No. 10 Ole Miss blasts 6 home runs to eliminate Western Kentucky from the Oxford Regional

OXFORD Miss AP Mitchell Sanford Judd Utermark and Austin Fawley each had a multi-homer championship and No national seed Mississippi beat Western Kentucky - on Saturday in the Oxford Regional It marked the first time since at least that three Rebels each hit two home runs in a meeting Ole Miss - plays another elimination meeting on Sunday against the loser of Georgia Tech and Murray State The season for Western Kentucky - came to a close with the second-most single-season wins in activity history Sanford led off the competition with a home run to right field and added his th of the season in the sixth for a - lead Fawley followed in the second with Ole Miss th home run of the season setting the operation s single-season record and giving Ole Miss a - lead Fawley also hit a homer to center his th of the season in the fourth for a - lead Utermark cleared the batter s eye for the second time in the tournament to make it - in the fifth with a -foot blast Utermark sent a shot over the right-field wall in the seventh for his th of the season and the club s th Ole Miss starter Hunter Elliott - through six complete innings and allowed just one earned run on eight hits with seven strikeouts and three walks He became the fourth Rebel in campaign history to have two seasons with strikeouts AP college sports https apnews com hub college-sports Source