The LSU baseball team received the number two overall seed in the NCAA Baseball Tournament. The number one seed went to UCLA. Joining the Tigers in the Baton Rouge Regional will be Lehigh, Tulane, and UNC Wilmington. LSU will face Lehigh, the Patriot League champion, Friday at 3PM. The Mountain Hawks come into the regional with a 25-29 overall record. The Green Wave will take on the Seahawks, the Colonial Athletic Association tournament champions, Friday night at seven.

UL-Lafayette will play in the Houston Regional. The Ragin Cajuns will take on Rice Friday at 2:30PM. Houston and Houston Baptist, the Southland Conference tournament champions, are the other two teams in the regional. They’ll face each other Friday at seven. The winner of this Regional will take on the winner of the Baton Rouge Regional in the Super Regionals.

Disappointment in Hammond as Southeastern Louisiana failed to make the 64-team tournament field.

In college softball, the number eight LSU Tigers scored four in the first inning yesterday and fended off several rallies to defeat the sixteenth ranked Arizona Wildcats 10-5 to win their Super Regional and advance to the Women’s College World Series. This is the Tigers’ fourth ever berth in the World Series and they will face Auburn Thursday at 1:30 in Oklahoma City.

School Officials say a Ouachita Parish High School student-athlete died in a swimming accident in Arkansas over the weekend. They say Kenton Norman was with his family in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas when he drowned trying to swim to an inflatable trampoline in a lake. Norman was a freshman last season on the Ouachita Lions football team.

In the NBA Eastern Conference Finals, the Cleveland Cavaliers take a three games to none lead over the Atlanta Hawks after a 114-111 overtime win last night. LeBron James lead the way for the Cavs with a triple-double; 37 points, 18 rebounds, and 13 assists. Former Louisiana Tech standout Paul Milsaps scored 22 for the Hawks in a losing effort. Game four of this series is tomorrow night.