LRN 16:45 Sportscast June 3

The UL Lafayette baseball team has an eight-game winning streak heading into the Super Regional series against LSU. They won three games in the Houston regional and only batted .200 in the three games. Cajuns Coach Tony Robichaux says the key for his young team this weekend will be to slow the game down…
cut 18 (19) “….with adrenaline”
Game one of the Super Regional series is at seven P-M. General admission tickets go on sale Friday morning, but the director of LSU’s ticket operations, anticipates only standing-room tickets to be available.

The LSU men’s golf team won its fifth national championship and in first in 60 years as the Tigers defeated U-S-C 4-to-1 in the match-play final in Bradenton. Florida.

A four-star defensive tackle from Destrehan High School has given a verbal commitment to sign with the LSU Tigers following his senior season. Glen Logan also had sscholarship offers from Alabama and Arkansas. Logan is six-foot-four, 300 pounds and he’s LSU’s 11th commitment in the class of 2016.

It looks like former Pelicans head coach Monty Williams has found a new job. Williams has reportedly been hired to be the top assistant for new Oklahoma City head coach Billy Donovan. Meanwhile, the Pels have reportedly hired Darren Erman as the team’s associate head coach in charge of defense and New Orleans native Robert Pack as the backcourt specialist. Erman served as an assistant with the Celtics last season and Pack was with Oklahoma City.

The Girls Top 28 state basketball tournament is headed back to Hammond. That’s the result of a vote by the LHSAA Executive Committee, which also awarded the boys state basketball tournament to Lake Charles for two more years and Sulphur retains the baseball tournament for another two seasons.