The only things that could slow down Ole Miss and Mississippi State on Sunday were the weather and the rulebook.

Ole Miss finished a three-game sweep of the Bulldogs with a 19-11 victory, cut short by rain and a Southeastern Conference rule that prevents an inning from starting after 6 p.m. on Sunday. The first three innings of the game took nearly two hours to play and included a combined 15 runs from the two teams.

After a 4-2 pitchers’ duel in Friday’s opener, Ole Miss and State scored 52 runs on 53 hits in the last two games.

The sweep was Ole Miss’ first in Starkville since 1972.

“It was just a crazy, crazy baseball game,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said. “I’m proud of the guys hanging in there. It was a long, hard-fought weekend. We played well offensively today and got some clutch hits with two outs. They played great offensively as well. At times it seemed like the only way to get an out was to strike somebody out. We’re fortunate that we swung it well today, in a day when we needed all the hits.”

The Rebels’ 10th consecutive victory pulled them into a tie for first in the SEC West with Arkansas, which lost 13-2 to Auburn on Sunday and dropped two out of three in that series. Ole Miss (33-13, 14-7 SEC) and Arkansas (35-10, 14-7) play a three-game set in Oxford next weekend.

Ole Miss heads into the series with Arkansas as the hottest team in the SEC. Every starter had at least one hit in Sunday’s finale against Mississippi State (20-23, 5-16), and the Rebels totaled 15 hits. They scored four runs in the fifth inning and six more in the sixth to blow open the slugfest. The surge was capped by Taylor Hashman’s three-run homer in the sixth.

Hashman finished with four RBIs, while Matt Snyder was 3-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs scored. Tim Ferguson was 3-for-5 and scored four runs. Snyder, Hashman and Ferguson all homered.

Russ Sneed went 3-for-5 with a homer, three RBIs and three runs scored for Mississippi State and Sam Frost was 4-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored.