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LSU wins College World Series as SEC’s national title streak reaches six

AP photo by Rebecca S. Gratz / LSU baseball players begin a dogpile as they celebrate their 5-3 win against Coastal Carolina to complete a sweep of the College World Series finals Sunday in Omaha, Neb. LSU won the best-of-three championship series opener 1-0 on Saturday.
AP photo by Rebecca S. Gratz / LSU baseball players begin a dogpile as they celebrate their 5-3 win against Coastal Carolina to complete a sweep of the College World Series finals Sunday in Omaha, Neb. LSU won the best-of-three championship series opener 1-0 on Saturday. AP photo by Rebecca S. Gratz / LSU baseball players begin a dogpile as they celebrate their 5-3 win against Coastal Carolina to complete a sweep of the College World Series finals Sunday in Omaha, Neb. LSU won the best-of-three championship series opener 1-0 on Saturday.

By ERIC OLSON / The Associated Press 7 min read

OMAHA, Neb. — For LSU’s heralded baseball program, the 2024 season ended with the Tigers not even making it to Omaha as one of the eight teams in the College World Series, and there were few players of note from that roster coming back in 2025.

So it’s little wonder coach Jay Johnson couldn’t have foreseen the national championship this group of tenacious Tigers is taking back to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“It was probably a year ago today,” he said, “we had 12 players in our program that actually played on the field for us in 2024. Twelve.”

Then, quoting his mentor and LSU baseball patriarch Skip Bertman, Johnson said: “We ended up with some really good fortune.”

LSU knocked previously unbeaten Coastal Carolina ace Jacob Morrison out of the game with a four-run fourth inning Sunday at Charles Schwab Field Omaha, and the Tigers won their second national title in three years with a 5-3 victory to close out the best-of-three CWS finals.