LSUS Pilots to return to campus
early Friday evening 05/29/03

LSUS Athletic Director Doug Robinson said in a telephone conversation Thursday afternoon that the LSUS Pilots will return to campus from the NAIA World Series with their national tournament third place win tomorrow (Friday, May 30) between 6 and 6:30 p.m. The team will take a bus from Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport and come to the parking lot south of the Health and Physical Education Building.

The campus and the community is invited and encouraged to greet the team and congratulate the players on their outstanding accomplishments this season: A 52-24 record (an all-time school high number of wins), winning the NAIA Region XIII Championship and the Atlantic South Super Regional Championship, and finishing in third place in its first-ever appearance in the NAIA World Series. In finishing third, the Pilots lost twice to the No. 1 seed in the tournament (Oklahoma City University has also been No. 1 in the nation all season), but blew out the No. 2 seed, 14-4, to reach the Final Four.

We will issue another advisory tomorrow afternoon after the team arrives at DFW and give a more definite arrival time in Shreveport.