BATON ROUGE, La. (Interstat) — The Southern Jaguars defeated the Alabama A&M Bulldogs 13-7 in a Southwestern Athletic Conference afternoon game Friday at Alex Box Stadium/Skip Bertman Field. Southern improved to 23-21 overall, while the Bulldogs fell to 7-43.

The Jaguars scored four runs in the first inning, with Kameron Byrd’s two-run single keying the outburst. Southern added four more runs in the fourth on Glenn Green III’s solo homer and a two-run single by Ryan Hunter. The Bulldogs answered with five unearned runs in the fifth to tie the game, but Southern responded with a sacrifice fly in the fifth and three runs in the eighth to pull away.

Kameron Byrd went 2 for 5 with four RBIs for Southern. Kenyon Hughes went 2 for 4 with two RBIs and Glenn Green III went 2 for 5 with a homer and three RBIs. Luis Ayala and Beny Bikar each had two hits.

Brady Baxter started for Alabama A&M, allowing three earned runs over 3 2/3 innings. Anthony Mateo yielded nine earned runs in 3 2/3 innings. Jayden Lawrence and Stephen Tolbert combined for three scoreless relief innings for the Jaguars.