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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Jace Fry allowed one run through five innings and Oregon State's bullpen pitched a shutout the rest of the way as the Beavers opened the NCAA tournament with a 2-1 victory over Belmont at the Baton Rouge Regional on Friday.  

BATON ROUGE, La. - Top-ranked LSU (43-16) opens NCAA Baton Rouge Regional action at 7 p.m. CT Friday when the Tigers meet Louisiana-Monroe in Alex Box Stadium. The LSU-ULM game will be carried by the affiliates of the LSU Sports Radio Network ...  

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be updated. With AP Photos. BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — One year after missing the NCAA tournament, order has been restored at LSU. The Tigers (43-16) are accustomed not just to making the tournament, but also hosting regionals, which ...  

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — One year after missing the NCAA tournament, order has been restored at LSU. The Tigers (43-16) are accustomed not just to making the tournament, but also hosting regionals, which they'll do this weekend. Joining LSU at the double ...  

I’m very impressed with their style of play and how much passion their kids play with.” LSU has a 38-8 all-time mark against Louisiana-Monroe; Friday’s game will mark the first meeting between the teams since March 9, 2010 when the Tigers posted an ...  

For the first time since 2000, the University of Louisiana – MonroeWarhawks have earned a trip to the NCAA Division 1 Baseball Tournament. Having secured a four seed in the Baton Rouge Regional, the Warhawks' first round opponent is no stranger to success – the number one seeded LSU Tigers.  

The college football world will never know just how good Rueben Randle really was, but NFL teams are about to find out real fast.Randle arrived at LSU in 2009, ranked as the No. 1 wide receiver prospect in the nation. Everyone could tell that this kid was loaded with talent when he arrived in Baton Rouge, but his production was plagued by poor quarterback play throughout his three-year career at LSU.Randle chose to bolt for the NFL after his...  

Friday night's contest between ULM and LSU in the second game of the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional can be seen on both Comcast Sports South and Cox Sports Television. First pitch between the Warhawks and the Tigers is slated for 7 p.m.  

Raph Rhymes makes the most difficult task in sports look decidedly easy. LSU's junior left fielder hits a baseball with uncommon success. In the illustrious history of LSU baseball, no one has squared a round bat on the round ball better than ...  

A release from Oregon State: CORVALLIS - Comcast SportsNet NW (Comcast 37 in Portland area) will carry Oregon State's baseball games at the Baton Rouge Regional of the NCAA Tournament. The first game is scheduled for Noon PDT Fri., June 1 from ...  

Baton Rouge - SEC champion LSU earned the No. 7 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament and will play Louisiana-Monroe in the first game of the regional tournament Friday at either 2 p.m. or 7 p.m. at Alex Box Stadium. Also coming to Baton Rouge for ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU has been designated as an NCAA Baseball Regional host site, the NCAA Baseball Selection Committee announced Sunday. The NCAA Baton Rouge Regional begins Friday afternoon in Alex Box Stadium. LSU is playing host to a ...  

BATON ROUGE -- LSU (43-16) has been designated as an NCAA Baseball Regional host site, the NCAA Baseball Selection Committee announced Sunday. The NCAA Baton Rouge Regional begins Friday afternoon in Alex Box Stadium. LSU, which won its 15th ...  

NEW ORLEANS - The exclusive television rights to the 2012 Baton Rouge NCAA Baseball Regional have been awarded to Cox Sports Television (CST) and Jumbo Sports Network, as announced by the NCAA Wednesday. All games of the Baton Rouge Regional ...  

The college baseball 2012 NCAA Tournament will begin on June 1. The LSU Tigers received the seventh national seed and were selected to host one of the tournament's regional rounds in Baton Rouge, La. Joining the Tigers will be Oregon State, Belmont and UL ...  

BATON ROUGE -- LSU (43-16), which learned yesterday it will play host to its 20th NCAA Baseball Regional, earned the No. 7 national seed and will face Louisiana-Monroe (31-28) on Friday at 7 p.m. CT in Alex Box Stadium, it was announced Monday on ESPNU.  

  Courtesy: Oregon State Sports Information CORVALLIS, Ore. - The Oregon State baseball team will be making a program-record fourth consecutive postseason appearance when it heads to the Baton Rouge Regional as announced by the NCAA on ESPNU Monday morning. The Beavers will be the No. 2 seed at the regional, which is hosted by LSU (Southeastern Conference). The Tigers are the No. 1 seed. Oregon State will open the regional against No. 3...  

The LSU men's baseball team finished the regular season with a 43-16 record and earned a number seven seed nationally. LSU will play host to its 20th NCAA Baseball Regional heading toward the College World Series. The NCAA Baton Rouge Regional ...  

BATON ROUGE -- LSU (43-16), which learned yesterday it will play host to its 20th NCAA Baseball Regional, earned the No. 7 national seed and will face Louisiana-Monroe (31-28) on Friday at 7 p.m. CT in Alex Box Stadium, it was announced Monday on ESPNU.  

BATON ROUGE — The LSU softball team lost eight of its last 10 games before the NCAA postseason and scored one run in the last three of those contests. So the Tigers were not going to let what happened in a 5-1 loss to Missouri in 12 innings Sunday afternoon get to them.  

As expected, the SEC Champion LSU Baseball Tigers were awarded an NCAA Tournament Regional at Alex Box Stadium next weekend, as the NCAA announced all 16 host sites for the 64-team field Sunday afternoon.  

Josh Boutte, the nation's 14th-ranked offensive guard prospect, committed to LSU in early February, and he's continued to remain 100% on board with the Tigers since then. On Saturday, Boutte made the drive east from New Iberia to Baton Rouge for LSU's Bayou Recruiting Picnic, and he discusses that and more inside with FoxSportsNEXT/Scout.com.  

Cookeville native Judah Akers and the Belmont baseball team are headed to Baton Rouge. The Bruins were selected for the Louisiana State University regional on Monday after wrapping up their second-straight Atlantic Sun Conference tournament title on Saturday.  

BATON ROUGE -- LSU senior center P.J. Lonergan is one of 50 players across the nation who were named to the watch list for the Rimington Trophy, which is annually presented to college football’s top center, it was announced on Tuesday.  

May 29, 2012 - The LSU Tigers will host their 20th NCAA Regional this weekend when Oregon State, Belmont, and Louisiana-Monroe travel to Baton Rouge. The Tigers were also announced as the #7 national seed, which means they are guaranteed to host ...  

BATON ROUGE -- The next few days in Destin, Fla., may well shape how you watch college football for the next several years. Since 1992, you have been watching the best football conference in the country -- the Southeastern Conference -- win national ...  

BATON ROUGE -- The LSU softball team lost eight of its last 10 games before the NCAA postseason and scored one run in the last three of those contests. So the Tigers were not going to let what happened in a 5-1 loss to Missouri in 12 innings ...  

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Despite losing two of three games in the SEC Tournament, the LSU baseball team is ranked No. 1 in the Collegiate Baseball top 30. Earlier Monday, the Tigers (43-16) earned a No. 7 national seed for the NCAA tournament. LSU moved up one spot in ...  

The University of Louisiana at Monroe Warhawk baseball team learned Monday their regional destination in the NCAA Baseball Division I Baseball Tournament is Baton Rouge where ULM will face host LSU at 7 p.m. Friday.  

The bubble burst for the Tulane as the Green Wave didn't receive a post-season bid. The seeding for the Baton Rouge Regional: 1. LSU, 2. Oregon State, 3. Belmont and 4. University of Louisiana-Monroe. LSU will face UL-Monroe in the opening match ...  

It seems David has been an inspiration, as Alean tells me she is now attending a technical college to get an associate degree in early childhood education—and she says her daughter is going to college, too. David was like so many in our ...  

The LSU Tigers earned the No. 7 seed of the NCAA baseball tournament and will face Louisiana-Monroe in regional opener, hosted by the Tigers at Alex Box Stadium on Friday. Specific time slots for the regional have yet to be announced, but it ...  

The LSU baseball program was one of 16 schools awarded a regional host role in the NCAA Tournament, which begins Friday. It's the 20th time the Tigers will play host to a regional. LSU (43-16) was one of three SEC schools, along with South ...  

EUGENE – Perhaps Oregon baseball coach George Horton put ... The Baton Rouge regional includes No. 1 seed LSU, No. 3 seed Belmont, and No. 4 seed Louisiana-Monroe. “We’ve talked about LSU, and it’s their regional, but everybody who ...  

What seemed like a season destined to culminate in an NCAA Championship for the second-ranked LSU Tigers is now in doubt after just one loss. After a heartbreaking 4-3 loss in extra innings to No. 21 Mississippi State in the 2012 SEC Tournament, LSU is ...  

BATON ROUGE — Charles Alexander, a two-time All-American and Heisman Trophy finalist who played at LSU from 1975-78, has been named to the prestigious College Football Hall of Fame, it was announced by the National Football Foundation on Tuesday.  

BATON ROUGE — Charles Alexander, a two-time All-American and Heisman Trophy finalist who played at LSU from 1975-78, has been named to the prestigious College Football Hall of Fame, it was announced by the National Football Foundation on Tuesday.  

BATON ROUGE - The bats in college baseball have been smaller, lighter and less powerful for nearly two seasons now. But not if you hit the sweet spot almost every time like LSU’s Raph Rhymes. ... Hey, that rhymes. This is no baseball poem, though. Rhymes, a junior left fielder from Neville High School with a swing as rhythmically perfect as iambic pentameter, is making ball and aluminum ring true like no one else in the game has in 20 years...  

Junior pitcher Nick Goody made a trip to Louisiana the summer after his freshman year at State College of Florida to visit Tulane, but Goody wanted to do one more thing before he left the state — visit Alex Box Stadium. So Goody and his mother made...  

BATON ROUGE -- LSU backup guard John Isaac, a freshman from Pickering High in Leesville, will not return to the team for the 2012-13 season, coach Johnny Jones announced on Wednesday in a LSU sports information release. Isaac "failed to meet the ...  

BATON ROUGE — Get ready for two glorious weekends of scorching baseball in Alex Box Stadium coming this June. It is a rite of summer in these parts. For the first time in three years, LSU will be hosting postseason baseball — an NCAA ...  

In the next couple of weeks, it's going to look like a normal college baseball postseason again in Baton Rouge. With No. 2 LSU likely to nab a top-eight national seed when the NCAA Tournament brackets are announced Monday, LSU is in host-team mode.  

Rettig, the younger brother of Boston College quarterback Chase Rettig, also holds scholarship offers from Arizona, Arizona State, Boston College, Purdue and Vanderbilt. He is scheduled to go on an unofficial visit to Baton Rouge this weekend.  

BATON ROUGE -- The fpurth-ranked LSU baseball team was cruising toward a top eight NCAA Tournament seed going into this past weekend's series against Vanderbilt, but suddenly the Tigers seem like a team with a lot of issues. In Sunday's 5-4 loss ...  

BCS Edition of 'Les Miles Show' Tonight; Watch Live Les Miles Show Set for Jan. 8 BATON ROUGE - The Les Miles Show presented by Capital One Bank - The Allstate BCS National Championship Edition will be broadcast from the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton New ...  

Columbia, S.C. -- Most college athletes will toe the party line and obediently rehash the whole one-game-at-a-time mantra over and over. LSU pitcher Kevin Gausman isn't most college athletes. So after he twirled a second consecutive complete ...  

BATON ROUGE — Maybe when LSU gets to the NCAA postseason, its schedule may finally lighten up a bit. That will not happen this weekend. The No. 9 Tigers (40-13, 17-10 Southeastern Conference) close the baseball regular season with a three-game ...  

BATON ROUGE — Maybe when LSU gets to the NCAA postseason, its schedule may finally lighten up a bit. That will not happen this weekend. The No. 9 Tigers (40-13, 17-10 Southeastern Conference) close the baseball regular season with a three-game ...  

Katz said he's excited to play in the 9,000-seat stadium ... changing their national projection from "secure" to "on the bubble" as a super regional host. LSU Coach Paul Mainieri said he thinks "the eyes of college baseball will be on us ...  

BATON ROUGE -- The LSU baseball team, with just 10 regular season games left, is battling for the best postseason seeding possible, starting tonight with a three-game series at 30-16 Ole Miss. The Tigers (36-10), who have not been to the NCAA ...  

BATON ROUGE – Charles Alexander, a two-time All-American and Heisman Trophy finalist who played at LSU from 1975-78, has been named to the prestigious College Football Hall of Fame, it was announced by the National Football Foundation on Tuesday.  

BATON ROUGE — There is the Midas Touch and the Mainieri Touch. LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri switched positions on one of the brightest prospects in college baseball in 2009 when he moved preseason All-American sophomore shortstop D.J ...  

BATON ROUGE — There is the Midas Touch and the Mainieri Touch. LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri switched positions on one of the brightest prospects in college baseball in 2009 when he moved preseason All-American sophomore shortstop D.J ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU will add new seats to Tiger Stadium, in a south end zone expansion that will put the football stadium's capacity near 100,000 people and make it among the largest university stadiums in the nation. The Board of Supervisors backed ...  

BATON ROUGE, La. – No. 3 LSU (30-7, 11-4 SEC) completed the three-game SEC sweep of Alabama with a 5-1 win Sunday at Alex Box Stadium. Alabama (13-23, 4-11 SEC) collected just five hits against four LSU pitchers. Jared Reaves was 1-for-3 with ...  

BATON ROUGE -- Nerves don't seem to affect LSU golfer Austin Ernst. Last year as a freshman, Ernst finished tied for third on the individual leaderboard at the NCAA Central Regional. She carried the momentum to the NCAA Championships where she ...  

BATON ROUGE - The college baseball clash between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Kentucky in Lexington, Ky., tonight will air live on Cox Cable Channel 96 in Lafayette, Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the LSU athletic department released Friday afternoon.  

BATON ROUGE – The bats in college baseball have been smaller, lighter and less powerful for nearly two seasons now. But not if you hit the sweet spot almost every time like LSU's Raph Rhymes. … Hey, that rhymes. This is no baseball poem ...  

BATON ROUGE — The bats in college baseball have been smaller, lighter and less powerful for nearly two seasons now. But not if you hit the sweet spot almost every time like LSU's Raph Rhymes. ... Hey, that rhymes. This is no baseball poem ...  

BATON ROUGE - LSU boxing legend Edsel E. "Tad" Thrash, a two-time NCAA boxing champion for the Tigers, died Monday in Raymond, Miss. Thrash competed in boxing at LSU in 1949 and 1950 and never lost a collegiate match. Thrash and Wilbert "Pee Wee ...  

BATON ROUGE - LSU videographer Doug Aucoin has been named the video coordinator of the year in the Southeastern Conference, the College Sports Video ... responsible for managing the computer network in the LSU Football Operations Building ...  

BATON ROUGE -- There is the Midas Touch and the Mainieri Touch. Louisiana State baseball coach Paul Mainieri switched positions on one of the brightest prospects in college baseball in 2009 when he moved preseason All-American sophomore ...  

BATON ROUGE — Veteran bench coach and recruiter Robert Kirby of Georgetown will be joining the LSU basketball program, head coach Johnny Jones announced Tuesday through a sports information release. Kirby, who has served the past two seasons ...  

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