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Ole Miss stays hot, slugs past Arkansas to open Supers

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It didn’t take long for the Ole Miss bats to get cooking again. The Rebels scored in nearly every inning en route to a 9-7 win over Arkansas, inching closer to the program’s first-ever Women’s College World Series appearance.

Aliyah Binford’s strong postseason continued, hitting an opposite-field solo shot in the first. Ole Miss didn’t waver after Kailey Wyckoff hit a three-run home run in the bottom half of the first. Taylor Roman hit a two-out pinch-hit double off the wall to tie the game in the third.

According to head coach Courtney Deifel, Robyn Herron and Payton Burnham were dealing with food poisoning. Herron, who was clearly not herself, exited after the second inning and Burnham was unavailable. Reis Beuerlein nearly got out of the third inning unscathed but much like most of the day, Ole Miss struck with two outs. In back-to-back-to-back at-bats, Lexie Brady, Mackenzie Pickens and Ashton Lansdell hit two doubles and a home run for a four-run inning.

Ole Miss scored two more runs in the fourth, taking advantage of an error and two walks.

Arkansas had a bit of its own two-out magic. Courtney Day and Atalyia Rijo each had an RBI single in the third and fourth. Karlie Davison hit a solo home run in the fifth. However, the Razorbacks left too much on the table as they did in the regular season against Ole Miss when they stranded 20 runners in their two losses. After Davison’s homer, Arkansas loaded the bases for Day. Miali Guachino struck out the power hitter to end the threat.

The first two runners reached in the seventh but Binford responded by striking out Raigan Kramer and Bri Ellis. She walked Day and a run scored on a wild pitch. Wyckoff lifted a ball to right field, a few feet from a walk-off blast but it was caught at the wall. Arkansas left 13 runners on in the loss.

Ole Miss will try to clinch its spot in Oklahoma City on Saturday at 9 p.m. ET.

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