The second ranked LSU baseball team leaves for College Station today as they will play Texas A-and-M this weekend. Left fielder Derek Curiel has reached base in his last seven plate appearances after seeing his season-long consecutive games on base streak end in Saturday’s loss to Tennessee. D-1 baseball-dot-com’s Kendall Rogers says Curiel might be the best freshman position player in college baseball…

Cut 19 (19) “…very talented”

Curiel is hitting .380 on the season with six home runs and 42 RBs.

Nicholls lost its third in a row last night, falling to South Alabama two to nothing and Louisiana Tech’s game against Arkansas Pine Bluff was ruled a no contest because weather interrupted the game in the fifth inning and they could not re-start.

LSU women’s basketball lost a recruiting battle with UCONN for a standout player in the transfer portal. Six-foot-four Serah Williams has chosen the Huskies over the Lady Tigers. The three-year starter at Wisconsin, averaged 19 points, ten rebounds and two blocks per game last season for the Badgers.

LSU men’s basketball has added a six-foot-seven wing player out of the transfer portal, Pablo Tamba. The native of Spain averaged 11 points and five rebounds a game last year at U-C Davis.

The Southland Softball Tournament gets underway today…McNeese is the number one seed, while Southeastern is the two seed. Half of the bracket is playing in Lake Charles and the other half is in Hammond, the winners of two brackets will meet in a championship series next week.