The LSU Tigers, who are in a three-way tie for first place in the SEC West, begins a three-game set against Missouri tonight. Mizzou has the lowest team ERA in the SEC at 2.77. Missouri is scheduled to start a left handed pitcher tonight and another one tomorrow. Junior centerfielder Zach Watson has been the most consistent right-handed bat in the line-up and knows left-hander hitters in LSU’s line-up can handle all of these southpaws…
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Zach Hess will start for the Tigers. He’s 2-and-2 with a 3.71 ERA.

LSU athletics director Joe Alleva and suspended basketball coach Will Wade were scheduled to meet. No word on whether progress was made towards reinstated Wade as the Tigers head basketball coach.

La Tech begins a huge series at Florida Atlantic tonight. The Owls are in first place in Conference USA with an 11-and-1 record. Tech is 8-and-4 and they’ve lost just one league game since they were swept by Southern Miss in the opening weekend of conference play. Bulldogs Coach Lane Burroughs credits good starting pitching…
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Tech goes into the series with an eight-game winning streak, while the Owls have won seven in a row.

ULM has won four in a row and they are at Appalachian State. After losing two midweek games, the Ragin Cajuns host South Alabama.

In the Southland…Northwestern State is at Southeastern Louisiana, Nicholls host Incarnate Word and UNO is at McNeese.