The Birmingham-Southern Panthers won their fifth SAA baseball championship Monday, clinching the title with an 8-3 win over the Millsaps Majors in Game 2 of the SAA Championship Series at Striplin Field in Birmingham, Alabama, and winning the best-of-3 series 2-0. 

Birmingham-Southern used a three-run fifth inning to turn the game in their favor, with a two-run homer from Ian Hancock serving as the big blow. That bomb gave the Panthers a 5-2 lead and it came after Noah Best had hit a go-ahead double to make it 3-2 just one batter earlier. 

A Hancock RBI triple in the first gave Birmingham-Southern a 1-0 lead early, but Millsaps answerd in the top of the fourth with a two-run double by Sam Suggs to take a 2-1 lead of their own. That advantage lasted only until the next half-inning, as an RBI single by Alfredo Granier tied the score and led to the heroics by Hancock and Best.

Those two weren't done, as Hancock added a solo homer in the seventh and Best drove in another run with a single in the eighth. Hancock wound up going 3-for-4 with four RBIs while Best went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and a run scored.

The Panthers finish their regular season 38-8, and now wait to see who they will play in this month's NCAA tournament regional.