The LSU women’s basketball team cruised past Oklahoma in its first game of the SEC tournament with a 112-78 victory this afternoon. MiLaysia Fulwiley and Flau’jae Johnson led the team with 22 and 21 points as LSU posted their 14th 100-point win of the season, one shy of the NCAA record. The Lady Tigers will advance to a rematch with top-seeded South Carolina tomorrow at 3:30. LSU dropped a disappointing 79-72 home loss to the Gamecocks in their only meeting this season, and Kim Mulkey is 0-and-6 against South Carolina since arriving in Baton Rouge.
The second-ranked LSU baseball team will look to bounce back from its pair of disappointing midweek upsets in a series hosting Sacramento state this weekend. The Hornets are off to a sluggish 3-and-9 start to the season and have lost their last five straight. First pitch in the box tonight is set for 6:30
The Merryville Panthers took home their first girls basketball state championship in school history with a 49-46 win over Midland in the Division IV non-select finals.
Louisiana Tech is suing conference USA seeking an injunction to allow the school to depart for the Sun Belt before the upcoming football season. LA Tech did not notify CUSA of plans to leave before the required 14-month notice and the two sides have negotiated terms of departure since this summer. Lincoln Parish Journal publisher Malcolm Butler says the current holdup is around two-million-dollars’ worth of NCAA distributions and who is entitled to it.
The Louisiana Tech baseball team dropped its fifth straight game Wednesday night after falling 8-2 to Arkansas State. Coach Lane Burroughs says the Bulldogs have to continue to go to work while putting the losses behind them.