BATON ROUGE, La. (Interstat) — Kameron Byrd’s two-run single in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted Southern to a 9-8 win over Alabama A&M in a Southwestern Athletic Conference game Thursday at Alex Box Stadium/Skip Bertman Field. The Jaguars, who improved to 22-21, rallied from an 8-5 deficit with two runs in the seventh before Byrd’s walk-off hit scored Jacoby Radcliffe and KJ White Jr. Byrd finished 2-for-5 with four RBIs. Alabama A&M (7-42) took a 7-5 lead on Tarris Murray’s solo homer in the top of the ninth, but Southern answered. Murray earlier had a two-run single and finished with three RBIs. Bryce Hammonds homered in the third for the Bulldogs, who had 10 hits to Southern’s 11 but fell short. Jaguars starter Bobby Spencer allowed seven runs on seven hits over 5 1/3 innings, striking out three. Genesis Prosper threw two scoreless innings. For the Bulldogs, Evan Hurlburt tossed three innings of hitless relief, allowing one earned run. Raymond Clark also threw three hitless innings but surrendered four runs while striking out three. Kenyon Hughes drove in a run for Southern. The game, played from afternoon into evening, featured eight runs scored in the final two innings. The teams meet again Friday.