Teams | 8 |
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Format | Double elimination |
Finals site | |
Champions | Linfield (1st title) |
MVP | Stuart Young (P) (Linfield) |
The 1966 NAIA World Series was the tenth 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 Phil Welch Stadium in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Linfield defeated Lewis (IL) in the championship series, 15–4, to win the Wildcats' first NAIA World Series.
Linfield pitcher Stuart Young was named tournament MVP.
First round | Second round | Semifinals | National Championship | ||||||||||||||||
Guilford | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Linfield | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Linfield | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Lewis | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Lewis (IL) | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
New Haven | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
Linfield | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||
Southern | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Missouri Valley | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
New Mexico Highlands | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
Missouri Valley | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Southern | 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
Omaha | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
Southern | 9 | Linfield | 15 | ||||||||||||||||
Lewis | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
Consolation first round | Consolation second round | Consolation third round | Consolation fourth round | ||||||||||||||||
Missouri Valley | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Guilford | 7 | Guilford | 3 | Southern | 6 | ||||||||||||||
New Haven | 3 | Guilford | 6 | Lewis | 7 | ||||||||||||||
Lewis | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
Lewis | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||
New Mexico Highlands | 7 | New Mexico Highlands | 0 | ||||||||||||||||
Omaha | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
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 their student athletes. $1.3 billion in athletic scholarship financial aid is awarded to student athletes annually. For the 2023-24 season, it had 241 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 83,000 student-athletes participating. The NAIA, whose headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri, sponsors 28 national championships. 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.
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