When it rain it pours: Southern rained out for home games but SWAC continues

Southeastern Louisiana in the Spring experiences some harsh weather conditions, as seen with heavy rain advisory last week.
Southern was supposedly going to stretch into their next set of games when they were to host an exhibition match against Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC) and UNO on Tuesday April 15, 2015 at Lee-Hines Field. Beforehand, the third series of their one on one bout against Loyola was cancelled for the same reason. These games were intended to increase the lead by warming up Southern into the Southwestern Athletic Conference Western Division run.
Southern (10-6, 13-18) settle at the third branch in the West beneath Arkansas-Pine Bluff (13-5, 19-4) who claims the number one spot and Texas Southern claiming second tier.
Southern hasn’t been first in the Western Division since 2009 and intend to end the four year streak in the dust.
Due to the rainy weather conditions they would continue to play their rescheduled two games on Sunday April 19, 2015.
In other news during the break stint of Southern on Wednesday, Alabama State (15-3, 27-11) leads in the east and took out Jacksonville State 8-7. Even though Jacksonville State had an explosive fourth inning, Alabama State capitalized in their fifth and sixth inning to attribute for six points a piece. Jackson State (11-5, 25-14) trailing in the second position in the East demolished LeMoyne-Owen College 13-0, which didn’t even have them settle for a point.
With Alabama State being watched on Friday, they combatted against Alcorn State and swept them under the rug 8-4 in their first game of the series. Then on Saturday they once again held Alcorn 14-9 and then came through and blew them out in the bullpen 15-2. In the first inning alone, M. Swint and Y. Pagan started off with hitting two homers. In the last game of the series Alabama only allowed Alcorn to score two runs and Alabama State was leading 5-2 until the explosive fifth and sixth inning when they scored five points an inning (mainly on technicalities) for a combination of 10 points and finished the series leading.
Jackson State on Sunday, April 19 at the same position that Southern is in but different divisions took down Alabama A&M in both games in the series. Jackson State first took down Alabama A&M 9-3 and then had a challenge when Jackson State held them 6-5 at the end.
In the clean up of the SWAC, Southern continues their journey as they return to the diamond, unfazed to face Arkansas-Pine Bluff. If winning this will pull the Jaguar’s chances to regain a decent spot within the SWAC and maintain a position for championship play.
Southern will continue to express excellence on the field to dismiss the stint they had for many years.