LSU Shreveport ties another record with 57th straight win
Published 8:43 am Thursday, May 29, 2025
- LSU Shreveport baseball player Vantrel Reed (2), a former Warren Central star, celebrates with teammate Ryan Davenport after the team scored a run in an NAIA World Series game against Southeastern University on Wednesday. (LSU Shreveport Athletics)
LEWISTON, Idaho — LSU Shreveport has officially reached the stage where every victory can be classified as historic.
Former Warren Central star Vantrel Reed went 2-for-3 with one RBI and one run scored, Isaac Rohde had 10 strikeouts while pitching a four-hit shutout, and LSU Shreveport beat Southeastern 10-0 in a winners’ bracket game at the NAIA baseball World Series on Wednesday.
The Pilots improved to 57-0 to tie Howard College (Texas) for the all-level collegiate baseball record for consecutive victories. If they can beat Hope International in the semifinals on Thursday night they’ll break the record, and the next win after that would give the program its first national championship.
LSUS beat Hope International 6-3 on Monday.
“We just treated this game like another game, another day. We just came out and played like we’re used to doing. We just try to do the little things and thank God we came out with a victory today,” said LSUS shortstop Jose Sallorin, who was 2-for-2 with three RBIs. “We just come out and play. We don’t even talk about it, we don’t even think about it. We just come out each day and play like we’re 0-0.”
LSU Shreveport jumped on Southeastern (46-14) for five runs in the bottom of the first inning. Josh Gibson hit an RBI double, while Sallorin and Jackson Syring each hit RBI singles.
Anthony Swenda homered, Austin Gomm hit a sacrifice fly, and Reed an RBI single in the fourth to make it 8-0, and that was plenty for Rohde.
The left-hander retired 17 of the first 18 batters he faced, before giving up a pair of two-out singles in the sixth inning. Jon Paul Pennella, went from first to third on a hit by Charlie Collins and was the only Southeastern runner to make it past second base.
“I felt great today. I got a good recovery in, came out firing, and I felt awesome,” Rohde said. “We put the pressure on them right away and absolutely dominated ever since.”