GULFPORT, Miss. – Southern softball fought their way through four straight elimination games to set up a winner-take-all game for the SWAC Championship, but the Lady Jags lost to Florida A&M 2-1 and fell just short of winning their first SWAC Tournament Championship since 2003.
With two runners on in the bottom of the seventh, Florida A&M Braxtyn Battle came up to pinch hit and she hit an RBI single to walk things off.
SWAC Pitcher of the Year Aaliyah Zabala threw a complete game for Southern and struck out three. Zabala held the Rattlers scoreless from the second inning all the way through the sixth…