The No. 19 Auburn Tigers (27-10, 5-3 SEC) fell 4-1 at the hands of the Ole Miss Rebels (21-15, 2-6 SEC) in the second game of the series.
“We need to hit our pitch,” said head coach [autotag]Mickey Dean[/autotag]. “We kept going after the pitcher’s pitch. Every time we got runners on, we kept going after that drop ball and hit it to their infielders. Too many easy plays for them. Credit to the Ole Miss pitcher, she threw well. We just need to have better at-bats tomorrow.”
[autotag]Annabelle Wildra [/autotag] got the start and ended up with the loss for Auburn. She pitched 4.2 innings and allowed four runs off of seven hits, one walk and struck out four batters. [autotag]Emmah Rolfe[/autotag] threw the last 2.1 innings and only allowed one hit, one walk and struck one batter out.
Catelyn Riley pitched the whole game for Ole Miss and allowed one run off of six hits, walked two batters, and struck out four.
Auburn loaded the bases with one out but did not score any runs in the bottom of the first inning. The Tigers ended up stranding seven runners.
Paige Smith got the scoring started in the top of the second inning with a two-run homer to put the Rebels up. They never gave the lead back.
Auburn’s only run came in the bottom of the fifth inning when [autotag]Icess Tresvik[/autotag] tagged up on a fly ball to left field hit by [autotag]Aubrie Lisenby[/autotag].
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The final game of the series is set for today at 1:00 p.m. CT.
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