Following an hour long weather delay in Starkville, the Rebels and Bulldogs are back underway in the bottom of the third inning.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. – Friday night's Southeastern Conference baseball game between Mississippi State and No. 14 Ole Miss has resumed. MSU leads 1-0 in the bottom of the third inning. The contest was halted officially for 1 hour, 5 minutes.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. – To close out what has been a record setting regular outdoor track and field season the Mississippi State track and field teams travel to two separate events Saturday. MSU will send its men's and women's 4×400-meter relay teams to the Jesse Owens Track Classic hosted by Ohio State University and the rest of the teams will compete at the Mississippi Open in Oxford.
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University of Kentucky basketball players Josh Harrellson and Jon Hood, along with other collegiate players, will travel with Sports Reach, to China May 14 through May 31 to compete in eight to nine games against local clubs, including the Bayi Basketball Club, traditionally one of the top teams in China.
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GAINESVILLE — The Florida Gators should play the defending national champions more often.

Showing no signs of intimidation, No. 6 Florida cruised to a 7-0 lead over No. 15 LSU on Friday before lightning delayed the game in the bottom of the fifth.

Officials called the delay at 9:40 p.m. as Florida had runners on second and third base with one out in McKethan Stadium. Tornado warnings persisted just north of Gainesville.

The Gators (28-11) exploded for nine hits in the first three innings, including a three-run homer by second baseman Josh Adams in the second. Marred by a season-long slump, Adams turned on a low fastball from Anthony Ranaudo (2-1), a pro prospect who survived just two innings.

LSU pulled Ranaudo, who gave up four earned runs, shortly after UF left fielder Tyler Thompson drove a line drive into Ranaudo’s leg in the second inning. Ranaudo appeared to be in pain but finished the inning.

Thompson is 2-for-2 with a two-RBI triple off Joey Bourgeois, who replaced Ranaudo. Catcher Mike Zunino added two hits for the Gators, and starter Alex Panteliodis (6-2) completed five innings of four-hit baseball.

Florida is 6-4 in its last 10 meetings with LSU (32-9), winner of six national titles but currently riding a four-game losing streak.

The 12th-ranked LSU Tigers scored four runs in the sixth inning to rally past the eighth-ranked Georgia softball team, 5-3, Friday in game two of a three-game series at Tiger Park.
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Tonight, the Gamecocks open up the weekend series against the Alabama Crimson Tide. Opening pitch is at 7:00. Blake Cooper and Jimmy Nelson (5-1 3.86) start.

I’m really hoping for an impressive performance this weekend. The Tide left a bad, crimson taste in my mouth during basketball season. Go ‘Cocks.

Also, let me just go ahead and say this now: I sincerely hope we don’t hear any stories about Carolina fans booing Chris Smelley.

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Wanted to do another shameless plug for my cousin. Vote for him for Division 3 Player of the year here. He plays for Johns Hopkins, is batting .480, with 14 HR’s and 58 RBI’s. Way to go Cuz!!!!

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Terrence Jones, a top 20 national prospect and a seemingly ideal player to replace the departed Patrick Patterson at Kentucky, committed to Washington on Friday. He picked the Huskies over Kentucky, Oklahoma, Oregon, UCLA and Kansas.

“I wanted to be close to home,” Jones said in an announcement made at his Portland, Ore., high school.

Jones also noted that one of his high school teammates, Terrence Ross, had earlier committed to Washington.

“Like I said since the eighth grade, I wanted to play with Terrence Ross,” Jones said.

Having lost star freshmen John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins as well as Patterson to this year’s NBA Draft, Kentucky had already got commitments from big man Enes Kanter and highly-regarded point guard Brandon Knight. The Cats also got commitments from wings Doron Lamb and Stacey Poole, Jr.

Several analysts put Jones’ announcement in the context of UK Coach John Calipari’s eye-opening streak of recruiting good fortune having to end sometime.
“Not everything is going to go according to plan every year,” Dave Telep of Scout.com said. “There are other people recruiting guys.”
Clark Francis of the Hoop Scoop echoed that sentiment in assessing the loss of C.J. Leslie to North Carolina State and then Jones in the last week.
“You’ve gotten everybody you were supposed to get,” he said of Kentucky’s recruiting haul since Calipari became coach. “The law of averages catches up to you at some point.  Every beautiful girl you want to go out with isn’t going to go out with you.
“The more important question is what’s Plan B.”
Kentucky had no realistic hope of adding a player similar to Jones this recruiting year, the analysts said.
“Maybe Kentucky would go with a smaller lineup with (Enes) Kanter,” Francis said.
But even without Jones, Kentucky would be a capable team next season, said Brick Oettinger, a recruiting analyst for Prep Stars.
“It’s not like it would be a team lacking in talent,” he said. “You don’t have the obvious replacement for (Patrick) Patterson. I wouldn’t call it a hole in the lineup. But certainly the lineup would not be as strong as it could have been.”

Ole Miss senior catcher Scott Haltom took a flip camera on the Rebels' recent trip to South Carolina to provide his own personal documentary for OleMissSports.com.
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