Teams | 8 |
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Format | Double elimination Page playoff |
Finals site | |
Champions | Lewis–Clark State (9th title) |
Winning coach | Ed Cheff |
MVP | Troy Silva (1B) (Lewis–Clark State) |
The 1996 NAIA World Series was the 40th 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 at Lewis and Clark Park in Sioux City, Iowa.
Lewis–Clark State (53–11) defeated Saint Ambrose (42–19) in a single-game championship series, 9–0, to win the Warriors' ninth NAIA World Series and first since 1992.
Lewis–Clark State first baseman Troy Silva 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 | |||||||||
Cumberland (TN) | 2 | ||||||||||
St. Thomas (FL) | 1 | ||||||||||
Cumberland | 4 | ||||||||||
Lewis–Clark State | 9 | ||||||||||
Geneva | 1 | ||||||||||
Lewis–Clark State | 2 | ||||||||||
Lewis–Clark State | 3 | ||||||||||
Saint Ambrose | 1 | ||||||||||
Ohio Dominican (7 inn.) | 12 | ||||||||||
Oklahoma Baptist | 2 | ||||||||||
Ohio Dominican | 5 | ||||||||||
Saint Ambrose | 16 | ||||||||||
Saint Ambrose | 2 | ||||||||||
St. Mary's (TX) | 0 |
Second round Losers eliminated | Third round Losers eliminated | Semifinals Losers eliminated | Championship | ||||||||||||
Lewis–Clark State | 4 | ||||||||||||||
Ohio Dominican | 4 | St. Thomas | 2 | ||||||||||||
St. Thomas | 4 | St. Thomas | 7 | Lewis–Clark State | 9 | – | |||||||||
Geneva | 3 | Saint Ambrose | 0 | – | |||||||||||
Saint Ambrose | 9 | ||||||||||||||
Cumberland | 3 | Cumberland | 8 | ||||||||||||
Oklahoma Baptist | 0 | St. Mary's | 1 | ||||||||||||
St. Mary's | 7 | ||||||||||||||
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.
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