Teams | 8 |
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Format | Single elimination, with consolation bracket |
Finals site | |
Champions | Sul Ross State (1st title) |
MVP | Frank Willis (Rollins) |
The 1957 NAIA World Series was the inaugural edition of the annual tournament hosted by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics to determine the national champion of baseball among its member colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. [1]
The tournament was played at Kokernot Field in Alpine, Texas, near the campus of Sul Ross State College.
Sul Ross State defeated Rollins in the championship game, 8–7, to win the inaugural NAIA World Series. Rollins player Frank Willis, however, was named tournament MVP.
The tournament featured eight teams in a single-elimination style tournament, with all first-round losers shifted into a secondary consolation bracket.
Fifth place | Consolation semifinals | First round | Semifinals | Final | ||||||||||||||
Sul Ross State | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
William Jewell | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
William Jewell | 8 | Sul Ross State | 8 | |||||||||||||||
Lincoln Memorial | 11 | Buena Vista | 6 | |||||||||||||||
Buena Vista | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
Lincoln Memorial | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
Lincoln Memorial | 5 | Sul Ross State | 8 | |||||||||||||||
Southwestern State | 9 | Rollins | 7 | |||||||||||||||
Western Illinois State | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
Southwestern State (OK) | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
Southwestern State | 3 | Western Illinois State | 4 | Third place | ||||||||||||||
Ozarks | 0 | Rollins | 7 | |||||||||||||||
Rollins | 9 | Buena Vista | 6 | |||||||||||||||
Ozarks | 7 | Western Illinois State | 14 | |||||||||||||||
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic scholarships to its student athletes. For the 2021–22 season, it had 252 member institutions, of which two are in British Columbia, one in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the rest in the continental United States, with over 77,000 student-athletes participating. The NAIA, whose headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri, sponsors 27 national championships. The CBS Sports Network, formerly called CSTV, serves as the national media outlet for the NAIA. In 2014, ESPNU began carrying the NAIA Football National Championship.
Sul Ross State University (SRSU) is a public university in Alpine, Texas. The main campus is the primary institution of higher education serving the nineteen-county Big Bend region of far West Texas. Branch campuses, branded as Rio Grande College, are located in Del Rio, Uvalde, Eagle Pass, and Castroville.
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