They’re still surveying for damages after the LSU baseball team had an explosion on offense, beating Southeastern Louisiana 17-3 in seven innings last night; a score that looked like it belonged on the board in Death Valley instead of at The Box. Tre Morgan drove in five runs for the Tigers, including two in a nine run fourth inning that effectively put the game out of reach. Sam Dutton pitched three innings and allowed just one run to earn his first win of the season. LSU will host Ole Miss this weekend in their final SEC home series and Southeastern moves on for a critical three-game set with Nicholls as the Lions and Colonels are separated by just one game in the Southland standings.
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The latest projections from D1 baseball-dot-com have the Tigers hosting a regional as an 11 seed, joined by McNeese State. D1 places Louisiana Tech as a three seed in the Fayetteville Regional with Arkansas and UL as a three seed as well, with the Ragin Cajuns heading to College Station.
On the diamond tonight, UNO is at South Alabama.
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Details of Tyrann Mathieu’s contract with the Saint are out…The first two years of his three-year deal are fully guaranteed. The Honey Badger’s deal guarantees him 18.5 million and has a cash value of 28.3 million dollars according to the Times-Picayune.
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At the Southland Conference Softball Tournament, top-seeded McNeese scored two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to rally past Northwestern State, 6-5. Tied at four entering the final inning, the Lady Demons pushed across the go-ahead run on Bailie Ragsdale’s RBI single. However in the bottom of the eighth, NSU committed a pair of errors to put McNeese runners in scoring position. Singles by Kendall Talley and Crislyne Moreno brought in the winning runs. McNeese will face the winner of this afternoon’s game between Houston Baptist and Southeastern while the Lady Demons will take on either Texas A&M Corpus Christi or Nicholls State on Thursday in an elimination game.
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LSU softball will have to wait to find out where it will play in the NCAA tournament after the Tigers were eliminated in the opening round of the SEC tournament. LSU fell to 11th-seeded Mississippi State 7-4 in extra innings. The Tigers were down 4-2 in the bottom of the seventh but tied things up after doubles by Danieca Coffey and Ciara Briggs. In the ninth, LSU couldn’t keep up the momentum as they surrendered three quick runs. Coach Beth Torina has never won the SEC tournament and her teams have been knocked out in the first round six times in 10 seasons.