The last one leaving The Jeaux can get the lights, the party is over.

Five outs from a third consecutive Southland Conference championship Friday night, the roof collapsed on the Cowboys over the next 11 innings.

Playing their worst game of the postseason, McNeese State saw its year of records and milestones and dream of a three-peat come to a sudden halt Saturday night in Joe Miller Ballpark before 1,225 fans.

Southeastern Louisiana, which a year ago saw McNeese claim the SLC crown on its home turf, got to flip the script with an 11-7 victory in the finale of the best-of-three championship series.

The Cowboys, whose season ended at 34-23, never got into the game as the Lions (30-29) scored times in the first inning. Any comeback was stopped in part by four McNeese errors, three of which led to unearned runs. There were also nine walks and a pair of hit batters.

The Lions kept on scoring against a tired Cowboys bullpen, adding three runs in the top of the ninth for good measure.

Lions slugger Preston Faulker was named the tournament MVP, going 9-for-14 in the final series after hitting four home runs the week before during bracket play. Shea Thomas and Tyler Finke each drove in four runs in the deciding game for the Lions.

SLU will move on to the NCAA regionals while McNeese will start the building for next season and think of what might have been.

Brad Burckel made 3-for-5, gave Cowboys fans one last reason to cheer with a two-out, two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to close the scoring. It was Burckel’s 10th homer of the season and second of the night.

The Lions scored fast off McNeese starter Chance Stone, who lasted a third of an inning. It was Stone’s third consecutive start in which he did not get out of the first inning.

Finke’s one-out double down the line in right was the big blow, scoring two and putting McNeese in position of playing catchup the rest of the night.

After another Lions run in the fourth McNeese broke an 11-inning scoring drought when Josh Leslie drove home Burckel from second on a single to center.

Burckel started the inning with a ringing double. However, Leslie was out at second trying to stretch the hit into a double and stopping McNeese momentum.

Burckel hit his first homer sixth, a solo blast to left. The shot came, however, after the Lions added two runs in the top of the inning on two hits and three walks by Cameron Foster, making the score 6-2.