The team knew it would be a challenge going on the road against a top team in the nation. Despite coming off a rough loss at home, snapping their 55-game home win streak, head coach Brad Neffendorf described the week of preparation heading into the weekend matchup with the Jaguars as “Really good”. Neffendorf believed it was their “best week of prep”. He also believed the weekend against Texas A&M-Victoria was close throughout and could have gone either way. 

The weekend started off well for the Pilots. In game 1, David Hankins, who came off a rough outing against Our Lady of the Lake, settled back in against the Jaguars with 5 solid innings of 3 run baseball. For Neffendorf, it boiled down to the fact that things just did not swing in the Pilots' favor. For example, in the first inning of game 1, Makana Olaso nearly had a 3-run homer. However, the ball just stayed in the yard, and LSUS only got one run across. Shreveport went into the bottom of the 5th with a 5-1 lead, but A&M-Victoria found a way to come back and survive game 1. 

In the second game, Brock Lucas took the mound and had a hard-fought start. He made it into the 7th inning with just 3 runs given up, all in the 3rd inning. The game was tied in the bottom of the 7th, and with a walk, sacrifice bunt, a hit-by-pitch, and infield single, the Jaguars walked it off. In game 3, the Pilots were backed by a strong start from Robert Lastra who had spent the whole season in the pen to this point. Both teams scored all their runs in one inning. The Jaguars put up a 5-spot in the 4th, and Shreveport made a late effort in the 9th to come back, going as far as bringing the go-ahead run to the plate in Dorien Jackson, but fell short. 

Neffendorf has high hopes for the final 3 weeks of the season, stating that the Pilots have not played to their full potential this season and have still found a way to go 29-7. "Where I still believe if we can stay healthy, get healthy and we click, it might be at the right time to where everybody could see it- we could be extremely dangerous.” Neffendorf says this is the right time to start playing complete baseball during these final few weeks of the regular season, heading into the conference tournament and regional tournament. 

On April 2 and 3, the Pilots will take on a Southwest team that does not look great in terms of their record, but Neffendorf says they can put up a fight and "have always disrupted somebody's season that’s at the top” and potentially shake up the standings. With how things have gone and where Shreveport is in the season, it is an important series that the reigning champs must come out on top in.