1140 Sportscast 5/3

Taysom Hill and Jameis Winston will battle to replace Drew Brees as the Saints starting quarterback, but New Orleans has also added former Notre Dame signal caller Ian Book to the competition. The Saints selected Book in the fourth round. Coach Sean Payton likes that Book went 30-and-5 as a starter at Notre Dame…

Cut 18 (18) “he was there”

The Ragin Cajuns baseball team lost two out of three against Texas State in a weekend series.  Despite the tough weekend, the Cajuns are just one game back from Texas Arlington for first place in the Sun Belt west.

The 16th ranked Louisiana Tech baseball team won a school record 1oth straight road game after they beat Middle Tennessee 6-1 yesterday.  Steele Netterville hit his 7th homerun of the year.

The LSU baseball team dropped its series with number one ranked Arkansas, but finished out the weekend with a 5 to 4 win over the Razorbacks.  LSU will host Southern tonight and the final SEC three series are against teams not ranked in the Top 25. But coach Paul Mainieri doesn’t see an easy road ahead…

Cut 17 (24) “about it”

Former LSU golfer Sam Burns won his first PGA Tour title yesterday as he claimed victory at the Valspar Championship in Palm Harbor, Florida by three shots.

Also, the Tulane baseball team split its weekend series against Houston 2 games to 2.  Their next series will be against East Carolina.