for-4 day, loses 4-2 at South Carolina
Tim Elko’s heroics and considered one of Ole Miss baseball’s higher pitched video games of the yr weren’t sufficient to get the Rebels a W on Friday night time.
The Rebels (21-13, 5-9 SEC) misplaced 4-2 at South Carolina on Friday, night the weekend sequence at one win apiece. Elko had a monster night time, batting 4-for-4 with two solo house runs. However the remainder of the offense solely logged two hits with no walks, squandering a stable pitching efficiency from Rebels right-handers Derek Diamond and Riley Maddox.
South Carolina starter Noah Corridor flummoxed Ole Miss hitters all day, mixing his fastball and changeup to permit two runs on six hits in 7 2/3 innings. Ole Miss hitters solely registered two three-ball counts and no walks towards Corridor, who was pinpoint all night time and held six of the primary seven hitters in Ole Miss’ lineup hitless.
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Elko was the lone shiny spot. Friday marked his first four-hit recreation of the season and continued his torrid begin to SEC play. In 14 SEC video games, Elko is 23-for-54 (.426) with 23 RBIs, 12 runs scored and eight house runs.
Diamond allowed 4 runs on 5 hits with no walks in 5 1/3 innings. Many of the injury Diamond incurred got here on a two-out three-run house run from left fielder Josiah Sightler within the third inning. The wind carried Sightler’s ball in a significant method, as Diamond celebrated and Sightler slammed his bat after contact, each visibly assuming Sightler had popped as much as finish the Gamecocks’ menace.
Freshman Riley Maddox retired all eight of the batters he confronted in aid of Diamond, inducing six groundouts with one strikeout and one flyout.
Ole Miss and South Carolina play the decisive third recreation of their three-game sequence on Saturday at 12 p.m.
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South Carolina got a boost to its secondary for the 2025 season from the MAC of all conferences, as the Gamecocks announced the signing of defensive back Myles Norwood on Thursday.
The 6-foot-1, 183-pounder from St. Louis transferred from Ball State, so next fall he’ll be taking a significant step up in competition after deciding to test his talents in the SEC.
According to On3, Norwood’s final 2 choices came down to South Carolina and Kentucky, and Norwood chose Columbia over Lexington.
The junior had 38 tackles, 22 of them solo, with 2 tackles-for-loss, 10 pass breakups and a fumble recovery for the Cardinals in 2024. According to Pro Football Focus, Norwood earned a solid coverage grade of 71.8 across 456 snaps in 12 games for Ball State. The majority of his snaps were at outside cornerback, with 48 snaps coming at the nickel position — 35 of which came in 1 game.
Kentucky has several defensive backs leaving for the NFL Draft or the transfer portal, so the Wildcats really could’ve used Norwood but instead saw him go to an SEC rival school.
Norwood should be an important piece of South Carolina’s secondary in 2025 after working his way into Ball State’s rotation quickly.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
The Gamecocks return to the transfer portal this time landing a commitment from Ball State transfer cornerback Myles Norwood, On3’s Pete Nakos reports.
Norwood is a former JUCO product that began his collegiate career at Iowa State before landing at Ball State and ultimately South Carolina. His addition to the room is needed after the Gamecocks are expected to lose players due to eligibility reasons. The 6-foot-1 and 183 pounder out of St. Louis, Missouri had five passes defensed in 2024 to go along with two forced fumbles and 38 total tackles.
Norwood is the seventh transfer addition to South Carolina following the Christmas Eve addition of Western Kentucky offensive lineman Rodney Newsom.
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