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LSU Shreveport completes perfect season with NAIA Baseball World Series championship
Posted: May 31, 2025

LSU Shreveport completes perfect season with NAIA Baseball World Series championship

LEWISTON, Idaho – LSU Shreveport capped an undefeated season with a 13-7 victory over Southeastern University (Fla.) in the title game of the 2025 NAIA Baseball World Series late on Friday at Harris Field.

While it marked the first championship for the LSUS program, it was much bigger than that. The Pilots' historic run broke every college record for winning streaks (59), best start and end to a season (59-0) and the singular achievement of being the only unbeaten team in the history of college baseball. 

With the weight of all that history on their shoulders, the Pilots were challenged by SEU in the final game and trailed 7-6 in the sixth inning. In the bottom half of that frame, Jackson Syring and Ian Montz delivered back-to-back home runs to put LSUS ahead for good. The Pilots tacked on two more runs in that frame, one in the seventh, and two more in the eighth inning. LSUS ace and tournament MVP Isaac Rohde closed it out with a three-up, three-down inning on the mound in the ninth, and the celebration was on for a program that was building toward this championship for decades. 

"It's unbelievable…it's hard to still comprehend," says LSUS head coach Brad Neffendorf. "It's hard to know that it's over because it has been such an unbelievable group like we talked about all year long. It was 35 years in the making. (LSUS) was one of the most historic programs that did not have a national title like we talked about all week long.

"This was a program national title. There were a lot of really good teams, a lot of really good players, lots of really good coaching staffs. They helped pave the way for us to get here. Our guys went out and did something unbelievably incredible this year. So many of them came back because they wanted to do this. It's not easy."

Of the five wins in the World Series, the first two games were by the same 6-3 score. After that, the Pilots won by margins of 10-0, 14-4 and the title game final of 13-7. As with any season, there are ups and downs and a few close calls along the way, especially early on. There were four one-run victories including a 7-6 margin over Indiana University-Southeast on Groundhog Day, and the last was a 5-4 nailbiter over Louisiana Christian in a conference contest on March 1. In the RRAC tournament, OLLU kept it to a 9-7 score which was an achievement against this LSUS squad.

"It's been incredible this year," says LSUS athletic director Lucas Morgan. "These guys have done it the right way. Obviously, there was a lot of success on the field. The way they carried themselves off the field. The way they did this in the classroom. The way they treated the fans and community. You couldn't ask for a better group of guys. I'm so proud of them."

The triumph marks the sixth team title in RRAC history. LSUS joins the Texas Wesleyan University men's basketball team of 2006, the University of Texas-Brownsville volleyball teams of 2011 and 2013, the Wiley men's track & field team of 2018, and Our Lady of the Lake's softball champions last year (2024).