Alex Box Stadium was one of several LSU athletic facilities damaged by thunderstorms that rolled through Baton Rouge early Thursday morning. Eddie Nunez, associate athletic director of operations and project development, said the stadium’s outfield was hit the hardest and the entire fence will need to be replaced at some point because the structure was knocked off its foundation.    Despite the damage, both Nunez and LSU coach Paul Mainieri said LSU’s weekend series with No. 11 Ole Miss will go on as scheduled — beginning tonight at 7 p.m. in Alex Box Stadium.Both the Tigers and the Rebels come into the weekend with 4-2 records in Southeastern Conference games. The teams met in the finals of the 2008 SEC tournament with LSU winning 8-2.”It’s going to be fun,” said LSU junior second baseman Ryan Schimpf. “It’s going to be an intense weekend. We’ve got to come out with a lot of fire and jump on them right off the bat.”The Tigers enter the game having won four straight games.But Mainieri was not pleased with LSU’s effort — especially in Tuesday’s 4-3 win against Harvard, forcing the Tigers’ third-year coach to sit several starters in Wednesday’s game.”This team’s not going to be a team where there are two or three players who think the world revolves around them,” Mainieri said. “Some of the young players stepped in and played great, and I think some of the veteran players who were maybe comfortable in their roles got shook up a little bit.” Ole Miss’ strength is its pitching depth.The Rebels have six pitchers who currently have a 4.00 ERA or less, something Mainieri said will be a major challenge to an LSU offense that has been hit-or-miss all season.”It’s hard to get hot against the Rebels,” he said. “They’ve got some really good arms.”Ole Miss sophomore Drew Pomeranz will likely start Friday’s game for the Rebels.Pomeranz had success against LSU in his freshman season pitching eight innings and allowed just four hits in a 7-1 Ole Miss victory.”He’s a hard-throwing left hander,” Mainieri said. “He’s a very good one.”But the Rebels pitchers struggled in the team’s past two games and have allowed 34 combined runs in losses to Alabama and St. Louis.The struggles forced the Rebels to move All-American senior closer Scott Bittle to the starting rotation, a move Rebels coach Mike Bianco hopes can jumpstart his struggling rotation.”Giving up about 34 runs in two games hasn’t been good or a lot of fun,” Bianco said in a news release. “It seems we’re never out of the game no matter the score, but you just can’t give up that many runs.”Mainieri said he knows his team will get the best Ole Miss has to offer this weekend, despite the Rebels losing consecutive games coming into the series.”Anytime you get LSU and Ole Miss on the same field in whatever sport, it’s going to be highly intense,” Mainieri said. “[Bianco] will have his guys ready for sure. And hopefully the coach for LSU will have the Fighting Tigers ready to play, too.”——Contact Casey Gisclair at [email protected]