JOURNAL STAFF
The LSUS Pilots baseball team played five games in four days to survive the Shreveport Bracket and earn a return trip to the Avista NAIA World Seriers, but won’t have to rush to be ready for its first-round competition.
Action starts Friday as No. 4 seed LSUS takes on No. 5 seed Bellevue at 1:30 p.m. in Lewiston, Idaho.
The Pilots (51-6) fought through the loser’s bracket of their own regional. A 10th-inning, two-out walk-off Jaylin Turner home run Thursday lifted LSUS past Loyola (New Orleans) to send the program to its fifth World Series.
Bellevue (48-11) needed the if-necessary game in its own regional, bouncing back from a 16-2 loss to Concordia to score a 5-2 victory to go to the program’s 15th World Series.
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