BATON ROUGE — LSU head coach Smoke Laval along with coaches from the seven other Southeastern Conference Tournament qualifying teams addressed the media in the pre-SEC Tournament teleconference held Monday morning. Listen to the full interview now.
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LSU Baseball Report ? May 21, 2006
Overall Record: 34-22
SEC Record: 13-17
Last Week: 1-3
May 16 ? vs. #1 Rice (L, 3-6)
May 18 ? at Florida (W, 7-3)
May 19 ? at Florida (L, 7-8 in 10 innings)
May 20 ? at Florida (L, 5-10)
Notes on the Tigers
LSU qualified for the SEC Tournament for the 22nd consecutive season as the Tigers are the No. 8 seed in the postseason event … LSU will face No. 1 seed Alabama in the first round of the tournament at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Hoover, Ala… . LSU is the only SEC school to make a league tournament appearance in every season dating back to 1985 … the Tigers were in 12th place in the conference standings four weeks ago with a 6-12 league mark, but LSU won seven of its final 12 SEC games to earn the tournament berth … LSU has series victories this season over three ranked teams ? No. 8 Alabama, No. 11 Houston and No. 15 Arkansas, and the Tigers were 1-1 this year versus No. 13 Tulane … LSU has played the last four weeks of the season without two of its top pitchers ? right-handers Derik Olvey and Michael Bonura … Olvey, LSU’s leader in wins, suffered an elbow injury April 23 at Ole Miss and has since undergone Tommy John surgery … Bonura, who had Tommy John surgery last season, is out for the year with an elbow injury ? he last pitched on April 22 at Ole Miss … junior right-hander Edgar Ramirez pitched very effectively in his first career LSU start last Thursday at Florida … Ramirez, a Miami native, limited the Gators to three runs on eight hits in six innings with four walks and four strikeouts … LSU broke a 3-3 tie in the top of the ninth inning Thursday by scoring four runs en route to a 7-3 victory … right-hander Chase Dardar, who relieved Ramirez in the seventh inning, earned the win by working 2.1 scoreless innings while allowing just one hit … junior designated hitter Steven Waguespack enjoyed an excellent weekend at the plate at Florida, batting .600 (6-for-10) with one homer, three RBI and three runs scored … senior left fielder Bruce Sprowl hit .462 (6-for-13) against the Gators with one double, three RBI and three runs … sophomore shortstop Michael Hollander collected four RBI at UF, including a two-run ninth-inning single in LSU’s Game 1 victory on Thursday … Hollander also launched a solo homer in Game 2 … senior third baseman/pitcher Will Harris earned the save in Thursday’s win at Florida, marking the fourth consecutive SEC weekend Harris has garnered either a save or a win for the Tigers … he also posted saves versus Arkansas (April 30) and at Auburn (May 6), and he earned a relief victory versus Vanderbilt (May 12).