baseball sec tournament

- LSU closed its final homestand at Alex Box Stadium by polishing off a sweep of Mississippi State.
- Scott Bittle of Ole Miss was named one of three finalists for the 2008 Cellular South Ferriss Trophy, presented to the state's top college baseball player.
- Mississippi State won its final non-SEC baseball game of the season, beating Memphis 4-1.
- One of Ed Orgeron's heralded Ole Miss football recruits, former South Panola Mr. Football Chris Strong, withdrew from school.
- There was better news in Starkville, as MSU athletes posted a school-record GPA of 2.98 in the spring, with team-record bests in football (2.72) and women's basketball (3.26).
- Scott Bittle of Ole Miss and Joshua Fields of Georgia were on the list of 10 finalists for the Roger Clemens Award for the best pitcher in college baseball.
- Even on the brink of retirement, Ron Polk is not irrelevant. MSU's back-to-back wins against Arkansas in his final SEC series would prove, on Saturday, to be enough to keep the Razorbacks out of the SEC tournament field.
- The Ole Miss men's tennis team advances to Sunday's Elite Eight, beating North Carolina 4-2 in Tulsa, Okla.
- MSU's junior Marrissa Harris wins the SEC heptathlon title after finishing fourth a year ago.
Saturday: Rebels make it
- The chase for the SEC baseball tourney goes down to the final day. Ole Miss wins at Kentucky in extra innings to make the field as the No. 8 seed.
- Ole Miss standouts Brittany Reese (long jump) and Barnabas Kirui (3,000 meters) successfully defended their SEC outdoor titles at Auburn.
- In Hawaii, Aloha means hello and goodbye. MSU's softball team was greeted at NCAA tourney play with a 9-7 loss to Hawaii on Friday and eliminated with a 7-4 defeat the next day.

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