South Carolina-Ole Miss baseball series: How to watch, game details
No. 18 South Carolina is set to face No. 7 Ole Miss in its first SEC road series of the season:
▪ What: South Carolina (20-2, 3-0) vs. Ole Miss (20-2, 2-1)
▪ When: Game 1 at 7:30 p.m. Thursday; Game 2 at 7:30 p.m. Friday; Game 3 at 3 p.m. Saturday
▪ Where: Swayze Field (Oxford, Miss.)
▪ Radio: 1320 AM Friday and 107.5 FM Thursday and Saturday
▪ Watch: SEC Network Plus (digital) on Thursday and Friday. Saturday’s game will be televised on the SEC Network.
PROBABLE PITCHERS
▪ Game 1: USC, Clarke Schmidt (So. RHP 5-0, 1.27 ERA, 35 1/3 IP, 6 BB, 43 Ks vs. OM, Brady Bramlett (Jr. RHP 4-0, 2.03 ERA, 26 2/3 IP, 7 BB, 39 Ks)
▪ Game 2: USC, Braden Webb (Fr. RHP 4-1, 1.71 ERA, 26 1/3 IP, 17 BB, 28 Ks) vs. OM, Chad Smith (Jr. RHP 2-1, 3.91 ERA, 25 1/3 IP, 13 BB, 22 Ks)
▪ Game 3: USC, Adam Hill (Fr. RHP 4-0, 2.42 ERA, 22 1/3 IP, 4 BB, 37 Ks vs. OM, Sean Johnson (Jr. RHP 3-0, 1.96 ERA, 23 IP, 9 BB, 13 Ks)
PROJECTED STARTING LINEUPS
SOUTH CAROLINA
CF Gene Cone (.304 BA, 2 2Bs, 7 RBIs, .388 OBP)
1B LT Tolbert (.295 BA, 5 2Bs, 1 HR, 9 RBIs, .364 OBP)
DH John Jones (.422 BA, 4 2Bs, 6 HRs, 31 RBIs, .515 OBP)
LF Alex Destino (.364 BA, 3 2B, 4 HRs, 22 RBIs, .417 OBP)
RF Dom Thompson-Williams (.395 BA, 6 2Bs, 2 3Bs, 4 HRs, 20 RBIs, .505 OBP)
3B Jonah Bride (.263 BA, 3 2Bs, 9 RBIs, .408 OBP)
C Chris Cullen (.291 BA, 4 2Bs, 13 RBIs, .359 OBP)
2B DC Arendas (.255 BA, 4 2Bs, 1 HR, 9 RBIs, .381 OBP)
SS Marcus Mooney (.313 BA, 5 2Bs, 1 HR, 13 RBIs, .439 OBP)
OLE MISS
SS Errol Robinson (.229 BA, 2 2B, 1 3B, 1 HR, 12 RBIs, .330 OBP)
1B Will Golsan (.284 BA, 7 2Bs, 2 HRs, 15 RBIs, .392 OBP)
CF J.B. Woodman (.325 BA, 7 2Bs, 4 HRs, 21 RBIs, .412 OBP)
3B Colby Bortles (.329 BA, 9 2Bs, 3 HRs, 19 RBIs, .473 OBP)
2B Tate Blackman (.347 BA, 6 2Bs, 2 HRs, 21 RBIs, .438 OBP)
C Henri Lartique (.339 BA, 3 2Bs, 1 HR, 9 RBIs, .426 OBP)
DH Holt Perdzock (.297 BA, 2 2Bs, 10 RBIs, .422 OBP)
RF Ryan Olenek (.293 BA, 1 2Bs, 1 HR, 10 RBIs, .326 OBP)
LF Connor Cloyd (.276 BA, 5 RBIs, .462 OBP)
SERIES NOTES
▪ South Carolina leads the series with Ole Miss 32-22 and beat the Rebels two of three games in 2014 in Columbia.
▪ This is USC’s first trip to Oxford since 2011. The Rebels won two of three games the last time the two teams met at Ole Miss.
▪ Both teams enter the series ranked nationally in every poll. Ole Miss is a consensus top 10 team.
This story was originally published March 23, 2016 at 4:51 PM with the headline "South Carolina-Ole Miss baseball series: How to watch, game details."