The fifth-ranked LSU baseball team opened the SEC Tournament with a solid 10-3 win over South Carolina. The Tigers got a good start on the mound from Thatcher Hurd and left-hander Nate Ackenhausen was brilliant in relief as he pitched 3.2 innings for his second save of the season. Coach Jay Johnson went to Ackenhausen in the sixth inning when the Gamecocks were mounting a comeback…
Cut 19 (21) “….playoff baseball”
LSU will play Arkansas at 4:30 PM today. The Razorbacks defeated Texas A-and-M six to five in eleven innings.

Late night in Lake Charles last night, Nicholls outlasted McNeese three to two in 14 innings. Northwestern State edged UIW two to one.

Jackson Nezuh and Cooper Rawls held Texas State to one hit last night as the Ragin Cajuns defeated the Bobcats six to one to move into the winner’s bracket of the Sun Belt Tournament. It’s the first combined one-hitter for U-L Lafayette since 2018. Nezuh struck out a career-high nine. The Cajuns face top seeded Coastal Carolina tonight.

Louisiana Tech hit five home runs yesterday to beat Charlotte 13 to eight in the Conference USA Tournament. Dalton Davis hit two dingers and Phillip Matulia mashed his 19th home run of the season. Bulldogs Coach Lane Burroughs had a feeling some runs would be scored in Houston
Cut 17 (12) “..proud of our guys”
Sixth seeded Louisiana Tech will face seventh seeded Middle Tennessee at 12:30 today.

Grambling and Southern will play each other today at 5 PM in a winner’s bracket game of the SWAC Tournament. The Jaguars doubled up Bethune Cookman four to two, while Grambling edged Jackson State eight to seven.