OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The last team to get into the NCAA baseball tournament was the last team standing.

Mississippi scored twice on wild pitches in a three-run eighth inning and the Rebels won their first national baseball title, sweeping Oklahoma in the College World Series finals with a 4-2 victory Sunday.

The Rebels (42-23) became the eighth national champion since 2009 to come out of the Southeastern Conference and third straight, and the trophy will stay in the Magnolia State for another year. Mississippi State won last year.

Ole Miss benefited from a runner-interference call that took a run away from Oklahoma (45-24) in the sixth inning. The Rebels also overcame a spectacular pitching performance by Cade Horton, who set a CWS finals record with 13 strikeouts.

The national title is the first for an Ole Miss men’s team and the second for the school. The women’s golf team won the NCAA championship in 2021.

Ole Miss beat out North Carolina State for the final at-large bid and had to go on the road for regionals and super regionals. The Rebels finished the season on a 20-6 run, including 10-1 in the national tournament.

M’S, ANGELS BRAWL, 8 EJECTED

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Seattle Mariners and the Los Angeles Angels engaged in a lengthy full-team brawl in the second inning Sunday after tensions over two days of inside pitches boiled over.

Both managers and six players were ejected after the brouhaha, which stopped and started twice before Angels closer Raisel Iglesias came back out to the empty field to throw a tub of sunflower seeds and another bucket of gum onto the infield.

Three of the first four hitters in Seattle’s lineup were ejected, while three Angels pitchers were tossed.

Seattle’s Jesse Winker was hit by the first pitch of the second inning by Angels opener Andrew Wantz, who had also thrown a pitch behind the head of the Mariners’ No. 2 hitter, Julio Rodriguez, in the first inning.

IOC REJECTS WOMEN’S EVENT

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The IOC will not add a women’s Nordic Combined to the 2026 Winter Games, a decision on Friday that confirms skiing as the only Olympic sport lacking gender equality.

The long-term Olympic future of Nordic Combined was also put in doubt with no commitment to keep the men’s event on the program in 2030.

Nordic Combined, which tests athletes in the contrasting disciplines of ski jumping and cross-country skiing, was one of the original 16 medal events at the first Winter Games in 1924.

However, the women’s event has only recently had global competitions, and the International Olympic Committee wants to see more evidence of broad appeal.

The last women’s championship had only 10 nations taking part, IOC member Karl Stoss said in announcing the decision. He cited a “very concerning situation” that Nordic Combined needed to develop a bigger audience and female athletes from more countries.

Stoss said that while men’s Nordic Combined athletes had been preparing “for many years” for the 2026 Milano-Cortina d’Ampezzo Olympics, the same was not true for the women.

Some athletes feared the IOC might solve the equality issue by dropping the men’s event in four years’ time.

The decision was made by the IOC executive board, which has twice as many men as women in a 10-5 split.