See Calvin Harris make Ole Miss baseball history, tie SEC record with four home runs
Eight players in Ole Miss baseball's long and storied history had managed to compile three home runs in one game. Just last season, in fact, Tim Elko and Jacob Gonzalez achieved it.
But no player had ever hit four until Calvin Harris did so on Saturday against Missouri at Taylor Stadium, also tying the SEC record.
Four @Calvin_Harris33 Home Runs pic.twitter.com/E9RCunfS15
— Ole Miss Baseball (@OleMissBSB) May 6, 2023
Harris homered in the third, fourth and sixth innings to insert himself into the record books by tying the three-homer mark. It looked like his chance to lay a solo claim to the record had passed him by when he grounded out to second base in the seventh, but Ole Miss got him another crack at it in the ninth.
With a 1-0 count, Harris drove a fastball that caught a little too much plate over the batter's eye in center field for No. 4. He joins JJ Schwarz (Florida, 2015) and Bill Sandry (Kentucky, 1982) as SEC players with four homers but he's the only one to do it in a conference game.
The NCAA record is six set by Florida State's Marshall McDougall in 1999.
Harris also tied the Rebels' single-game RBI record with 10. The only other Ole Miss player to achieve that feat was Charlie Conerly in 1947 in a game against Millsaps.
The Rebels needed most of what Harris gave them in a 20-14 slugfest victory over the Tigers, salvaging the third game of an otherwise disappointing series loss.
The teams combined for six homers with Peyton Chatagnier accounting for the other two for Ole Miss.
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David Eckert covers Ole Miss for the Clarion Ledger. Email him at deckert@gannett.com or reach him on Twitter @davideckert98.
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