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OLE MISS’ BOUSFIELD CLAIMS 2014 C SPIRE FERRISS TROPHY
Ole Miss’ junior
outfielder Auston Bousfield was named the 2014 recipient of the C Spire
Ferriss Trophy at a luncheon on Monday afternoon presented by the
Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.
The C Spire Ferriss
Trophy is presented annually to the top collegiate baseball player in
the state of Mississippi and is named for "Boo" Ferriss, former
Delta State head coach and member of the Mississippi Sports Hall of
Fame, Delta State Hall of Fame and Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame.
Bousfield
is the fifth Ole Miss player to be named a C Spire Ferriss Trophy
winner. He joins previous winners Stephen Head (2004), Brian Pettway
(2005), Scott Bittle (2008) and Drew Pomeranz (2010) in claiming the
award.
The Oakland, Florida, native has been one of the top
players in the rugged Southeastern Conference this season as he helped
Ole Miss post a 40-16 record on the year and claim the SEC Western
Division championship with a 19-11 mark in SEC play.
Bousfield
ranks among the league leaders in several offensive categories at the
end of the regular season, pacing the league in hits (83), and also
ranking among the league leaders in batting average (3rd - .353), total
bases (4th – 117), runs score (6th – 47), RBI (6th – 45), stolen bases
(6th – 16), slugging percentage (7th - .498) and doubles (10th – 15).
He
exploded offensively when he helped lead the Rebels to a series sweep
on the road at No. 17 Kentucky, batting .714 for the weekend with eight
runs scored and seven RBI to garner SEC Player of the Week honors and
national Hitter of the Week honors from the National Collegiate
Baseball Writers Association.
Bousfield has been stellar
defensively at centerfield, committing only one error this year that
came in the final game of the regular season at Texas A&M. For his
three-year career, the senior has committed only two errors and is
fielding at a .995 clip.
In addition to his Player of the Week
performance at Kentucky, Bousfield came up big two weekends ago in a
series win over Georgia, driving in both runs in the series-clinching
Sunday win over the Bulldogs in 10-innings.
He has also been
named as a semifinalist for the Gregg Olson Award, honoring the
breakout player of the year in college baseball.
The junior will
take the field again for the Rebels on Wednesday afternoon as Ole Miss
opens play at the SEC Tournament at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in
Hoover, Alabama. As the overall No. 2 seed in the tournament, the
Rebels received a bye in Tuesday’s action and will face the winner of
the first day’s game between seventh-seeded Arkansas and 10th-seeded
Texas A&M.
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