The wildest story in sports activities proper now could be happening within the Division III Faculty World Sequence. It’s there that Birmingham-Southern College stayed alive on Saturday with a dramatic walk-off dwelling run from first basemen Jackson Webster to beat Randolph-Macon by a 9-7 margin.
What makes this so wild is that Birmingham-Southern, technically talking, not exists as a college.
The college formally shut down and closed its doorways on Friday as a result of monetary woes and is not in operation.
The baseball staff, nonetheless, continues to be going robust.
Birmingham-Southern will probably be again in motion on Sunday for an opportunity to maintain its season — and the final remnants of its college — alive within the quarterfinals. A win would put them into the DIII semifinals.
Birmingham-Southern was a liberal arts college in Birmingham, Alabama, that obtained its begin in 1856 as Southern College. The college finally merged with Birmingham Faculty.
The college had an enrollment of simply 975 college students when it ceased operations this week.
