LEWISTON, Idaho — Friday night, the LSU Shreveport baseball team can complete a preposterous season with a victory at the NAIA World Series.
Secretary of State Landry declared today LSU Shreveport Pilots Baseball Day for the state of Louisiana in honor of the team’s historic 58-0 season and appearance in the NAIA Baseball National Championship game tonight pic.twitter.com/h1excCc5j9
— Lucas Morgan (@LucasMorganAD) May 30, 2025
A win against Southeastern (Fla.) — a team the Pilots already run-ruled (10-0) in this tournament – would give the program from northwest Louisiana 59 wins.
With zero losses.
59-0? In baseball?
Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry didn’t need to wait. Friday, she declared it “LSU Shreveport Pilots Baseball Day” to honor the record-breaking 58-0 start.
Pilots head coach Brad Neffendorf has compiled a roster built with players — all transfers at one point — from 20 states and four countries and made it appear seamless.
“It’s been so crazy how much the community has supported us. We could get a movie,” Pilots senior pitcher Isaac Rohde, a product of Rice Lake, Wisc., said. “This is crazy, movie-type stuff.”
All but one player (38 of 39) is an upperclassman.
This team was built to win. But make history? This kind of history? That would have been hard to fathom.
“It’s jaw-dropping being a part of this,” pitcher Brock Lucas, who began his college career at Tennessee said.
Thursday, the Pilots secured the longest winning streak for any college baseball program.
“Guys get punched in the mouth and we’re foaming at the mouth to go punch somebody back,” outfielder Ryan Davenport said.
And punch they do.
LSUS makes its first World Series title game appearance with a team that’s collected as many wins by at least nine runs than by fewer than nine. They once defeated Texas College 42-4 and boast 15 players with a batting average above .300.
The dominance hasn’t stopped against the best at the NAIA level. The Pilots have scored two 6-3 wins and two 10-run triumphs.
