Southern University’s long winning streak struck a roadblock in the SWAC Baseball Tournament.
Florida A&M erupted in waves, piling up runs across the middle innings before slamming the door on Southern for a commanding 15-6 victory on Thursday night.
The loss for the Jaguars ended a 16-game conference winning streak dating back to the regular season.
The Rattlers didn’t wait long to set the tone. After scratching across an early run in the second inning on an RBI double from Matthew Perez, FAMU kept the line moving in the third. Perez delivered again with an RBI single, and Josue Figueroa added a sacrifice fly to push the lead to 3-0.
Southern briefly answered in the fourth, but that momentum didn’t last long.
The fifth inning marked the beginning of the separation. RBI singles from Figueroa and Jordan Brown, along with a sacrifice fly from William Brown, stretched the lead to 6-2. An inning later, FAMU kept applying pressure as Ethan Miller and Perez drove in runs to make it 9-3.
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Then came the knockout punch.
In the seventh inning, FAMU erupted for three more runs behind extra-base hits. Jay Campbell doubled home a run, Jackson McKenzie followed with an RBI double of his own, and Colton Ryals capped the surge with another run-scoring double to push the advantage to 12-3.
On the mound, Garrett Workman scattered six hits and allowed only two earned runs over 5.2 innings of work for the Rattlers.
The FAMU offense was rolling
Campbell wasn’t done. He tripled down the right-field line later in the game, and McKenzie added a two-run homer to extend the lead even further on a night when the Rattlers pounded out 19 hits.
FAMU’s ability to string together quality at-bats—whether through power or discipline—proved too much for Southern to overcome.
By the final out, the Rattlers had turned a close early contest into a runaway, using a balanced attack and explosive middle innings to secure the win.
