LSU Shreveport baseball finishes perfect 59-0

LSU Shreveport became the archetypal assemblage shot squad connected grounds to spell unbeaten, finishing 59-0 erstwhile it won the NAIA title successful Lewiston, Idaho.

The Pilots' cleanable play ended with a 13-7 triumph implicit Southeastern (Florida) connected Friday nighttime and gave the 10,000-student schoolhouse successful northwest Louisiana its archetypal nationalist rubric successful immoderate sport.

For 25 years LSU Shreveport has been 1 of the apical programs successful the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, which governs sports astatine 241 mostly tiny colleges crossed the country.

The Pilots person appeared successful the NAIA nationalist tourney each twelvemonth since 2005 and the NAIA World Series successful 2021, 2022 and 2025. They're 270-49 successful six seasons nether manager Brad Neffendorf, including 142-13 successful Red River Athletic Conference play.

LSU Shreveport played lone 4 games decided by 1 tally this season, ranked 2nd successful the NAIA with 11.3 runs per crippled and 3rd with a .361 batting average. The Pilots' 2.38 ERA was much than a tally amended than the next-closest team, and they led the federation with a .982 fielding percentage.

Josh Gibson, astatine .436, was 1 of 3 players connected the squad to bat amended than .400, and pitcher Isaac Rohde struck retired an NAIA-leading 146 and had a 2.09 ERA portion going 16-0.

The Pilots broke the NAIA-record winning percent of .935, acceptable erstwhile Mount Vernon Nazarene (Ohio) went 43-3 successful 1996.

The NCAA apical single-season winning percentages are .914 by Arizona State (64-6 successful 1972) successful Division I, .939 by Savannah State of Georgia (46-3 successful 2000) successful Division II and .978 by Trinity of Connecticut (45-1 successful 2008) successful Division III.