Maui Ahuna is still along for Tennessee baseball’s wild postseason ride.

Ahuna, the Volunteers’ shortstop from Hilo, went 3-for-5 with a run scored in UT’s 6-4 comeback win over Stanford in an elimination game of the College World Series in Omaha, Neb., on Monday.

Ahuna has hit safely in the last five UT postseason games. UT’s leadoff hitter recorded singles in the first, fifth and eighth innings to match his season high for hits in a game.

At multiple points in the 2023 postseason — the SEC tournament, the NCAA super regional and CWS — Tennessee (44-21) lost its opening game but found a way to play another day.

UT’s win to knock out Stanford after facing a 4-0 deficit in the fifth inning, aided by pitcher Chase Burns' six innings of scoreless relief, set up another elimination game Tuesday against fifth-seeded LSU at 1 p.m. on ESPN. The winner of that game gets top-seeded Wake Forest on Wednesday in the first of what would need to be two meetings in order to get past the Demon Deacons for a spot in the CWS Finals.

Ahuna, a Hilo High alumnus who played the last two years at Kansas, is batting .308 for the season. His eighth home run of the season, on June 12 against Southern Miss in the super regionals, was the exclamation point on the Vols’ victory to clinch its second CWS appearance in three years.

Brian McInnis covers the state's sports scene for Spectrum News Hawaii. He can be reached at brian.mcinnis@charter.com.