LSU baseball has made it official by announcing the hirings of Jason Kelly as pitching coach and Dan Fitzgerald as recruiting coordinator. Kelly was at Arizona State last season and helped the Sun Devils reach the NCAA Tournament, despite numerous injuries to their pitching staff. Kelly was also named 2018 National Assistant Coach of the Year after helping Washington reach its first-ever College World Series. Fitzgerald has been at Dallas Baptist for the last nine seasons and he’s considered one of the top recruiters in the country.

Nicholls named Louisiana Tech associate head coach Mike Silva as its new head baseball coach today. Silva also oversaw the Bulldogs pitchers and helped Tech to its best ever season in program history this past year.

In basketball, the Ragin Cajuns leading scorer from last season, Cedric Russell, has reportedly committed to Ohio State. He averaged 17 points a game last season for U-L Lafayette.

A 14-year-old girl from Harvey won the Scripps National Spelling Bee last night becoming the first person from Louisiana to win the bee. Zaila Avant-garde is also the first African American winner of the 96-year-old tournament. She spelled Murraya correctly to win…
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Zaila told Good Morning America she studies 13-thousand words a day. The Jefferson Parish native also spelling is a hobby, but her true passion is basketball and she holds three Guinness World Records for dribbling multiple basketballs simultaneously.

Louisiana Tech football program has announced the signing of three transfers, including former West Virginia Quarterback Austin Kendall, who also spent three seasons at Oklahoma. Kendall was West Virginia’s primary starter in 2019 and threw for nearly two thousand yards and 12 touchdowns. Tech also signed former Vanderbilt running back Keyon Henry Brooks, who rushed for 746 yards in two seasons for the Commodores. And former Jacksonville State cornerback Jacquez Payton, who had three career interceptions for the Gamecocks