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Lewiston secures extension to host NAIA World Series through 2024

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After years of hosting a successful World Series, the NAIA announced on Friday that the championship event will remain in its current home of Lewiston in an extension of its host contract.

Lewis-Clark State and Harris Field have been the home of the spring classic for the last 19 years. The new agreement will extend that partnership through the 2024 season.

With the new agreement comes a new format as Lewis-Clark State will add to its hosting responsibilities with the addition of a 10th NAIA National Championship Opening Round site.

A special NAIA Baseball Task Force has been working for over two years to develop the new format.

In the old format, the host of the World Series would get an automatic bid directly to the championship final site. In the new agreement, however, Lewis-Clark State would need to win the NAIA National Championship Opening Round tournament, which it will host annually, in order to qualify for World Series play. The new format will begin in the spring of 2022.