After eleven starts in the big leagues, former LSU star Paul Skenes started on the mound for the National League in last night’s Major League Baseball All Star game in Dallas. Skenes says his one season at LSU and playing at Alex Box Stadium helped him prepare for the moment…
cut 15 (16) “…full stadiums”
Skenes pitched just one inning, he issued a walk, but did not allow a hit or run and did not have a strikeout.

Former Northwestern State star David Fry had a big hit as he drove in a run to help the American League come back from a three to nothing deficit to win five to three.

LSU first baseman Jared Jones, who slugged 28 home runs last season for the Tigers, will return for his junior season. Starting shortstop Michael Braswell is also coming back. Both players were not selected in the Major League Baseball Draft.

A status conference hearing scheduled for today in suspended LSU running back Trey Holly’s criminal case has been pushed back until September. Holly’s attorney, Mike Small, says he and the prosecutor requested the change because they are still in the process of receiving evidence from the February shooting that injured two people in Union Parish…
cut 6 (08) “….that stage’
Holly has pleaded not guilty to a charge of illegal use of a weapon or dangerous instrumentality.

LSU linebacker Harold Perkins will move back to inside linebacker this season. Coach Brian Kelly says it will make it harder for opposing offenses to scheme against Perkins, because he’ll be in the middle of the field instead of on one side of the field. Perkins says he’s good with the move…
Cut 18 (14) “…a play.”