Teams | 8 |
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Format | Double elimination Page playoff |
Finals site | |
Champions | Kennesaw State (1st title) |
Winning coach | Mike Sansing |
MVP | Todd Kirby (P) (Kennesaw State) |
The 1994 NAIA World Series was the 38th 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 for a third and final time at Sec Taylor Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa.
Kennesaw State (48–14) defeated Southeastern Oklahoma State (50–15) in a single-game championship series, 2–0, to win the Owls' first NAIA World Series. It was also Southeastern's second consecutive loss in the NAIA World Series finals.
Kennesaw State pitcher Todd Kirby was named tournament MVP.
First round Losers to Championship Bracket, Second Round | Second round Losers to Championship Bracket, Third Round | Third round Both teams to Championship Bracket, Semifinals | |||||||||
Kennesaw State | 4 | ||||||||||
Point Loma Nazarene | 2 | ||||||||||
Kennesaw State | 6 | ||||||||||
Dallas Baptist | 4 | ||||||||||
Dallas Baptist | 11 | ||||||||||
Siena Heights | 0 | ||||||||||
Kennesaw State | 6 | ||||||||||
SE Oklahoma State | 5 | ||||||||||
SE Oklahoma State | 187 | ||||||||||
Wilmington (DE) | 2 | ||||||||||
SE Oklahoma State | 10 | ||||||||||
Saint Ambrose | 1 | ||||||||||
Coker | 3 | ||||||||||
Saint Ambrose | 5 |
Second round | Third round | Semifinals | Championship | ||||||||||||
Kennesaw State | 6 | ||||||||||||||
Saint Ambrose | 3 | Saint Ambrose | 2 | ||||||||||||
Point Loma Nazarene | 5 | Point Loma Nazarene | 2 | Kennesaw State | 2 | – | |||||||||
Siena Heights | 3 | SE Oklahoma State | 0 | ||||||||||||
SE Oklahoma State | 10 | ||||||||||||||
Dallas Baptist | 6 | Dallas Baptist | 9 | ||||||||||||
Wilmington (DE) | 0 | Coker | 2 | ||||||||||||
Coker | 5 | ||||||||||||||
The NAIA World Series is a double-elimination tournament, held since 1957, to determine the baseball champion of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Since 2000, the tournament has been held at Harris Field on the campus of Lewis–Clark State College (LCSC) in Lewiston, Idaho, having previously hosted from 1984 to 1991.
The Kennesaw State Owls fields 16 varsity athletics teams, competing for Kennesaw State University. After spending ten years in Division II's Peach Belt Conference, the university fully transitioned to Division I status in the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the beginning of the 2009–10 season. All of Kennesaw State's sports teams compete in the ASUN Conference through the 2023–24 school year. In July 2023, KSU will start a transition to the Football Bowl Subdivision in advance of its move to Conference USA (C-USA) in July 2024. Of its 18 varsity sports, only women's lacrosse is not sponsored by C-USA. The school mascot is Scrappy the Owl.
The Kennesaw State Owls baseball team represents Kennesaw State University, which is located in Kennesaw, Georgia. The Owls are an NCAA Division I college baseball program that competes in the ASUN Conference. They began competing in Division I in 2006 and joined the ASUN Conference the same season.
Mike Sansing is a former American college baseball coach, who a majority of his career served as head coach of the Kennesaw State Owls baseball team. He was named to that position prior to the 1992 season, when Kennesaw State was an NAIA team. He led the Owls as they joined the NCAA's Division II in 1994, and in 2005 began the process to elevate the program to Division I, completed for the 2010 season.
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