The Birmingham-Southern College baseball team has advanced to the College World Series – but by the time they play in it, the school will no longer exist.
On March 26, the school announced they would “cease operations” on May 31 after the school “failed to win sufficient support in the Alabama House of Representatives.”
The school had been trying for a year-and-a-half to “obtain bridge funding from a $30 million state loan program conceived and enacted to save” the school, which opened in 1856.
Birmingham-Southern will be in the College World Series after the school shuts down. (Birmingham-Southern College)
The board of trustees then voted unanimously to close the college.
Well, less than a week before the school will be closed, the Panthers punched their ticket to Eastlake, Ohio, where the final eight teams will be vying for the national title.
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