A hot Tennessee baseball team ran into an even hotter Ole Miss squad Friday night inside Lindsey Nelson Stadium.
The No. 24 Rebels halted a five-game winning streak by the Volunteers with a 7-4 downing before a crowd of 7,065. Ole Miss has now won seven straight contests and nine of its past 10, improving to 28-11 overall and to 9-7 in Southeastern Conference play.
Tennessee, which was looking to build off last weekend’s sweep of Mississippi State in Starkville, dropped to 25-13 and to 7-9 within the league.
“We just keep going as a team,” Vols second baseman Jay Abernathy said in a press conference. “There’s not much that needs to be said or done going into these next two days but compete.”
Abernathy’s two-run homer to right field in the seventh inning pulled Tennessee within 7-4, but the Vols went down in order during both the eighth and ninth. Abernathy and Henry Ford each had two hits in the series opener, but the rest of the Vols combined for only three hits.