Enid, Okla. — The UConn-Avery Point baseball team finally ran out of comebacks.

The Pointers lost to top-ranked LSU-Eunice, 16-14 in 13 innings, in an elimination game at the NJCAA Division II World Series on Friday.

Eunice, which had leads of 4-0, 11-6 and 14-11, finally put the game away with two runs in the top of the 13th.

"This game is right up there with any game I've ever been involved in,'' said Avery Point coach Roger Bidwell, who completed his 34th season. "What we've done out here was really special. LSU is the No. 1 team in the country, but our guys can compete with anybody out here.''

The fourth-place finish is the Pointers' second-best in six World Series appearances. Only a runnerup finish in 2010 — to LSU-Eunice — was a longer run than this team.

Avery Point (37-13) started the season 8-7, with little hint of what was to come.

"We just got better as the year went on and we really peaked in the end,'' said Bidwell. "If we had to play (Saturday) we would have found a way to make it a game.''

Avery Point, which rallied twice on Thursday to stay alive in the double-elimination tourney, was down 4-0 after three innings and 5-1 heading to the bottom of the fifth.

The Pointers took a 6-5 lead with five runs in the bottom of the fifth. Eunice tied it with a run in the top of the sixth and added five in the top of the seventh for an 11-6 lead.

Again, Avery Point came back. Jordan Kowalski's two-run single highlighted a five-run bottom of the seventh, which tied the game at 11-11.

Eunice appeared to finally put Avery Point away, scoring three times in the top of the eighth to take a 14-11 lead. Then Eunice brought in its ace, Mitch Sewald, and he pitched a scoreless eighth.

"(Sewald) was consistently throwing 95-96 and topping out at 98,'' Bidwell said.

But the Pointers got three runs off Sewald, two of which were unearned, to send the game to extra innings. Kowalski scored on a bases-loaded walk to Garrett DeLotto, and Avery Santos' two-run single tied the game.

Andrew Hinckley came in to pitch for Avery Point in the eighth, and he an Sewald matched zeros in the 10th, 11th and 12th before Eunice scored twice off Hinckley in the 13th.

Sewald got the win, striking out nine with one walk over 6 1-3 innings and Hinckley took the loss. Hinckley (5-3) allowed four hits over 5 2-3 innings, striking out six with one walk.

Izzy Davila, Kowalski, Hinckley and Santos had three hits each for the Pointers, Davila and Hinckley scored three runs each, and Joel Acosta and Santos drove in three runs each.