Nine RBIs, Two Homers: Caviness Makes History in Indians' Win

FULTON, Miss. - Will Caviness did not just have a big day. He rewrote the day.

Caviness set a modern-day program record with nine RBIs and launched two homers as the Indians used a sixth-inning avalanche to flip Dyersburg State and run-rule the Eagles 18-8 in eight innings Tuesday at Cresap Field.

ICC (3-2) looked dead in the water heading to the bottom of the sixth, down 7-3, then the Indians lit the place up with an 11-run frame that turned a deficit into a lead and then into a blowout.

It started with pressure. Noah Canten worked a bases-loaded walk to bring home Cannon Graham. Then Caviness stepped in and changed the game in one swing, hammering a grand slam to left to put ICC in front 8-7.

And the Tribe kept rolling. Brody Thompson doubled and came around on a Reid Kent single. Tre Gunn drew the Indians' second bases-loaded walk of the inning. Caviness kept adding to the stack with a single to left to score Graham, and Gunn later scored on a passed ball as the Eagles struggled to find an out.

Dyersburg State (2-4) scratched a run back in the top of the eighth, but the Indians answered with a four-run bottom half to trigger the run rule and close it with authority. Caviness capped his history-making night with a two-run homer, and Thompson delivered the final blow with a two-run shot that invoked the mercy rule.

Scott Green (1-0) earned his first win of the season, allowing one unearned run on one hit with one walk in two innings of work.

The Indians finished with 13 hits. Caviness went 4-for-5 with nine RBIs and two runs scored. Kent collected three hits, and Jacob Pearl and Thompson added two hits apiece.

Next up: ICC is scheduled to host Illinois Central in a nine-inning game Thursday, with the Guaranty Bank opening pitch set for 7 p.m.


Note: Will Verdung (vs East Mississippi '22), Lane Domino (vs Coahoma '21) and Gable Butler (vs East Central '15) had set the single-game RBI record 7 before Caviness' performance.