LSU Baseball Advances to Super Regional!
The top ranked LSU baseball team has won their 20th NCAA Regional and advance to the NCAA Super Regional in Baton Rouge this weekend.
SEC Freshman of the Year Alex Bregman was named the NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Player for the Tigers. Bregman went 3-4 with a home run in the Championship game versus Louisiana-Lafayette, propelling LSU to a 5-1 win over the Ragin' Cajuns.
LSU (55-9) will play Oklahoma (43-19) in the best two-out-of-three Super Regional. OU won the Blacksburg, Va. Region as the #2 seed; upsetting #1 seed Virginia Tech.
All-Tournament Team
P - Aaron Nola, LSU
P - Brent Bonvillain, LSU
C - Ty Ross, LSU
1B - Mason Katz, LSU
2B - Ryan O'Hearn, SHSU
SS - Alex Bregman, LSU
3B - Tyler Girouard, ULL
OF - Raph Rhymes, LSU
OF - Caleb Adams, ULL
OF - Chuck Tilery, JSU
DH - Anoko Knowles, JSU
Most Outstanding Player: Alex Bregman, LSU
NCAA Super Regional Pairings
(1) North Carolina/Florida Atlantic vs. South Carolina/Liberty
(8) Oregon/Rice vs. NC State
(5) Cal State Fullerton/Arizona St. vs. UCLA
(4) LSU vs. Oklahoma
(2) Vanderbilt/Georgia Tech vs. Louisville
(7) Florida St. vs. Indiana
(6) Virginia vs. Mississippi St./Central Arkansas
(3) Oregon St. vs. Kansas St.
2013 NCAA BATON ROUGE REGIONAL
#1 LSU at Louisiana-Lafayette
Jun 02, 2013 at Baton Rouge, La. (Alex Box/Bertman Fld)
LSU 5 (55-9) | ||||||||||
Player | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | so | po | a | lob | avg |
Mark Laird rf | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .287 |
JaCoby Jones 2b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .283 |
Alex Bregman ss | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .385 |
Mason Katz 1b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .378 |
Raph Rhymes lf | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | .340 |
Christian Ibarra 3b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .325 |
Ty Ross c | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .211 |
Alex Edward dh | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .235 |
Tyler Moore ph | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .272 |
Jared Foster ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .355 |
Andrew Stevenson cf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | .183 |
Brent Bonvillain p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - |
Nick Rumbelow p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - |
Chris Cotton p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Totals | 36 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 27 | 8 | 13 | |
Louisiana-Lafayette 1 (43-20) | ||||||||||
Player | ab | r | h | rbi | bb | so | po | a | lob | avg |
Kjerstad, Dex rf | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .388 |
Conrad, Jace 2b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .286 |
Trahan, Blake ss | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | .319 |
Adams, Caleb lf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .339 |
Girouard, Tyler 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .360 |
Strentz, Michael c | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .311 |
Leonards, Ryan cf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .328 |
Butler, Dylan dh | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .295 |
Compton, Chase 1b | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | .265 |
Boutte, Cody p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | - |
Cockrell, Cord p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Mayer, Kendall p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Carter, Ben p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - |
Frith, Ben p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - |
Totals | 30 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 27 | 9 | 4 |
Score by Innings R H E ------------------------------------------- LSU................. 000 013 010 - 5 10 1 Louisiana-Lafayette. 000 001 000 - 1 3 1 ------------------------------------------- |
E - Bregman(16); Strentz, M(8). LOB - LSU 13; ULL 4. 2B - Katz(14); Edward(3); Conrad, J(13). HR - Bregman(6). HBP - Stevenson. SH - Leonards, R(12). SB - Rhymes(3); Conrad, J(19). |
LSU | ip | h | r | er | bb | so | wp | bk | hbp | ibb | ab | bf | fo | go | np | era |
Brent Bonvillain W,3-0 | 5.1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 62 | 2.76 |
Nick Rumbelow | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 3.56 |
Chris Cotton | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 1.29 |
Louisiana-Lafayette | ip | h | r | er | bb | so | wp | bk | hbp | ibb | ab | bf | fo | go | np | era |
Boutte, Cody L,8-4 | 4.2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 104 | 5.30 |
Cockrell, Cord | 0.2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 5.63 |
Mayer, Kendall | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1.31 |
Carter, Ben | 2.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 40 | 4.63 |
Frith, Ben | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5.68 |
Win - Bonvillain (3-0). Loss - Boutte, C (8-4). Save - None. WP - Boutte, C(5). HBP - by Boutte, C (Stevenson). Inherited runners/scored: Rumbelow 1/0; Cockrell, C 3/0; Mayer, K 2/2; Frith, B 2/0. Pitches/strikes: Bonvillain 62/40; Rumbelow 30/21; Cotton 12/10; Boutte, C 104/54; Cockrell, C 14/10; Mayer, K 14/8; Carter, B 40/20; Frith, B 6/4. Umpires - HP: Darrin Sealey 1B: Greg Charles 2B: Kevin Sweeney 3B: Billy Van Start: 7:05 pm Time: 2:57 Attendance: 11838 Game notes: Actual Attendance: 10,191 |