Southern, hosting Grambling, needs strong SWAC finish

Needing a sweep, Jaguars host Grambling in their final home weekend series

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- The Southern baseball team can still qualify for the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournament.

But the Jaguars have virtually no margin for error in climbing out of the West Division cellar to grab the last tournament berth from the division.

The glass-is-half-full aspect of this situation is Southern (7-22, 3-13) faces the team immediately ahead of it — Grambling — this weekend at Lee-Hines Field.

“The only way we can go is up at this point,” outfielder D.J. Wallace said. “That’s the way I’m looking at it — and what better series than Grambling, because they’re our rival.

“It’s huge. They’re going to come in wanting to beat us again, and we have to sweep them. That’s the main goal this weekend.”

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