Brian Pettway’s fourth-inning solo home run Friday night at the University of Tennessee earned the former Warren Central standout a place in the Ole Miss baseball record books.

Pettway, the Rebels starting right fielder, went 3-for-4 and extended his hitting streak to 22 consecutive games, breaking the school mark held by Kary Bridges and Chad Sterbens, in a 5-3 loss to the Volunteers.

“I was hoping he would do it,” said Bridges, whose Columbia Academy baseball team was in Vicksburg Friday night playing at Porters Chapel. “Hey, at least it lasted, what, 13 years?”

Pettway has had at least one hit in every game this season.

Trailing 4-0 in the top of the third inning, Pettway drilled his team-leading ninth home run of the season and recorded his 29th RBI. He added a leadoff double in the seventh inning – the second of the Rebels’ four hits to that point. He singled again in the ninth inning.

Coming into Friday night’s game, Pettway led the Rebels with a .434 average, 36 hits and a .783 slugging percentage.

The Division I baseball record for hitting steaks is held by Oklahoma State’s Robin Ventura, who hit in 58 straight games in 1987. Damian Constantino of Salve Regina University, a Division II school, holds the college mark by hitting in 60 straight games.