BATON ROUGE — A pair of LSU softball games against Southeastern Conference rival and No. 1-ranked Tennessee on April 28 and 29 have been picked up for live broadcast by ESPN2, marking the second straight year the eighth-ranked Tigers and Lady Vols will battle it out on the national network.
Due to the acquisition of the games by ESPN2, the first game of the series on Saturday, originally scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. and televised by Cox Sports Television, has been moved to a 3 p.m. start with the second game of the doubleheader scheduled for a 5 p.m. first pitch.
The final game of the Tennessee series remains scheduled for a 1 p.m. start. The first and third games of the series will be televised on ESPN2 in Baton Rouge on cable channel 36. Last season, LSU lost to Tennessee, 0-4, on ESPN2, before coming back to defeat the Lady Vols, 4-0, on ESPNU.
Cox Sports Television has now dropped the first game of the Tennessee series from its broadcast schedule and instead picked up the mid-week SEC doubleheader against Kentucky on April 3, giving the Tigers six games televised on CST this season. LSU is a perfect 2-0 on Cox Sports already this year, knocking off McNeese State, 7-1, and No. 19 Florida, 2-1.
The Tigers will now have a total of nine regular season games televised this year. In addition to the two games already broadcast by Cox Sports Television, CST will televise Saturday’s first game against Alabama at 1 p.m., the Kentucky doubleheader on April 3 and a single game against Southeastern Louisiana on April 11. SEC-TV will televise the final game of the Alabama series this weekend on Sunday.
This marks the second straight year LSU has had nine regular season softball games televised. Last season, the Tigers saw one game broadcast by ESPN2, two televised by ESPNU, one broadcast by SEC-TV and five televised by Cox Sports Television.
Updated 2007 LSU Softball Television Broadcasts
March 7 McNeese State at LSU Cox Sports Television Win, 7-1
March 18 Florida at LSU Cox Sports Television Win, 2-1
March 24 Alabama at LSU Cox Sports Television 1 p.m.
March 25 Alabama at LSU SEC-TV (Fox Sports Net) 1 p.m.
April 3 Kentucky at LSU (both games of the doubleheader) Cox Sports Television 4 p.m.
April 11 Southeastern Louisiana at LSU Cox Sports Television 6 p.m.
April 28 Tennessee at LSU (first game of the doubleheader) ESPN2 3 p.m.
April 29 Tennessee at LSU EPSN2 1 p.m.