LIVINGSTON, Ala. – The University of West Alabama baseball team dropped it season finale on Sunday afternoon at Tartt Field, falling 6-3 to No. 1 West Florida despite outhitting the opponents. The loss gives UWA a final record of 19-22 (5-15 Gulf South Conference) while UWF moves on as East Division champions with a 42-6 (17-3 GSC) mark.

The losing season is the first for UWA since the team went 18-35 during the 2002 campaign.

The contest marked the final one of the careers for eight seniors as Clint Brown, Brian Burgess, Kevin Deese, Jay Jennings, Colin McKeen, Brian Simone, Josh Varner and Deon Williams were recognized during an on-field ceremony prior to the game.

Trailing by a run going into the bottom of the fourth inning, three of those seniors joined together with Ladarrius Cole to put the Tigers on top.

Cole led the inning off with a single before Simone picked up his team-best 18th double of the season to put runners at second and third for Deese. A Fosters, Ala., native, Deese picked up his first RBI of the night on a sacrifice fly into center to score Cole. Pushing UWA ahead, McKeen doubled down the left field line to score Simone and produce a 2-1 score.

The game remained at 2-1 as UWA starter Taylor Bratton wiggled out of a couple jams in the next couple of innings. Not factoring in the decision, Bratton threw six innings and scattered five hits while walking four and striking out four.

Varner (0-3) relieved Bratton in the seventh and after retiring the first man he faced, he walked the next two before surrendering a three-run blast to Dustin Lawley. The Argos proceeded to go back-to-back as Greg Pron belted one out, and UWF took a 5-2 lead.

Collecting his second RBI of the night, Deese singled in Cole in bottom frame of the seventh to pull UWA back within two at 5-3. It also marked the 149th career run driven in for Deese as he leaves fourth all-time in the Red and White in that statistical category.

The Argos tacked on a run in the eighth, but the guests were held at bay by Burgess in the ninth as he capped off his career with a pair of strikeouts while throwing a perfect inning.

Daniel Vargas-Vila (11-1) earned the win for West Florida, and Shane Waller (10) picked up the save by working around a walk in the final at-bat for the Tigers.

UWA outhit the Argos 11-7 for the day as the Tigers pounded out 11 more hits than the visitors did on the weekend, collecting 28 compared to UWF's 17.