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LEWISTON, Idaho – Brandon Mooney went 4-for-4 with two doubles, a home run, and two runs scored, helping Loyola (La.) top British Columbia 12-9, earning the Wolf Pack a spot in Monday’s elimination game at 11 a.m., in the 2025 Avista NAIA World Series.

Six Loyola batters had multi-hit games, including Myles Liggans, who was 3-for-5, and Garrett Felix, who had two hits and three RBIs. Kyle Yip was 4-for-5 for UBC, and David Krahn was 3-for-5 with three runs batted in.

British Columbia led twice – in the first inning and again in the third – but a three-run Loyola fourth was the cushion the Wolf Pack needed, and Loyola answered every time UBC posed a threat.

Both leadoff hitters went for extra bases to begin the game, as Russell Young’s double led to a UBC run in the top of the first, and Mooney sent the first pitch he saw over the wall in right. Loyola added another run on Marcus Steen’s single to center, taking a 2-1 lead, and a third run came home when Steen scored on a squeeze bunt off the bat of Landon Manson.

Anthony Fernandez kept the two-out first-inning rally going for Loyola, singling home Manson, and the Wolf Pack jumped out to a three-run lead.

Jonny McGill trimmed the Wolf Pack lead to a run in the third, blasting a two-run home run to right center, and the Thunderbirds took the lead back when Krahn singled in Yip, who had an RBI single earlier in the inning.  

Cole Romero brought a run in for Loyola in the third, singling to center to even the game, and in the fourth inning, Fernandez led off with a solo home run into the bleachers in left, the third home run of the game and the second by the Wolf Pack to make it 6-5.

Loyola extended the lead in the bottom of the fourth on Felix’s two-run, two-out single to make it 8-5, but UBC did get one back when Krahn knocked in Yip for the second time in three innings.

UBC continued to edge its way back, and after Loyola added an insurance run in the sixth, David Draayers singled down the left-field line for UBC in the seventh, part of a two-run inning that had the Thunderbirds back within a run, 9-8.  Loyola would answer, on a run-scoring single by Romero and an RBI bunt for Drew Lee. UBC added a ninth-inning run, but on a double play, and the Thunderbirds exhausted outs two batters later.

UBC ends its season at 39-19, and Loyola (42-17) advances to Monday’s elimination game against Cumberlands (Ky.) at 11 a.m. PT. Monday’s game, and all games in the 2025 Avista NAIA World Series, will air on the NAIA Network and Urban Edge Network at www.naia.org/watch.