FAMU Rattlers help to make MEAC baseball strong in the South

NORFOLK, Virginia  --  Coach Jamey Shouppe only has to look at the remaining teams in the MEAC baseball tournament to know that FAMU’s road out of the losers’ bracket could mean facing at least two teams from the Southern Division.

He also knows that if the Rattlers get to the championship game there is no escaping a team from the toughest division in the conference. Teams from the South have been dominant in title games for the past 20 years.

And, it’s shaping up to be more of the same this year.

Four of the remaining teams in the rain-delayed tournament are from the Southern Division. Bethune-Cookman, which has won more titles than any other team in the division, faces defending champion Savannah State for a berth to the title game.

If FAMU wants to be a finalist it will have to ...

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