MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Faulkner is headed to the 2022 NAIA Baseball World Series after beating Reinhardt 11-8 to complete an unbeaten run through the Montgomery Bracket of the NAIA Opening Round. Earlier in the day, Loyola fell to LSU-Shreveport to set up a winner-take-all game in the Shreveport Bracket Thursday.
Noteworthy
- It will be the ninth-straight trip to Lewiston and 10th overall for the Eagles
- Faulkner won the 2013 World Series Championship, and has four other top-three finishes
Inside The Box Score
- Sammy de la Cruz and Juan Trinidad combined for four walks and six runs scored from the top two spots in the Faulkner lineup
- Alex Arauz went 2-for-4 with four RBIs and Justice Lucas finished 3-for-4 with two driven in
How It Happened
- Faulkner started by scoring four runs in the first thanks to five walks, and never looked back
- Arauz’s two-run single in the eighth ended up being the decisive scores
- Reinhardt scored in seven different innings, including each of the last three, but had only one inning with multiple runs scored
- Reinhardt stranded two runners in three of the final four frames