OXFORD, Miss. - Apparently, the ladies aren't the only ones who dig the long ball. You can add Ole Miss to that list as well.

Facing off against Arkansas' Dallas Keuchel, the Rebels seemed to make the Razorbacks sophomore pay for every mistake he made. Three home runs off of Keuchel paced Ole Miss to an easy, 12-4 win Friday in front of 5,603 at Swayze Field.

The victory puts the Rebels (28-15, 11-8) a full three games ahead of the next closest Southeastern Conference Western Division foe, while Arkansas (24-18, 7-11) dropped farther from the SEC Tournament chase with the loss.

"We put runners on and we had our chances," Razorbacks coach Dave Van Horn said. "We just didn't get the big hit and they did, obviously."

Thanks mainly to a pair of fielding miscues by the Rebels, Arkansas was able to keep things close for the first half of the game. But after tying the score, 3-3 in the top of the fifth, Keuchel's inability to keep Ole Miss hitters from driving the ball deep finally caught up with the Diamond Hogs when Logan Williams' three-run blast put the Rebels up for good, 7-3.

Williams - a freshman from Damascus, Ark. - was playing just his fifth game and making his first SEC start after having his redshirt lifted last week.

"It always feels good when you do good, especially when you do good against your home state," Williams said. "It just feels good to come away with the win and to be able to do good."

While Arkansas clearly couldn't keep up with the Rebels' big bats, there was some signs of life in the Diamond Hogs' offense. But after scattering six hits against starter Lance Lynn in 5 2/3 innings, Ole Miss reliever Scott Bittle slammed the door shut on Arkansas by giving up just one more hit the rest of the way.

"The inning that really hurt us was the fifth," Van Horn said. "They give us a run or two, they're frustrated. You know we hadn't done a lot but he had tied the game up.

"And then giving out a two-out base hit and (Keuchel) hanging a breaking ball with a 1-2 count (to Williams), that was devastating The pitch was supposed to be buried and be a chase pitch. But you've got to give him credit, (Dallas) made a mistake and he made him pay for it."

Arkansas and Ole Miss continue the series at 4 p.m. today with Razorbacks' junior Justin Wells squaring off against Drew Pomaranz.