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Ole Miss set a new program record for home runs in a single season on Saturday while it was trying to save its season at the Oxford Regional. Consider both things done.
Long before the Rebels held off Western Kentucky, 8-6, in an elimination game, Austin Fawley made Ole Miss baseball history by crushing the Rebels’ 109th home run of the season in the 2nd inning. The opposite-field solo shot broke a 2-2 tie and gave the 2025 Ole Miss team the distinction of belting the most homers the Rebels have ever hit in a single season.
It was only the beginning of Ole Miss’s power surge on Saturday, as Fawley added another solo homer in the 4th inning. The Rebels (41-20) smacked 6 dingers in all in the victory that kept their season going, with Fawley, Mitchell Sanford and Judd Utermark each hitting 2 homers as Ole Miss broke the record and then some.
The Ole Miss baseball social media account celebrated the achievement with this tweet:
Fawley did the honors by breaking the record with his first of 2 homers on the day, and here is the video of Fawley’s history-making smash in the 2nd inning:
Ole Miss will now play on Sunday against the loser of Saturday’s game between Georgia Tech and Murray State. The Rebels lived to play another day, with possibly more power in store for Sunday as they fight to get out of their own regional.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
