The 2024 NAIA baseball tournament was the 67th edition of the NAIA baseball championship. The 46-team tournament began on May 13 with Opening Round games across ten different sites and concluded with the
2024 NAIA World Series in
Lewiston, Idaho
Lewiston is a city and the county seat of Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States, in the state's north central region. It is the second-largest city in the northern Idaho region, behind Coeur d'Alene, and ninth-largest in the state. Lewiston is ...
that began on May 24 and ended on May 31.
After losing their first game of the World Series,
Hope International (CA) rattled off five straight victories capped off by defeating
Tennessee Wesleyan 14–6 in the championship game for their first title in program history.
The 46 participating teams were selected from 191 eligible NAIA teams. The World Series host and 29 teams were awarded automatic bids as either champions and/or runners-up of their conferences, and 16 teams were selected at-large by the National Selection Committee. Teams were then placed into one of ten pre-determined Opening Round sites, with six sites consisting of five teams and four sites consisting of four teams, each of which is conducted via a double-elimination tournament. The winners of each of the Opening Round sites participated in the NAIA World Series.
Tournament procedure
A total of 46 teams entered the tournament, with
Lewis–Clark State receiving an automatic bid into the Opening Round as World Series host. 29 automatic bids were determined by either winning their conference's regular season championship, conference tournament, and/or conference tournament runner-up. The other 16 bids were at-large, with selections determined by the NAIA Baseball National Selection Committee.
Opening round hosts
On May 1, the NAIA announced the ten opening round host sites, which were played from May 13–16.
Bids
Source:
Automatic
At–Large
Opening Round
Source:
Fayette Bracket
Hosted by Central Methodist (MO) at Estes Baseball Field
Hattiesburg Bracket
Hosted by William Carey (MS) at Milton Wheeler Field
Kingsport Bracket
Hosted by Visit Kingsport at
Hunter Wright Stadium
Hunter Wright Stadium is a baseball park in Kingsport, Tennessee, named for the popular multi-term former mayor. It is the home field of Kingsport Axmen of the summer collegiate Appalachian League. It was previously home to the Kingsport Mets, a ...
Lawrenceville Bracket
Hosted by Georgia Gwinnett at Grizzly Baseball Complex
Lewiston Bracket
Hosted by Lewis–Clark State (ID) at
Harris Field
Lincoln Bracket
Hosted by Doane (NE) at Sherman Field
Shreveport Bracket
Hosted by LSU–Shreveport at Pilot Field (May 13 and 16) and
BPCC Baseball Field (May 14 and 15)
Upland Bracket
Hosted by Taylor (IN) at Winterholter Field
Waleska Bracket
Hosted by Reinhardt (GA) at Ken White Baseball Field
Williamsburg Bracket
Hosted by Cumberlands (KY) at Doyle Buhl Stadium
NAIA World Series
The NAIA World Series is being held at
Harris Field in
Lewiston, Idaho
Lewiston is a city and the county seat of Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States, in the state's north central region. It is the second-largest city in the northern Idaho region, behind Coeur d'Alene, and ninth-largest in the state. Lewiston is ...
. This is the first time since
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
that the NAIA World Series did not feature
Lewis–Clark State.
Participants
Bracket
Source:
Preliminary Bracket
Championship Bracket
Game Results
All game times are listed in
Pacific Daylight Time
The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico. Places in this zone observe standard time by subtracting eight hours from Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−08:00) ...
(
UTC–07:00).
Preliminary Bracket
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Championship Bracket
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Championship Game
See also
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2024 NAIA softball tournament
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2024 NCAA Division I baseball tournament
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2024 NCAA Division II baseball tournament
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2024 NCAA Division III baseball tournament
Notes
References
{{NAIA World Series
NAIA baseball tournament
2024 NAIA baseball tournament