Category Archives: SEC
Nicholls St. Colonels’ Pitchers Shut Down the Tigers
As mentioned in a previous post, a good friend of ours is the pitching coach for the Colonels of Nicholls St. I’ve known him since little league and we played pretty much every sport you can think of together. Baseball though, has been his true love and passion since we were kids. And you could see it all over his face last night as the Colonels took down the Tigers 3-1.
His last trip to Baton Rouge was for a game against Southern University. Nicholls got somewhere around 17 hits in the game, but it wasn’t enough to beat the Jaguars. So, of course going into it, we thought they wouldn’t have enough to beat our precious #1 LSU Tigers while on the road again. It was Nicholls St’s first win over the Tigers since 1994 (3-2 in Thibodaux), their first win in Baton Rouge since 1989, and their second time to beat a #1 Tigers team. They last did it in 1986.
The Nicholls St pitchers came into the new Alex Box with all the confidence in the world and limited LSU to only one run on only 4 hits, also recording 15 ground outs. They started a freshman and played 7 other pitchers, but it was a good strategy as the Tigers had no answer. LSU went to the dugout with countless 3 up, 3 downs and Nicholls on the other hand did just enough to get their 3 runs on 5 hits, and the win.
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LSU Tigers Prepare for Saturday’s Spring Game
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After today’s practice, the LSU Tigers are 3 days away from the culmination of spring practice, the annual Spring Game. It will be held in Tiger Stadium on Saturday at 5pm. The Purple will take on the White and we are all excited as hell about it. Here is a behind the scenes video of some spring practice action brought to you by lsusports.net. There’s more after the jump…..
The main draw might be the quarterback situation with Jordan Jefferson, Jarrett Lee, freshman lightning bolt Russell Shepard, and Chris Garrett all competing for the spot. We all know how last season went with Jarrett Lee at the helm. It’s been reported that he is having a pretty good spring. I hope we haven’t forgotten that we heard the same bull shit last spring about Lee. I’ve got to think, it’s much easier to throw a ball in the spring than it is against an SEC opponent in front of 90,000 plus in the fall. You agree, huh? Let’s all hope that if he sees the field this year, he’s made major strides in his anti-interception abilities. Jefferson was the man in the end, earning bowl MVP honors after the 38-3 crushing of Georgia Tech in the Chik-fil-a Bowl on New Year’s Eve 2008.
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LSU Baseball Back at #1
The Tigers are back on top of the college baseball world as voted by Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball, and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. All 3 polls have LSU as the #1 team in the country after winning 2 of 3 at Alabama last weekend. The USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll has the Tigers at #3
LSU began the season at #1 in some polls, but lost the ranking on March 2nd. It feels good to be back at the top. However, LSU (26-9, 10-5) trails Arkansas by 1/2 game in the SEC West and Georgia (still USA Today/ ESPN’s #1) by a full game in the overall SEC standings. This weekend, LSU will play host to Tennessee and will try to gain some ground on UGA and Arkansas.
In other news, Blake Dean was honored with the SEC Player of the Week. Dean went 6 for 12 with one double, two homers, 10 RBI’s, and 2 runs scored in the weekend series with Bama. Over the week, he hit .412. Dean became the sixth LSU Tiger to earn either SEC Player or Pitcher of the week this season. Congratulations!!
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Tigers’ Bats Come Alive, LSU Beats Bama 12-7
Blake Dean hit his 2nd home run in as any games, also going 3 for 4 as he led a 19 hit assault against the Tide today in Tuscaloosa. Louis Coleman got his eighth win of the season (8-1) after pitching 6 innings, giving up 3 runs on 5 hits. He also had 4 walks and 6 strikeouts. Ryan Schimpf also homered for the Tigers and went 3 for 5 in the process.
Upsetting were the three solo home runs that reliever Manny Ott gave up in the ninth inning. He gave up seven total hits in 2 innings of work…..thanks for nadda.
Anyway, it wasn’t enough to over come the lead the Tigers had already built. LSU won the series and made it their ninth SEC series win in a row dating back to April 2008. Way to go Tigers!
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The Dust Settles and LSU Basketball is #17
What a season for the Tigers! This year’s team surpassed all preseason expectations and played with a new attitude, thanks to 1st year LSU coach, Trent Johnson. The Tigers had the best conference record in SEC (13-3) winning game after game down the stretch. Only SEC losses were the first game at Alabama and the last two against Vanderbilt and at Auburn. We will even admit here that when the season kicked off, we knew we had some talent and exciting players, but we didn’t think LSU would have the season they did.
The Tigers relied on the offense of Marcus Thornton, Bo Spencer, and Tasmin Mitchell. The bulk of the defense was left up to Garrett Temple and Chris Johnson. All of which except for Spencer and Mitchell, are leaving LSU as seniors. It should be noted that Tasmin Mitchell is testing the NBA waters, but has not hired an agent, leaving a return to the Tigers as an option.
Anyway, back to my thought; the Tigers were very shallow and inexperienced on the bench this year and the above five guys would have to carry the weight of the team most of the way if they were going to do something special. Much to Tiger fans’ surprise, that’s exactly what they did. Night in and night out, the tigers found a way to win games and won the SEC conference title. Awards were passed out (Thornton-SEC Player of the Year, T. Johnson-SEC Coach of the Year, Mitchell-1st Team SEC, Temple and C. Johnson-2nd team SEC) and LSU got ready for what was next.
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#2 LSU Baseball Wins Series at #1 Georgia
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LSU got picked up another series in Athens today after losing yesterday 10-8 to the Bulldogs. The Tigers rebounded and with some solid pitching from senior Louis Coleman, were able to take this one 7-5. Coleman put in eight innings today and just like that, he already has his seventh win of the season. More after the jump…..
Manieri said of Coleman, “It’s hard to put into words what Louis Coleman means to our program. What a courageous outing he had today; he was truly magnificent against one of the top teams in the nation.”
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I Tip My Hat to LSU!!!!!!
Granted, I haven’t posted in awhile due to school and being out of town, but I have a little bit to say about today’s game. Come last summer if you would have told me that this years LSU team would have made the NIT tournament I would have went outside and done a back flip!! With the same team coming back, I had my doubts, but this year’s team exceeded mine and everyone else’s expectations and some. If you go to tigerrant and look at the message board about half of the posts are full of kids posting how awful we are, fire Trent Johnson, and we suck……that’s what makes this website different, I think we get a more mature/realistic LSU fan base. I am “damn proud” of this basketball team and wish nothing but the best for Marcus Thorton, Temple, Johnson, Martin, and Q. Thorton. A couple of these will play again (NBA or over seas) and I will always appreciate what they did to make this season special. UNC did win, but it was fun for 35 minutes!!!! We had a chance to shock the world and we didn’t take advantage of it. UNC is a very good team and I’m sure we earned their respect!! We didn’t quit and that’s why I’m proud to be a Tiger!! On paper, our team next year looks questionable, but that’s what I said last year. I trust Coach Johnson and can’t wait till next season!!! GEAUX TIGERS!!!
LSU Tigers Take Care of “Big Blue”, 67-58
LSU went into the SEC tournament in Tampa, FL with two straight unimpressive losses. Tiger fans were anxious to see how the Tigers would start the 2nd round game today against the Kentucky Wildcats.
LSU came out on fire jumping to a quick 13-5 lead. UK fought back to within one at 15-14. LSU then paced the Wildcats for the rest of the game. LSU led the rest of the way and took a low scoring 28-23 lead into the locker room at halftime. More after the jump……
Kentucky hung tough until the 6 minute mark in the 2nd quarter when the Tigers refused to let up. Even a 7-0 scoring run late by UK did not break LSU. Strong point guard play by Bo Spencer, scoring by Marcus Thornton, and relentless defense lead the Tigers to victory.
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