If you happen to look on Birmingham-Southern School Wikipedia page, you may discover a variety of previous tense: Birmingham-Southern was this. Birmingham-Southern was that.
Luckily, regardless of the tiny liberal arts faculty’s closure on Friday, the varsity’s baseball group very a lot nonetheless is.
The Panthers defeated Randolph-Macon 9-7 Saturday in 9 innings to stay alive within the Division III School World Sequence. First baseman Jackson Webster was the hero, clubbing a walk-off residence run to delay his college’s existence one other day.
Birmingham-Southern’s story has made waves all through the baseball world, because the group tore off 19 wins in 23 video games after information of its college’s closure grew to become public.
Jackson Webster’s dad says, “Do your job, Jackson!” And he does! He blasts a two-run walkoff residence run and @BSCsports remains to be alive! Last: Birmingham-Southern 9, Randolph-Macon 7. #d3baseball pic.twitter.com/0McnlJ0WCu
— D3baseball (@d3baseball) June 2, 2024
Based over a century in the past, Birmingham-Southern has lengthy had a level of identify recognition on the planet of faculty sports activities. Its soccer team had credibility as a significant college within the Nineteen Twenties, and it briefly gave Division I a try within the 2000s.
The Panthers will play both Salve Regina or Wisconsin-Whitewater Sunday afternoon in Eastlake, Ohio.
