MISSISSIPPI REBELS ROUT TENNESSEE-MARTIN 17‑6 IN SEVEN INNINGS
OXFORD, Miss. (Interstat) — Will Furniss drove in five runs on a double and a single as Mississippi routed Tennessee-Martin 17-6 in a game called after seven innings Tuesday at Swayze Field.
Furniss finished 2 for 4 for the Rebels (35-18), who scored 12 runs in the second inning alone. Austin Fawley went 2 for 3 with a home run and four RBIs, and Judd Utermark was 2 for 2 with a homer and two RBIs. Mississippi pitchers Wil Libbert (three innings, three hits, three strikeouts) and Owen Kelly (two innings, one hit, four strikeouts) combined for five scoreless frames.
Tennessee-Martin (23-26) managed nine hits, including two from Terence Grines, who drove in a run. Skyhawks starter Silas Jones allowed one earned run over two innings.
Utermark’s two-run homer in the first put Mississippi ahead 2-0. The Rebels blew it open with a 10-run second, highlighted by Fawley’s homer and Furniss’ three-run double. Mississippi added runs in the third, fifth and sixth innings. Tennessee-Martin scored five unearned runs across the third, fifth and sixth innings.