Hornets to return to Lynchburg with 1st-ever baseball championship, celebrate on campus

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — The Lynchburg Hornets will be bringing some hardware back to campus on Friday night.

Lynchburg (48-8) defeated Johns Hopkins, 7-6, in the deciding game three of the Division 3 National Championship in Iowa to win the program's first national championship.

The team is expected to land at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport at 5:30 p.m. to make the drive back to the University of Lynchburg campus.

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According to the school, the team will make it back to campus around 8:30 p.m. to ring the Victory Bell! They will also get a police escort to campus where the school has been invited to celebrate.

This triumph marks the fourth national championship title for a Lynchburg program. The women's soccer team achieved Lynchburg's inaugural national championship in 2014, while the equestrian program secured back-to-back NCEA single-discipline titles in 2022 and 2023.