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Ole Miss pitcher Doug Nikhazy shouts toward his teammates in the dugout after an eighth inning strikeout. (MSU athletics)

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What a difference a day makes — that and a pitcher named Doug Nikhazy
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,04/19/21-10:23AM , 1,293 Reads 19,957 Statewide
On a sunny spring Saturday from jam-packed Dudy Noble Field after an 9-0 Ole Miss whitewash of Mississippi State, why write 700 words when just two will do?

Doug Nikhazy.
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Kamren James’ fourth inning home run to left field was a no-doubter, as his reaction shows. (MSU athletics)

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Make that 15 of 17; Bulldogs’ dominance of Rebels continues
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,04/19/21-10:17AM , 1,320 Reads 16,649 Statewide
The Ole Miss Rebels didn’t have Jake Mangum to kick them around Friday night. But Mississippi State’s deep, talented pitching did the job anyway in the Bulldogs’ 5-2 victory before an announced crowd of 10,291 fans that might well have been even larger.
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Jake Mangum kisses the Governor’s Cup after Mississippi State defeated Ole Miss in 2019. Mangum helped State dominate Ole Miss in recent seasons with the Bulldogs winning 14 of the last 16. But Mangum has moved on and perhaps the most anticipated Rebel-Bulldog games in the series’ 128-year history are this weekend in Starkville.

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Biggest Ole Miss-State series in history? There’s a lot of history.
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,04/16/21-10:03AM , 1,575 Reads 38,292 Statewide
Ole Miss and Mississippi State have played baseball for 128 years. That’s a lot of history. And yet, there probably has never been a more anticipated Rebel-Bulldog baseball series than the one scheduled for this weekend in Starkville.
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Brian Dozier will be at home on Opening Day and loves it
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,04/09/21-3:09PM , 1,882 Reads 43,321 Statewide
Major League Baseball’s opening day is set for Thursday. All 30 big league teams will play, but for the first time in a decade Mississippian Brian Dozier will not.
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