WATCH: Ole Miss baseball will honor its six seniors during Texas A&M series
Ole Miss baseball will honor its six seniors Saturday for the second of a three-game series against No. 2 Texas A&M.
Reagan Burford, Bo Gatlin, Ethan Groff, Ethan Lege, Mitch Murrell and Jackson Ross will all be recognized prior to first pitch. It’s the final home SEC series of the season for the Rebels (25-23, 9-15 SEC). Texas A&M enters play 41-8 (16-8) on the year.
Burford is a team captain. Lege and Ross are two of three starters hitting over .300. Groff hasn’t been caught in 15 stolen-base attempts, while Murrell has a 2-1 record over 13 relief appearances. Ross has 52 walks, the most by a Rebel since Thomas Dillard had a school-record 61 in 2019. Ross sits atop the SEC and is fourth in the country in free passes.
Lege hasn’t played in the last four-plus games but still leads Ole Miss in average (.323). He was hit by a pitch and fractured his right thumb against Mississippi State last Wednesday. Lege missed all of the Auburn series, though Ole Miss still took two of three.
The Rebels came away with their first successful road SEC series since 2022.
“After meeting with the doctors on Monday (Lege) has a clean fracture of the thumb,” Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco said this week. “But with where he is they wanted some bone growth and to see how he was.
“He was in some pain, obviously, over the weekend and didn’t play. He won’t play this weekend. Week-to-week, I guess.”
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Lege is one of five finalists for the Ferriss Trophy.
The Ferriss Trophy is handed out annually to the top college baseball player in Mississippi, and this year’s winner will be revealed May 20 during a ceremony in Choctaw.
Kemp Alderman was last year’s recipient and snapped a seven-year Ole Miss drought. Auston Bousfield, in 2014, had been the most recent Rebel. Lege is second among all Rebels in home runs (13). He has the third-most RBI (38).
Other candidates include Dakota Jordan (Mississippi State), Brett Sanchez (Belhaven), Dalton McIntyre (Southern Miss) and RJ Stinson (William Carey).
“He’s kind of the heart and the soul of the team,” Bianco said of Lege last month. “Great leader, great player. Selfless. Just a great leader that’s having a great year.”
