SEC West Foes No. 5 Arkansas, Ole Miss tangle this weekend

FAYETTEVILLE – The top team in the SEC Western Division will get a look at the bottom of it.

SEC West leader No. 5 Arkansas (32-9, 12-6 SEC) hosts Ole Miss (23-17, 6-12), the division’s bottom-dweller, in a three-game set this weekend at Baum-walker Stadium. First pitch in the opener between the Razorbacks and Rebels is set for 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 29, on SEC Network+.

Two of the three contests will broadcast on national television, including the series finale on ESPN – the only scheduled ESPN appearance for an SEC baseball game during the 2022 season. Arkansas, winners of a conference-leading 11 consecutive SEC home series, vies for its first home series win against Ole Miss since 2015 this weekend.

Schedule

6:30 p.m. Friday, April 29

vs. Ole Miss – SEC Network+

Noon Sunday, May 1 vs. Ole Miss – ESPN

Matchups

Game 1

Ole Miss RHP Dylan Delucia (3-0, 4.40 ERA) vs. Arkansas RHP Connor Noland (5-2, 2.54 ERA)

Game 2

Ole Miss LHP Hunter Elliott (1-3, 3.19 ERA) vs. Arkansas LHP Hagen Smith (6-2, 3.83 ERA)

Game 3

Ole Miss RHP Derek Diamond (3-3, 6.29 ERA) vs. Arkansas RHP Jaxon Wiggins (5-1, 5.55 ERA)

Since 1960, Arkansas is 54-49 overall against Ole Miss, including a 24-22 mark in games played in Fayetteville.

Arkansas enters this weekend seeking its first home series win against Ole Miss since 2015. The Hogs, who won last year’s series in Oxford, have won back-to-back series over the Rebels since the 2010 and 2011 seasons.

Arkansas has not sweep Ole Miss in Fayetteville since the 1999 campaign.

Series History