GAME 4: LCSC takes a tumble in its return to Series

May 23—Let's call it May Madness. On a day in which the three top seeds who played before them to open the Avista NAIA World Series lost, the third-seeded Lewis-Clark State Warriors failed to buck that trend, falling to the eighth-seeded Tennessee Wesleyan Bulldogs 12-4 on Friday at Harris Field in Lewiston. "When you've had the opportunity to play in postseason games, you know what's on the line, and you know what it takes to keep advancing," Tennessee Wesleyan coach Billy Berry said.

"The message really wasn't any different tonight than it was, you know, the last three weeks. " In the Series for the third straight year, the TWU Bulldogs turned to their ace pitcher, Justin Jackson, to harass the hosts with 6 2/3 three-run innings. The Warriors, back in the World Series for the first time since 2023, had to wait an extra two hours and 26 minutes to take the field on the heels of a series of marathon games that each lasted around three hours and led to an opening ceremony just after dusk.

In each of those games, the lower seed — No. 7 Mid-America Christian (Okla. ), No.

10 William Carey (Miss. ) and No. 9 IU Southeast (Ind.