Troy comeback – Troy kept its College World Series run alive with a 12-8 elimination-game win over Ole Miss, rallying after falling behind 6-2 and erasing a four-run deficit late in the season’s biggest stage. The Trojans improved to 39-31, marked program’s first-ever Omaha w
For a team trying to survive Omaha, the hardest part is the waiting—the moment you realize the hole you dug isn’t small. Troy dug one anyway, then decided it wouldn’t stay there.
In an elimination game at the College World Series on Sunday. Troy rallied from a four-run deficit to beat Ole Miss 12-8 and secured the program’s first-ever win in Omaha. The Trojans improved to 39-31 and recorded their 18th comeback win of the season after erasing a 6-2 deficit. The comeback was rare in a specific way. too: Troy became only the third team in the last 15 years to overcome a deficit of four or more runs in an elimination game and still win.
Ole Miss, meanwhile, left the tournament after going 0-2 in this year’s College World Series. The Rebels had opened the event with a 6-2 loss to North Carolina before suffering this loss to Troy. With the defeat, Ole Miss (41-23) became the first team eliminated from this year’s College World Series.
The game played out like a slugfest with consequences. There were 26 combined hits and six home runs. marking the second-highest home run total in a game at Charles Schwab Field. It also matched a particular CWS milestone: it was the first College World Series game since 2001 in which both teams hit three home runs.
Ole Miss struck first in a way that felt like it could snowball. In the first inning, Judd Utermark and Hayden Federico delivered RBI hits to help Ole Miss jump ahead. Brayden Randle added a two-run homer in the second. and Collin Reuter launched another two-run shot in the fourth to give the Rebels a 6-2 advantage.
Troy didn’t get even—at least not at first. The comeback started showing up in the fifth inning. A bases-loaded balk by Hunter Elliott brought home a run, and Sean Darnell drove in a two-run single to shrink the deficit to one run. Darnell finished 3-for-3 with four RBIs.
The tie came in the seventh. Jimmy Janicki, who had the team-leading 21st home run, sent it to 6-6. Later in that same inning, Jabe Boroff ripped a two-run double during a four-run outburst that put Troy ahead for good. Houston Markham added an RBI single as the Trojans moved in front 9-6.
From there, Troy tightened the game and cashed in when it mattered. Troy outhit Ole Miss 14-12 and tacked on three insurance runs in the eighth after a pop-up was dropped by shortstop Owen Paino. Noah Thigpen earned the win with five innings of relief, and JP Robertson took the loss.
One inning can flip a season, but Sunday’s was a full swing. Troy’s rally wasn’t just a late push—it was a sequence of answers after Ole Miss built its lead, and it ended with Omaha finally turning its lights on for the Trojans.
Troy now moves on to face West Virginia on Tuesday, carrying momentum from an elimination win that put it in the small group of teams that have pulled off that kind of recovery at the College World Series.
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