After spending the last two weekends on the road, the 9th ranked LSU baseball team opens a three-game series tonight against 15th ranked Alabama at Alex Box Stadium. LSU pitcher Connor Benge says there is no place like home…
Cut 21 (12) “..couple weeks”
First pitch is at 7 PM.
Louisiana Tech begins a nine-game homestand tonight by hosting Liberty. The Bulldogs are 8-and-3 in league play, a half game back of Western Kentucky. The Flames are 5-and-7 in league play.
In the Sun Belt, the Ragin Cajuns are at Old Dominion, while ULM looks for its fourth straight win tonight and the Warhawks are at Troy. The Trojans are 10-5 in the Sun Belt.
IN the Southland…McNeese hosts A-and-M Corpus Christi, while Southeastern hosts UTRGV.
The Pelicans have hired Natchitoches native Joe Dumars as their executive director of basketball operations. Dumars was the President of Basketball Operations in Detroit when the Pistons won an NBA title in 2004. But a lot of his draft picks flopped, his free agent signings fizzled and some of his trades did not pan out. But Jake Madison, Host of the Locked on Pelicans Podcast, says the NBA Hall of Famer is respected around the league…
Cut 17 (18) “…hire”
Tonight at 8:00 the top-seeded LSU gymnastics team competes in the semifinals of the NCAA Championships. There are eight teams left, and LSU will participate in the semifinal number two against Utah, UCLA and Michigan State. If LSU can finish in the top two, they will advance to Saturday’s championship meet.