OXFORD – They’ve been here before, tantalizingly close to a trip to the College World Series against one of the country’s most historical college baseball powers.

It was just a year ago when the Ole Miss Rebels hosted a Game 3 at Oxford University Stadium in the Super Regionals. It’s been a year since the Texas Longhorns erased a 1-0 series lead and silenced a raucous crowd to win the series in three games.

Now it’s the Miami Hurricanes and their pedigree of four national championships and seven straight Super Regional appearances that have the Rebels on the ropes.

Miami hit four home runs on Sunday – two of them by freshman second baseman Jemile Weeks – and rolled to a 7-0 victory in Game 2 of the Oxford Super Regional.

The two teams will meet again tonight at 6 in the deciding game with the biggest of college baseball prizes waiting for the winner.

&#8220We won’t have a problem bouncing back Monday night,” said Ole Miss second baseman Justin Henry, a Vicksburg High grad. &#8220It’s Game 3 of a Super Regional, if you can’t get up for that you don’t need to be on the field. There is not much to be said, we all know what we have to do.”

Ole Miss (44-21) lost the coin flip for the third game and will be the visiting team again tonight. Rebels coach Mike Bianco said that may be a plus considering what happened on Sunday.

&#8220Maybe we can get up first and score a few early,” he said after watching the Canes score seconds into the bottom of the first inning when Weeks crushed the first of his two homers for a 1-0 lead. The Hurricanes scored three more in the second inning.

Weeks, the younger brother of current major leaguer Ricky Weeks of the Milwaukee Brewers, went 3-for-4 with two home runs and five RBIs. The Miami pitching staff held the Rebels without a run for the first time since a 1-0 loss to South Carolina on April 14.

&#8220Tonight they outplayed us. They outpitched us and outhit us,” Bianco said. &#8220They were too good tonight and it’s disappointing. The beauty is we get to come back here tomorrow and play again.”

Game 2 was in stark contrast to the opener when the Rebels erased a six-run deficit to take an 11-9 victory. Ole Miss managed only five hits – all singles – off of three Miami pitchers.

Danny Gil, a reliever who was making only his third start of the season, earned the win by pitching six strong innings. He struck out four. Jon McLean and Chris Perez combined for three innings of relief, allowing only an infield single in the ninth to Justin Brashear.

&#8220Ole Miss has an outstanding club,” Miami coach Jim Morris said. &#8220I don’t know if they are the top team in the SEC in hitting, but I know they are one of them. Our pitchers did an outstanding job and our defense made plays.”

Brett Buckvich lasted only 3 2/3 innings in falling to 6-6 on the year. He allowed six runs on nine hits and gave up three home runs. Freshman Cody Satterwhite pitched the final 4 1/3 innings and allowed only an eighth-inning home run to Yonder Alonso.

Bianco said Satterwhite may be available to work tonight, as will the bulk of the Rebels’ staff.

The Rebels will start freshman Lance Lynn. The Indiana native won the regional-clinching game against Tulane and the Rebels have won 9 of the last 10 games that he has started.

&#8220This is my freshman year, so I would say tomorrow would be the biggest game of my career,” Lynn said. &#8220I just have to come out and do what I have been doing for the last couple weeks and that is spotting my fastball and go from there.”

The Hurricanes (40-22) will send sophomore Manny Miguelez to the mound tonight. He is 8-4 on the season with a 4.01 ERA.

&#8220Tonight was our mulligan,” Bianco said. &#8220We’ll come out ready to battle tomorrow.”