Last swing: Birmingham-Southern's baseball team keeping closing school's spirt alive in World Series

EASTLAKE, Ohio (AP) — They're playing for each other, a community dealing with a different kind of grief and a school that united them but is now closing — for good.

Birmingham-Southern's baseball team is making one last run.

The final swing. There's no waiting 'til next year.

On Friday, the Panthers will continue an unexpected, uplifting season that has captured hearts across the country by playing in the Division III World Series on the same day the liberal arts college founded on the eve of the Civil War shuts its doors.