JACKSON, Tenn. – No. 6 Loyola defeated No. 1 Abraham Baldwin 5-3 to win the 2026 SSAC Baseball Championship. The title is the second-straight for the Wolf Pack.
Both teams will receive automatic bids to the 2026 NAIA Baseball National Championship Opening Round.
Inside The Box Score
- Thomas Hakimian picked up the win with 6.1 innings of three-run ball, scattering nine hits
- Jake Cohen tossed 2.2 innings of one-hit, shutout relief for the save
- Hunter Ponson went 2-for-4 with a double and a homer for Loyola, while Myles Liggans went 1-for-2 with an RBI
- ABAC had 10 hits on the day, but stranded nine runners
- Quentin Rawls, Zack Bowman, Chasin Cash and Dylan Davis all had two-hit days for the Stallions
- Lalan Ellis logged 4.2 innings of one-hit, shutout relief for ABAC
How It Happened
- The Wolf Pack did the bulk of their damage with a four-run second
- Ponson started the inning with a homer and the scoring was capped by an error that brought home a pair of runs with two outs
- ABAC answered with two runs in the bottom half of the frame after three-straight hits, with Bowman and Rawls driving in runs
- ABAC started the seventh with back-to-back hits, but Cohen came on in relief and shut the door the rest of the way