6:45 LRN Sportscast

The top-ranked LSU baseball team will take on Tulane at Turchin Stadium in New Orleans tonight. The Bayou Bengals are 26-5, while the Green Wave are just 9-23, but Tigers Coach Jay Johnson says Tulane is a much better team than their record indicates…
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Tulane has won five of the last seven games during this series that dates back all the way to 1893. First pitch tonight is at 6:00.

Meanwhile, back on the LSU campus, the 12th ranked LSU softball team hosts top ranked Oklahoma at 6 PM. The Sooners have won 28 straight games.

And Lady Tiger basketball players LaDazhia Williams and Alexis Morris were selected in the second round of last night’s W-N-B-A draft. Williams is heading to Indiana, while Morris is heading to Connecticut.

The Ragin Cajuns baseball team is starting to get national attention. At 23-9, UL-Lafayette is ranked 28th in Collegiate Baseball’s Top 30 poll and the Cajuns are receiving votes in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Coach Matt Deggs team takes a five-game winning streak into tonight’s game against Louisiana Tech. The Bulldogs are 16-and-16
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La Tech is coming off a conference series win over Rice in Houston.

McNeese Pitcher Grant Rogers has been named Southland Pitcher of the Week. The right-hander from Texas is 8-and-0 after he threw his second complete game of the season in an eight to three win over A-and-M Corpus Christi. The Cowboys will host Louisiana Christian tonight.

Addison Fruge of Rosepine has been named the Class 2A Girls Basketball Player of the Year as she led the Eagles to a Division three nonselect state championship averaging 17 points a game.