NCAA baseball tournament: Ole Miss advances with 3-2 win over Washington

June 3, 2014 admin Sports Comments Off

-778f4aa53da89d92 — Mississippi's Colby Bortles, right, is congratulated after a solo home run by teammates, from left, Sikes Orvis, Preston Overbey , and Cameron Dishon, against Washington in their NCAA college baseball regional game at Oxford-University Stadium on Monday, June 2, 2014, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Oxford Eagle, Bruce Newman)

Mississippi's Colby Bortles, right, is congratulated after a solo home run by teammates, from left, Sikes Orvis, Preston Overbey , and Cameron Dishon, against Washington in their NCAA college baseball regional game at Oxford-University Stadium on Monday, June 2, 2014, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Oxford Eagle, Bruce Newman) — Mississippi’s Colby Bortles, right, is congratulated after a solo home run by teammates, from left, Sikes Orvis, Preston Overbey , and Cameron Dishon, against Washington in their NCAA college baseball regional game at Oxford-University Stadium on Monday, June 2, 2014, in Oxford, Miss. (AP Photo/Oxford Eagle, Bruce Newman)

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Sikes Orvis hit a run-scoring triple in the top of the 10th inning to push Mississippi past Washington for a 3-2 victory in the championship game of the NCAA tournament’s Oxford Regional.

Ole Miss (44-18) will travel to top-ranked Louisiana-Lafayette, which eliminated Mississippi State 5-3 Monday night to advance to the Super Regional round this weekend.

Washington (41-17-1) threw five pitchers in the game. Alex Nesbitt (0-1) took the loss.

Ole Miss scored first when freshman Colby Bortles hit a solo homer in the second. Washington responded with a run on Branden Berry’s single in the third and then pulled ahead 2-1 on Brian Wolfe’s sacrifice fly in the fifth.

Bortles doubled home a run in the sixth to tie the game 2-2.

Scott Weathersby (2-1) earned the win for Ole Miss.