Blog result_excerpt In Search Results Not Showing Keyword

When using perch_content_search to search blog posts, the result_excerpt is always the first x numbers of characters (specified by excerpt-chars) for the post, instead of the snippet of text including the matching the keyword.

I've compared this with a site where search happens on a collection and the result_excerpt always renders the portion of text containing the keyword.

Diagnostics:

Perch Runway: 3.0.14
Production mode: Production (100)
Installed apps: content (3.0.14), assets (3.0.14), categories (3.0.14), perch_blog (5.6.1), perch_forms (1.10), perch_gallery (2.8.9), perch_mailchimp (3.1)
DB driver: PDO
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Users: 2
App runtimes:
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?>
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update_2.4.2: done
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GD: Yes
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PHP memory limit: 128M
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