MADISON, Ala.- The Jaguars bats heated up on day three of the 2021 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament Friday afternoon and evening at Toyota Field as Southern defeated Prairie View A&M 24-3. 

SU freshman Christian Davis allowed two first-inning runs, but settled in and took a one-hitter into the sixth inning. Davis used 82 pitches to throw a complete-game, giving up three hits. He walked two batters and had seven strikeouts.

Southern (18-28) scored 24 runs on 21 hits with no errors. The runs were the most Southern has scored since March 30, 2019, when it defeated Prairie View 26-4 in Baton Rouge. During the 2020 season Southern also handed the Panthers a 20-0 loss at Prairie View before the season was cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic
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The Jaguars got on the board in the second inning. Taj Porter singled up the middle. Followed by Tremaine Spears two-run homerun over the center field wall tying up the game 2-2. AJ Walter singled to center field to get on base as Isaiah Adams crushed a two-run homerun over the left field wall as the Jaguars took the 4-2 lead. 

Southern added four runs in the top of the third. It started with an RBI single down the left field line by Spears extending the lead to 6-2 and AJ Walter's RBI double to right field, making it 8-2.

Southern extended its lead to 14-2 and didn't look back from there. The Jaguars scored three runs in the fifth, five in the sixth and two in the seventh as they defeated the Panthers 24-3.

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The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) is considered one of the premier HBCU conferences in the country and currently ranks among the elite in the nation in terms of HBCU alumni playing with professional sports teams.
 
Current championship competition offered by the league includes competition for men in Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field and Tennis.
 
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