On Deck | Ole Miss

STATE FARM COLLEGE BASEBALL SHOWDOWN

Game 2

Texas Tech vs. Ole Miss

WHEN: 3 p.m. Sunday
WHERE: Globe Life Field | Arlington
RECORDS: Texas Tech 0-1, Ole Miss 1-0
LAST MEETING/SERIES: The teams have split their two meetings, with the Rebels knocking the Red Raiders out of the 2014 College World Series with a 2-1 decision and Tech claiming a 5-1 win at Minute Maid Park in 2017.
RANKINGS: Texas Tech – No. 4 DIBaseball.com/No. 4 USA Today (coaches); Arkansas – No. 6/No. 5
LOCAL RADIO: Double T 97.3 FM (Streaming within 100 miles of Lubbock)
STREAMED RADIO: TuneIn
TV: None
LIVESTREAM: FloBaseball.tv (💲)
INTERNET: RedRaiderDugout.com
TWITTER: @RandyRosetta, @RedRaiderDugout, @KeithBPatrick

PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS
Texas Tech – RH Micah Dallas (2020: 1-0, 3 saves, 15.2 IP, 23 SO/1 BB, 0.57 ERA)
Ole Miss – RH Gunnar Hoglund (2020: 3-0, 1.16 ERA, 37 SO/4 BB, 23.1 IP, 14.3 K per 9 IP)

LINEUP LEADERS
Texas Tech
LF Dru Baker: 2-for-3, R, 2B, SB
IF Cal Conley: 2-for-5, R, 3 RBIs
C Braxton Fulford: 1-for-4, HR, 3 RBIs

Ole Miss
2B Peyton Chatagnier: 2-for-5, 2B, 3 RBIs
DH Ben Van Cleave: 2-for-3, R, 2B, 2 RBIs
C Hayden Dunhurst: 2-for-4, 2 R, RBI

UP NEXT
Texas Tech vs. Mississippi State, 11 a.m. Monday
Ole Miss vs. Texas, 2:30 p.m. Monday

AROUND THE HORN

• Conley was doubtful coming into the weekend but got the start in the opener at third base, his first career start at the hot corner. He drove in 3 runs for the fourth time in his 9-game career.
• Dallas will make his first start since the 2019 CWS, a 3-inning stint against Michigan when he allowed 4 runs on 6 hits. Used only out of the bullpen last season, he was nicked for only one run in 15.2 innings and surrendered more than 2 hits in only one appearance.
• Fulford’s 3-run homer Saturday was the 5^th of his career and three have been in a season opener.
• Saturday’s loss was just the fifth loss in a season-opening weekend in Tim Tadlock’s 9 seasons and the first setback in the season opener since Tech fell to Indiana 1-0 in 2014.
• Hoglund was a 1^st-round pick in the 2018 MLB Draft and has lived up to that reputation since. Last season he started the Sunday game in every weekend series, never walked more than two hitters in an outing and finished in the top five among SEC hurlers in five major statistical categories (1^st in strikeouts, 1^st in SO-BB ratio, 2^nd in BB per 9 IP, 3^rd in SO per 9 IP and 4^th in ERA).

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