LSU Shreveport had lost only two Red River Athletic Conference baseball games this season among over two dozen played, a typical performance by the powerful Pilots.

They lost twice this weekend to Louisiana Christian’s upstart Wildcats,  who have surged into the RRAC Tournament championship game at 1 p.m. today.

Coach Mike Byrnes’ club stunned LSUS Sunday in 12 innings, 7-6 to reach today’s conference tourney final against Texas A&M-Texarkana in Sterlington.

The Wildcats topped Texarkana, previously perfect in the conference tourney, by 6-4 Sunday evening to force today’s winner-take-all final.

LCU is 31-19 overall while Texarkana stands at 25-25. The Eagles had a 19-11 RRAC regular-season record while the Wildcats were 17-13. LSUS won the conference race with a 28-2 regular-season league slate.

Harrison Waxley did everything and then some on Sunday, sending LSU Shreveport packing with a walk-off single in the first contest before making his first career collegiate pitching appearance in the nightcap, getting the start on the mound and giving his skipper a much-needed three full innings of one-run work in addition to a pair of strikeouts. The RRAC Freshman of the Year led the team by going 4-for-8 at the dish (.500) with an LCU-best four RBIs and two doubles on top of scoring twice, walking once, and registering a sacrifice fly.

In Sunday’s win over LSUS, Cy Fontenot stared down the fourth-ranked team in the country and did not blink nor waver, hurling five-and-two-thirds of two-run baseball to go along with nearly as many punchouts (5) as a combination of hits or walks allowed (6).

The Pilots slipped to 42-9 overall.

Byrnes’ boys are on the precipice of history as they sit just one win away from LCU’s first NAIA Regional baseball berth and conference championship since 1987 as well as the program’s first postseason appearance of any kind since the 2003 NCCAA World Series.