The LSU Tigers won their second national championship in three years on Sunday with their 5-3 victory over Coastal Carolina in the College World Series finals at Omaha, Nebraska.
The Tigers, now 53-15 on the season, had a two-game sweep of the Chanticleers, who came into the finals on a 26 game winning streak.
For Coastal Carolina, the game on Sunday was marred when their head coach, Kevin Schnall, and their first base coach, Matt Schilling, were ejected in the bottom of the first inning. The NCAA later explained that Schnall had been arguing balls and strikes. He was given a verbal warning and then was tossed when he wouldn’t stop arguing. Schilling got into the argument also and he was tossed for certain comments he made to the umpires.
LSU’s win means the Southeastern Conference has its sixth straight national title in baseball and 11th title in 16 years. The 2025 championship was LSU's 8th overall and second most all-time behind Southern California's 12. LSU has won all 8 of it championships in the past 34 years.
LSU coach Jay Johnson became the first NCAA Division I head coach to win two titles in his first four years at a school, having accomplished it at LSU and also at Arizona.
Coastal Carolina won the national title in 2016.
LSU tied the game at 1-1 in the third inning on Ethan Frey's RBI double and then the Tigers went up 5-1 in the fourth inning on two-run singles by Chris Stanfield and Derek Curiel.
Coastal Carolina fought back, coming within 5-3 in the seventh inning against LSU’s starting pitcher Anthony Eyanson when Coastal Carolina batter Wells Sykes hit his fourth home run of the 2025 season.
Eyanson retired after that homer and Chase Shores came out for his fourth appearance of the CWS. LSU’s 6-foot-8 right-hander threw at 100 mph with his fastball while shutting down the first five batters he faced before Dean Mihos, who had a home run in the second inning, hit a single in the ninth inning.
At that point, with LSU holding its 5-3 lead, the Tiger fans were on their feet and chanting "L-S-U, L-S-U." Shores then struck out Ty Dooley and he got Sykes to hit a grounder into a double play to end the game.
LSU was the new national champion and the players celebrated in the traditional dog pile on the field.
