11:40 LRN Sportscast

What a performance by sophomore left-hander Kade Anderson last night! The Tigers ace struck out 14 hitters as LSU shutout Oklahoma two to nothing. Anderson threw 135 pitches in the complete game shutout. Game two of the series is tonight at 6:30.

ULM students have approved a 75-dollar fee per semester that will generate 600-thousand dollars in its first year for the school’s athletic department. ULM Athletic Director John Hartwell says the fee goes into effect for the 2025 Fall Semester…

Cut 9 (11)  “…21 million dollars.”

Hartwell says they plan to use the money to install a new video board in Fant-Ewing Coliseum.

 

LSU star women’s basketball player Flau’Jae Johnson is reportedly returning for her senior season. Johnson was a freshman on LSU’s 2023 national championship team. But Angel Reese and Alexis Morris were the big leaders on that team. Reed Darcey of the Advocate says Johnson seems motivated to win a national title as a senior leader…

Cut 17 (16) “…call it her own.”

LSU men’s basketball continues to keep adding for the transfer portal. The fourth portal addition is Max Mackinnon, a six-foot-six guard who averaged 14.5 points and shot 41-percent from three-point territory at Portland.

Donte Jackson led Grambling to the NCAA Tournament in 2024, but Jackson has been hired as the new men’s basketball coach at Alabama A-and-M.

And LSU Gymnastics scored a 198.1 to advance to the NCAA Penn State Regional Final which will take place  at 4 PM on Saturday. Arkansas, Michigan State and Kentucky are the three other teams.