There’s not a much better way a team can start a game than what Lewis-Clark State did on Friday.
The ninth-seeded Warriors played the last game of Day 1 of the Avista NAIA World Series against the eighth-seeded Indiana Wesleyan Wildcats. The Warriors won 12-4 and played the first four innings of the contest dominantly at both the plate and the mound.
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