A big four-game series starts on Friday for 13th ranked Louisiana Tech as they host Southern Miss. The Golden Eagles have won the last two Conference USA baseball tournament championships. But trail the Bulldogs for first place in the West Division this year by a game and a half. Tech took three of four from Southern Miss earlier this season and Coach Lane Burroughs knows they will be ready to play…
Cut 17 (18) “…retain it.”
The Golden Eagles had won seven in a row before getting shut out by South Alabama on Tuesday.

LSU will start its SEC series tomorrow night against 11th ranked South Carolina. The Gamecocks have won three in a row and coming off a series victory over Missouri. South Carolina has the third-best team ERA in the SEC and Wes Clarke leads the league in home runs with 15.

Southern and Grambling are preparing for Saturday’s 47th annual Bayou Classic which will take place in Shreveport. The Jaguars are three and one in this unique spring season, while the Tigers are 0-and-3 and they have not played since March 20th because of COVID issues. Southern Coach Dawson Odums knows the Tigers will be hungry for a victory…
cut 19 (13) “….for us”
Kick off from Independence Stadium is at 1:30.

Slidell Senator Sharon Hewitt has a bill waiting to be heard in the ongoing regular session that would require the National Anthem to be played before all sporting events at state-funded facilities. Hewitt says the Anthem is a unifying force and she recalls her first trip to a sporting event following nine-eleven…
cut 24 (08) “….our lungs”
Earlier in the NBA season, the Dallas Mavericks were not playing the national anthem before their games until Commissioner Adam Silver ordered them to do so.