Coach Bianco confirms Hunter Elliott has sprained UCL, updates timeline for possible return
OXFORD, Miss. — Following Wednesday’s midweek game against Louisiana Tech, Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco gave an update on sophomore pitcher Hunter Elliott who has been out since the season opener against Delaware due to “forearm tightness.”
Coach Bianco confirmed Wednesday evening that Hunter suffered a sprained UCL and will be out until mid-April if all goes as planned.
In his only appearance this season, Elliott went five innings, striking out nine, giving up two three hits and two runs, and one walk.
Here’s what Coach Bianco had to say about his ace:
“He had an MRI last week and we appreciate our orthopedist Dr. (Kurre) Luber and the way he’s handled it. And at the request from Hunter and his family, we wanted several opinions and wanted several people to look at this. We sent it to a handful of physicians around the country and fortunately for us all the answers have come back very consistent of what it is. It’s a sprained UCL. They want him to take three weeks off from throwing, which he’s already taken two will be Friday. So a week from Friday he will start to work back to action. But it’s a little more methodical just because of where it is and the sensitivity of that injury. And so they want to make sure that he’s fine. It’ll slowly progress back to the mound and once he gets back to the mound, he’ll throw some bullpens and throw some live hitters. It looks like, and again we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves, but it looks like probably somewhere in mid-April he will be able to throw in a game, live. He’ll be throwing obviously before then but live in a game…we don’t want to box ourselves in too much but I think that’s where we are with that.“
Coach Mike Bianco on Hunter Elliott
We will keep you posted on any additional updates as they come.
Evelyn Van Pelt
Evelyn has covered sports for over two decades, beginning her journalism career as a sports writer for a newspaper in Austin, Texas. She attended Texas A&M and majored in English. Evelyn's love for Ole Miss began when her daughter Katie attended the university on a volleyball scholarship. Evelyn created the Rebel Walk in 2013 and has served as publisher and managing editor since its inception.
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