LEWISTON, Idaho — The LSU Shreveport Pilots set another record, and are now one win away from their biggest goal.

Ryan Davenport went 3-for-4 with four RBIs, Ian Montz was 2-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs scored, and LSU Shreveport routed Hope International 14-4 on Thursday to advance to the championship game of the NAIA World Series.

LSU Shreveport (58-0) set the all-time consecutive wins record across all levels of college baseball with its 58th straight victory. Howard College, a two-year program, had held the record of 57 straight wins since 2007.

LSUS broke the NAIA record of 41 consecutive wins in early April, and the four-year record of 46, in April. The NCAA Division I record is 34.

“These guys, we’ve gotten so close-knit through the year. I wouldn’t trade this group for anybody. We play for each other. The 58-0 is a testament to how well we’ve bonded and how close we are,” Davenport said. “58-0, I don’t know if anyone sat there and was fully convinced that was going to happen. But we knew that if we played together we weren’t going to be the ones that beat ourselves at the end of the day and we haven’t let that happen.”

LSUS will play Southeastern University Friday at 8:30 p.m. and can win its first national championship with victory No. 59. If Southeastern wins, the teams will play again Saturday at 8:30 p.m.

“That’s just more motivation to wake up tomorrow and get after it,” Davenport said.

The Pilots jumped on Hope International (48-10) early, scoring two runs on Jose Sallorin’s second-inning single and then five more in the third inning to take control. Montz and Davenport each hit a two-run single in the third-inning rally.

Davenport hit another two-run single in the seventh inning to put the Pilots ahead 9-4 and they pulled away from there.

Diego Aragon also had three RBIs and Anthony Swenda was 2-for-3 with a double and two runs scored for LSUS. Former Warren Central star Vantrel Reed was 0-for-5.

Cobe Reeves started on the mound and had nine strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.

“We had a rough start, not scoring a run in the first inning. Then we came back, we did our jobs, we got runners on, we got them in, we executed what we needed to,” Davenport said.