Jim Kleinpeter

3 days ago | theadvocate.com | Jim Kleinpeter

The LSU softball team will get to stay home during the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. But the Tigers fell two spots short of the coveted top-eight seed when the bracket was announced Sunday evening, meaning LSU may have to hit the road if it wants to reach Oklahoma City and the Women's College World Series. The Tigers will play at 4:30 p.m. Friday as the No. 10 national seed against Southeastern Louisiana.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | Jim Kleinpeter

Coming off perhaps its most important series of the season, LSU softball coach Beth Torina welcomes one of those odd scheduling weeks with only two days between the end of the last series and the start of the next. The No. 10 Tigers travel to No. 8 Arkansas for their final Southeastern Conference series beginning with a 6 p.m. game Thursday.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | Jim Kleinpeter

A series that started with a disaster finished with a flourish for the LSU softball team. The No. 10 Tigers escaped with a narrow win Sunday before posting eight runs in the sixth inning against No. 8 Florida on Monday for a 10-2 mercy-rule win to take the series at Tiger Park. LSU (39-11, 11-10 SEC) lost 14-4 on Saturday, then won on a bad-hop single Sunday.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | Jim Kleinpeter

Sometimes all a struggling team needs is the smallest of breaks, a fortunate bounce. That’s what proved the difference for the No. 10 LSU softball team Sunday at Tiger Park. Sierra Daniel drove in the winning run with a bad-hop single to second base to lift the Tigers to a 2-1 victory and even the series with No. 8 Florida. The Tigers (38-11, 10-10 in SEC) by no means lucked out.

2 weeks ago | nola.com | Jim Kleinpeter

The season got decidedly worse for a struggling LSU softball team Saturday. The No. 10 Tigers staggered into an orange-and-blue buzzsaw as No. 8 Florida hung a 14-4 mercy-rule loss on the Tigers at Tiger Park. The Gators, who lead the SEC in home runs, pounded out three while building an 8-0 lead before LSU had a base runner. The 14 runs allowed were a season-high for LSU, and the 13 hits by Florida matched the season-high allowed by LSU two weeks ago at Texas A&M.