Ranked teams and A&M opponents...all finals...


Alabama-Birmingham over LSU, 4-3
Tulane over Marist, 11-5
South Carolina over New Orleans, 13-7
Miami, Fla. over North Carolina State, 13-7
Florida over Villanova, 6-5
Arkansas over Illinois-Chicago, 9-2
Vanderbilt over Ball State, 4-0
Georgia Tech over Duke, 19-3
Mississippi over Purdue, 13-6
TCU over Manhattan, 9-8

Jacksonville over Belmont, 5-4
Wake Forest over Virginia, 7-6
Sam Houston State and Illinois played to a 1-1 tie (14 innings)
Houston over Loyola-Marymount, 8-3
Tennessee over Morehead State, 3-2



Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5-6 - NIV

LSU is struggling this week. They already lost this week to Centenary 6-1 with their lone run being unearned. Centenary is a small liberal arts school of like 900 people.

FYI - yesterday's Rice-Notre Dame game in Round Rock was cancelled due to rain and will not be made up.

Yeah, the same Centenary that beat us in hoops not too long ago.

Local gumbo recipe, mostly.

A lot of the players on the rosters of the smaller Louisiana schools competed against one another, and guys on our roster, in high school.

Add to the fact that LSU is the single large university in the state, and that makes it real easy for a UNO or McNeese to get up for a single weekday game, especially with a short travel.

There have been numerous times I've seen LSU, in the Skip Bertman years especially, come back from a conference road trip sweep, only to face Southeastern or Louisiana College at home on a Tuesday evening, and those guys come in fired up and ready to play. Centenary was a surprise, though. The last time they beat us in baseball was in the '50s.

BTW, we get Tulane tomorrow night.
That should be fun.

[This message has been edited by LSU89 (edited 3/7/2005 12:28p).]

Beat the hell out of them, please. I am so sick of Will Kimmey continually kissing their asses. They have a good team and great pitchers, but they are not as far above everyone else in college baseball as he seems to think.