The highway to Omaha doesn’t undergo Baton Rouge, or anyplace else in Louisiana, this yr. However that doesn’t imply native followers don’t have anybody to holler for because the NCAA baseball event kicks into gear this weekend.
4 Louisiana colleges are within the 64-team event.
LSU goes to Hattiesburg’s Pete Taylor Park to play Kennesaw State; Louisiana Tech to Austin’s UFCU DischFalk Subject to face off towards Dallas Baptist; the Ragin Cajuns to School Station’s Blue Bell Park to problem TCU; and Southeastern Louisiana to Auburn’s Plainsman Park to face the house group.
4 groups out of 64 is a fairly good exhibiting for a small state, though the school baseball world tends to favor sunbelt colleges, which have a considerable climate benefit when the season kicks off in February.
As well as, our sports activities columnist Rod Walker reviews that almost 1 / 4 of the faculties enjoying this weekend have at the least one Louisiana participant.
That features some who went far off for varsity, like Seth Dardar of Mandeville, enjoying for Columbia in Blacksburg, Va., and Jackson Dennies of River Ridge, who will swimsuit up for Notre Dame in Statesboro, Georgia.
The School World Collection kicks off June 16, and over time LSU followers have been a favourite of the locals — main the nation in each college spirit and spending. The group has a brand new coach in Jay Johnson, however he is aware of his approach round Omaha, having taken Arizona there twice.
We’re hopeful he, or certainly one of our different coaches, could make a return journey this yr — and so are the enterprise homeowners and bartenders of Omaha.