WATCH: Ole Miss baseball finally cracks Governor’s Cup code in walk-off win
The odds were stacked against Ole Miss baseball in Pearl Tuesday night.
The Rebels had lost back-to-back Governor’s Cup games to in-state rival Mississippi State. They were 5-11 since the series moved to the former home of the Mississippi Braves in 2007.
More pressing, Ole Miss was coming off a 1-3 week that saw them drop from near the Top 10 to as low as No. 23. The Rebels, simply, were in desperate need of a win.
They got it in walk-off fashion, and they rallied from a couple of multi-run deficits to pull it off.
Ole Miss plated two runs in the fourth to cut into an early, 3-0 Mississippi State lead. The Rebels took their first lead with three runs in the fifth. Will Furniss, who supplied the winning single in extra innings, sent a two-run home run to the opposite field. He has six on the year.
Ole Miss was down 7-5 in the ninth, but Kentucky transfer catcher Austin Fawley delivered the Rebels from the brink with his sixth homer in his last seven games.
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Fawley’s two-run shot gave him 11 for the year, the second-most of all Rebels.
“Fawley’s obviously been swinging it as well as anybody on the team,” Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco said. “Just a good swing.
You’re never out of it. Proud of them because it wasn’t easy tonight. It was one of those games where you play your arch rival, we go down three, we come back, then go right back out and give it to them on the mound with four runs. But our guys hung in there and kept competing.
“Just a good night for us.”
Fawley is riding a breakout season at the plate. As a result Fawley has emerged as Ole Miss’ primary catcher over Campbell Smithwick, who started Tuesday. Fawley had just two home runs in 10 games as a Wildcat freshman last season.
Furniss singled in Brayden Randle with two outs in the 10th for the decider of an 8-7 Ole Miss win. The Rebels (29-12, 10-8 SEC) next host No. 9 Vanderbilt for a three-game series this weekend. First pitch of Game 1 is Friday at 6:30 p.m. CT on SEC Network+. The Commodores swept Georgia over the weekend.
The included highlights were provided by Ole Miss Athletics.
