Watch: Shuttered college's baseball team's run ends on walk-off HR

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Watch: Shuttered college's baseball team's magical run ends on walk-off HR

By Eric Smithling | Last updated Jun 2, 2024 8:34 PM ET

The door officially closed on Birmingham-Southern College on Sunday.

The Division-III school, which shuttered operations on May 31, lived on through its baseball team, which made an improbable run to the D-III baseball championship quarterfinals.

For most of Birmingham-Southern's game against Wisconsin-Whitewater, it appeared the team's magical run would continue.

BSC took a 10-5 lead in the top of the sixth when second baseman Andrew Dutto scored the final run in program history.

WEBBY CANNOT BE STOPPED

The Chelsea native gives us ! pic.twitter.com/n3BRYX0sOl
— BSC Athletics (@BSCsports) June 2, 2024

UWW scored six unanswered runs, including a tying two-run blast by first baseman Eli Frank and the walk-off shot by right fielder Sam Paden.

SURVIVE AND ADVANCE:

Whitewater ends Birmingham-Southern's Cinderalla run, completing a comeback on a Sam Paden walk-off homer.@UWWBaseball is one of four teams left in the DIII College World Series.

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— Andrew Bandstra (@andrewbandstra) June 2, 2024

The university officially closed at the end of May "after a 2024 bill designed to amend ... [an] established loan program failed to win sufficient support in the Alabama House of Representatives."

Notable BSC alumni include actress Kate Jackson, who starred in "Charlie's Angels" from 1976-79, country singer Walker Hayes and former MLBer Bruce Maxwell, who notably was the first major leaguer to join former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's 2016 protest against police brutality.

Eric Smithling

Eric Smithling is a writer based in New Orleans, LA, whose byline also appears on Athlon Sports. He has been with Yardbarker since September 2022, primarily covering the NFL and college football, but also the NBA, WNBA, men’s and women’s college basketball, NHL, tennis and golf. He holds a film studies degree from the University of New Orleans

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