After taking a week off for final exams, LSU baseball is back in action tonight as they begin a three-game series against South Carolina. The Tigers are one of seven teams within one game of the overall lead in the league standings. Aaron Fitt, with D-1 baseball-dot-com believes LSU and Florida are the two SEC teams best equipped to make a strong run once postseason play arrives. Fitt likes the Tigers starting pitcher….
cut 20 (21) “….bring it”
LSU is coming off a sweep of Alabama, while the Gamecocks are scuffling. They have not won an SEC series since the last weekend of March.

The Ragin Cajuns begin an eight-game homestand tonight as they host Georgia Southern. UL Lafayette is looking to rebound after getting swept by UT Arlington last weekend. Both the Cajuns and Eagles have won 13 games in league play this year. ULM is hosting defending national champion Coastal Carolina.

Southland conference leader McNeese State hosts Texas A-and-M Corpus Christi. The Islanders are just 7-14 in league play. Southeastern Louisiana hosts Sam Houston. Both of those teams still have a chance at catching the Cowboys, but they can’t afford to many losses.

Louisiana Tech looks for its sixth straight win as they visit Florida International. Tech has won 10 of its last 13 Conference USA games. The Diamond Dogs are also in fifth place in the CUSA standings, FIU is 10-11 with a league record.

In the SWAC…Grambling is at Prairie View and Southern hosts Arkansas Pine-Bluff.