OXFORD, Miss. – It was a unique night for baseball that even saw a delay due to fog, but the Rebels got a big inning when it needed it as No. 2 Ole Miss (6-0) used a pair of home runs to push past Indiana State (1-3) by a score of 6-4 on Friday.

Zach Miller set the pace for the Rebel offense with a 2-for-2 night that also included two walks, two runs scored and an RBI. But the long ball put the Rebels in control of the night as Cody Overbeck and Logan Power both hit two-run home runs in the fifth inning and the Rebel pitchers closed things out from there.

Lance Lynn (2-0) picked up his second win of the season as he worked 7.0 innings, allowing four runs – two earned – on seven hits with two walks and nine strikeouts. Justin Cryer picked up his first save of the season as he closed out the ninth with two walks and two strikeouts while allowing no hits.

Michael Manus (0-1) suffered the loss for the Sycamores as he worked 4.0 innings and allowed five runs on six hits with four walks and three strikeouts.

“Baseball is a rare sport where can pretty much see anything happen,” said Ole Miss head coach Mike Bianco. “You can play in cold games, hot games, games in rainstorms and then there are games with fog. I thought the pitchers did a great job fighting out there and we came up with some hits when we needed them.”

The Sycamores got on the board in the first as Brady Shoemaker singled to score Chris Schmidt from third. Schmidt reached on a lead-off double before Brian Ramirez would reach on a fielding error at shortstop. A walk loaded the bases before a sac fly to left field from Brian Jett pushed the second run across for Indiana State as the Sycamores held a 2-0 lead after the first frame.

Ole Miss answered in the third inning when Jordan Henry scored on a single to short from Zach Miller. Henry doubled to open the inning before taking third on a throwing error from the pitcher in a pick-off attempt. Miller then crossed the plate on a single from Kyle Mills that scored Miller from second base and tie the game at two.

The Rebels took the lead in the fourth inning when Cody Overbeck hit a two-run shot to right field that also scored Zach Miller who had walked to open the inning. Michael Guerrero drew a walk in the next at bat before Logan Power would homer to left field to push the Rebel lead out to 6-2.

Indiana State cut back into the lead in the seventh, putting two runs on the board in a fog-filled inning. A double and a single to open the inning runners at the corners before a single from Stausborger to right center pushed the first run across the plate. The Rebels went to the bullpen for Scott Bittle and at that point, the umpires pushed the game into a fog-delay that would last for 30 minutes.

Out of the delay, Bittle took the mound for the Rebels with runners at first and second. A passed ball pushed both runners into scoring position before Bittle would notch a strikeout for the first out of the frame. A fielding error on the toss to the bag from a grounder to first allowed the second run of the inning to score. The Rebels then got out of the inning with a critical play at the plate off a grounder to third from Brady Shoemaker and a Bittle strikeout of Nick Ciolli.

Bittle then closed out the eighth inning before Cryer picked up his save with his efforts in the ninth.

Ole Miss and Indiana State will return to the diamond on Saturday when the two-teams will face off at 3:30 p.m. in the second game of a three-game series.