A 19 hit explosion fueled the tigers to the 18-6 Saturday victory in Game 3 of the weekend series.  Four bases loaded doubles and Jacoby Jones grand-slam provided the tigers with much more than they needed to defeat the nations #19 ranked team.   Jones also finished with a career-high 6 RBI’s.

LSU improved to 43-6, 19-5 SEC while Florida fell to 25-22, 12-12 SEC.

For the fourth straight weekend Nola finished with a complete game victory.  He is the first tiger since Mike Sirotka in 1993 to pitch four consecutive complete game victories.  With the win LSU improved to 42-6, 18-5 SEC while Florida dropped to 25-23, 12-12 SEC.  The tigers will go for the series sweep Saturday at noon.  The game is scheduled to be televised by ESPN2.

An 8th inning sacrifice fly by junior catcher Ty Ross proved to be the winner late in Thursday nights game.  #3 LSU improves to 41-6, 17-5 SEC while #19 Florida falls to 25-21, 12-10 SEC.  LSU starting left-hander Cody Glenn did a fantastic job in striking out a career high six Florida batters.  He gave up one earned run on 5 hits, 1 walk.  Junior left-hander Chris Cotton shut down the gators late in gaining his 10th save of the season.

#3 LSU improved to 40-6 overall with a 7-3 victory Tuesday night against McNeese State and is still in first place in the Western Division of the SEC at 16-4.  The tigers will return to Alex Box Stadium Thursday night to begin a three-game series with #19 ranked Florida (25-20, 12-9 SEC).  Thursday’s first pitch is scheduled for 6:30.

Florida brings in a team with a lot a new faces but they do bring talent.  Because of all the new players Florida has struggled through the first few weeks of the season but since the last weekend of March are 14-4 and have won 10 of 14 conference games.

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For the first time this year the tiger baseball team failed to win the weekend series over an SEC opponent.  #2 ranked LSU (39-6, 16-5) fell to #10 ranked South Carolina (33-12, 13-8 SEC) in Sunday’s ” rubber game” and therefore finds themselves with their first series loss of the year.

The tigers will remain home for a 6:30 Tuesday night contest against McNeese State.  LSU starter Kurt McCune got the loss for the tigers dropping to 3-1 on the season.  The tigers only managed six hits in Sunday’s loss.  Gamecock left-hander Jack Wynkoop got the win only allowing five hits in seven innings of work.