Ole Miss baseball (42-15) opened the tourney with the Auburn Tigers (39-19) who beat Kentucky in the opening round on Tuesday. The Rebels were coming into the tourney off their final series win over Bama and a SEC West division title. The Rebels were also bringing a series sweep of Auburn into the SEC Tourney as well. However, the No.2 seed Rebels couldn’t make it four in a row over the Tigers.
The Rebels jumped on the board early with two runs in the bottom of 3rd as a result of a throwing error by the Tigers.