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South Carolina-Ole Miss baseball series: How to watch, game details

Chad Holbrook’s club plays its first SEC road series this weekend.
Chad Holbrook’s club plays its first SEC road series this weekend. jblake@thestate.com

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."

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