OXFORD — Senior Miranda Strother’s single with the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning lifted the No. 20 Ole Miss softball team to a 2-1 victory against Jacksonville State on Wednesday afternoon at the Ole Miss Softball Complex.
After both teams traded runs in the first three frames, Ole Miss right-hander Kaitlin Lee and Jacksonville State’s Whitney Gillespie settled in with three scoreless innings. The Rebels (32-16) loaded the bases in the seventh thanks to three singles before Strother’s infield chopper to shortstop secured the team’s seventh walk-off of the season.
Lee, in her 25th start of the year, worked her 15th complete game. She allowed six hits and struck out three.
Gillespie (16-4) walked four and allowed 10 hits in 6 1/3 innings.
Sophomore Kylan Becker went 3-for-4 for her 17th multi-hit game. Junior Paige McKinney was 2-for-3, while Elantra Cox and Ashton Lampton scored runs. Cox, Strother, Sarah Van Schaik, and Kaylee Horton walked.
Ole Miss will play host to No. 13 Alabama this weekend. Game 1 of the three-game weekend series will be at 6 p.m. (SEC Network).
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