Brayden Randle muscled a ball to right center in the bottom of the ninth inning, scoring Brett Moseley as Ole Miss (4-0) defeated Arkansas State (3-1) 7-6 Tuesday night at Swayze Field.
Austin Fawley went 3 for 5 with a run scored, while Tristan Bissetta, Collin Reuter and Hayden Federico each had two hits.
Right-hander Owen Kelly took the ball in his first start as a Rebel and tossed three innings, fanning three batters.
Ole Miss would draw first blood in the bottom of the first as Will Furniss reached on an error, scoring Judd Utermark. Arkansas State answered with three of its own in the third.
The Rebels responded with a pair of runs in the third. After a Furniss walk, Bissetta singled down the right field line, advancing Furniss to third. A wild pitch to Reuter scored Furniss and get Bissetta into scoring position at second. Reuter tacked another single to left, plating Bissetta to tie things at 3-3.
The Red Wolves plated three more in the fifth. Collin Reuter blasted his first homer of the season over the left field wall as Arkansas State led 6-4 after five complete.
Ole Miss rallied with one run in the seventh and one in the eighth to tie the game 6-6 headed to the ninth.
The relief duo of JP Robertson and Landon Koenig threw 4 1/3 innings of scoreless baseball with eight punchouts. The appearance marked the first for Robertson as a Rebel.
The big bat of the night in Reuter drew a leadoff walk to start the ninth and was pinch run for by Brett Moseley. A seeing-eye single from Austin Fawley through the second base hole advanced Moseley to third, bringing up Brayden Randle. Randle delivered the game-winning sac fly, plating Moseley.
Koenig got the win in relief for Ole Miss, as Arkansas State’s Andrew Allen suffered the loss.
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