Ole Miss had a perfect opportunity to seize control of the SEC West on Sunday, but the Arkansas Razorbacks had other ideas.

Mike Bolsinger struck out 11 batters and allowed only two hits in eight shutout innings, and Andy Wilkins homered, doubled and drove in three runs as Arkansas beat Ole Miss 7-0 in the rubber game of a weekend series in Oxford.

With Sunday’s victory, Arkansas (37-11, 16-8 Southeastern Conference) clinched the series and moved a game ahead of Ole Miss (34-15, 15-9) and Auburn in the SEC West with two weeks left in the regular season. Ole Miss’ last two series are against Alabama and Auburn, while Arkansas plays East Division co-leader South Carolina and Vanderbilt. Auburn plays Tennessee next weekend.

After Ole Miss and Arkansas split the first two games of the series, Sunday’s finale was for first place. Bolsinger made sure the Razorbacks left in front.

After giving up a two-out single to Taylor Hashman in the second inning, Bolsinger retired the next eight batters before Taylor Hightower reached on an error in the fifth. The Rebels didn’t get another hit until Tanner Mathis led off the eighth inning with an infield single.

Bolsinger walked three batters and hit another.

“It was a tough game today,” Ole Miss coach Mike Bianco said. “We didn’t execute well offensively. You have to give credit to Bolsinger. He was terrific and was able to win almost every full count. He made the pitches when they mattered.”

Tim Carver put Arkansas ahead with an RBI single in the fourth inning, and Wilkins hit a two-run homer in the fifth to make it 3-0. The Razorbacks added another run in the sixth inning and three more in the seventh, going ahead 7-0 on another RBI single by Carver.

Carver finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs, and Brett Eibner had two hits and scored two runs for the Razorbacks.