There are concerns about the Tigers pitching outside of Paul Skenes, but LSU’s pitching staff looked good last night, holding Southeastern Louisiana to two hits in a ten to nothing shutout of the Lions. It’s the eighth shutout of the season for the Bayou Bengals, which leads the nation. But relief pitcher Garrett Edwards from Pitkin is done for the season as he needs reconstructive elbow surgery. LSU is at Auburn this weekend.

Northwestern State completed a two-game regular season sweep of Louisiana Tech by beating the Bulldogs ten to seven in eleven innings last night. The Demons also defeated Tech in extra innings on April fourth.

Todd Garvin was introduced as the new head football coach at West Monroe today. Garvin was an assistant coach at West Monroe for 16 years. The last two seasons he was the head coach at Ouachita Parish and the Lions beat the Rebels in 2021. Garvin is a 2001 graduate at Ouachita Parish and he played baseball at ULM.

A lot of college football players are jumping into the transfer portal when they don’t get immediate playing time, but backup LSU Quarterback Garrett Nussmeier remains a Tiger after deciding not to get into the transfer portal in the spring. On-3-dot-com’s Shea Dixon says Nussmeier has been committed to LSU from the beginning…
Cut 17 (15) “…never wavered.”

Meanwhile LSU assistant Brian Polian is leaving to become the athletic director at his alma mater, John Carroll University. Polian, who followed Coach Brian Kelly to LSU from Notre Dame, was the special teams coordinator last season but was moved to an off-field role 3 months ago. LSU’s kickoff and punt return units ranked near the bottom of the SEC in 2022.