Ole Miss and TCU opened the season playing each other. One of them will end it the same way.

Derek Odell hit a two-run home run, Brandon Finnegan allowed two runs and struck out seven in 71⁄3 innings, and TCU stayed alive at the NCAA College Station Regional by beating Ole Miss 5-2 on Sunday night.

The teams will play again tonight at 6:35 in College Station, Texas. The winner will advance to next week’s super regional round against UCLA, while the loser will have its season end.

It’ll be the third meeting between the teams in the regional, with each owning one victory. The teams also split a pair of games in a season-opening series in Fort Worth, Texas, in February.

Ole Miss (37-25) is trying to advance to the super regional round for the first time since 2009, while TCU (39-20) is trying to get back for the third time in four seasons.

Since losing its regional opener Friday against Ole Miss, TCU has won three straight elimination games and scored 43 runs.

“We’ve just got to come out with energy and know we can’t come out here thinking they’re a tired team, because we’ve seen what they’ve done the last couple games,“ Ole Miss first baseman Matt Snyder said. “We just have to come out tomorrow and be confident in what we can do. Just know we have a great opportunity to win a championship, so we have to keep our heads high tonight and be ready to play tomorrow.”

TCU survived a pair of elimination games Sunday, beating regional host Texas A&M 10-2 in the afternoon and then turning around to beat Ole Miss in the second half of a doubleheader.

Odell’s home run in the fourth inning gave the Horned Frogs a 2-1 lead, and they never trailed again. They added single runs in each of the next three innings to take a 5-2 lead. Justin Scharf pitched the last 12⁄3 innings for his fourth save of the season.

Finnegan allowed six hits and three walks, but kept Ole Miss in check after giving up an RBI single to Snyder in the bottom of the first inning. The Rebels’ only other run came on an RBI single by John Gatlin in the sixth.

Snyder finished with three hits, but the rest of the Rebels totaled just three. All six hits were singles. The Rebels did load the bases with two outs in the fifth, but TCU first baseman Kevin Cron reached over the rail into the visitors’ dugout to snag a foul pop up off the bat of Auston Bousfield.

R.J. Hively (5-6) allowed four runs on five hits in 52⁄3 innings, and took the loss. He had six strikeouts.

“TCU just played better than we did tonight,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said. “When you get to this point of the season, you aren’t going to sneak through. Brandon Finnegan was tremendous for them tonight and we couldn’t catch up to his fastball.”