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Student Government presi-dential runoff candidates Cody Wells of “Together LSU” and David Jones of “Defi ning Our Future” will debate tonight at an event hosted by Student Media .
The candidates will face off in the Tiger TV studio at 7 p.m., and the debate will air on Cam-pus Channel 75 before the runoff election.
All branches of Student Me-dia collaborated to host the de-bate, and a live viewing party will be held in the Live Oak Lounge of the Student Union.
The debate will not include Wells’ and Jones’ respective run-ning mates, Kathleen Bordelon and Kacey Brister.
Questions will come from a mix of Student Media represen-tatives and students. Students can still submit questions to [email protected].
Wells and Jones will face off about the issues dividing them as prospective candidates and poli-cymakers for the University.
Currently, Wells and Jones are most notably divided on is-sues regarding the Board of Supervisors seat, the Flag-ship Coalition and potential
constitutional action for protect-ing TOPS.
Wells said he will seek a Board of Supervisors seat, sup-ports a Constitutional amend-ment to protect TOPS and does not support the Flagship Coali-tion without a student voice.
Jones said he will not seek a Board of Supervisors seat and supports the Flagship Coali-tion. His running mate, Brister does not support a Constitutional amendment to protect TOPS.
The debate comes after former presidential candidate Aaron Caffarel fi led a complaint against David Jones for contact-ing members of his “NOW” cam-paign for support after Caffarel unsuccessful bid.
The University Court found Jones and Brister not guilty of breaking any election code provi-sions.
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University pilots new scheduling programSoftware prevents class repetition
SG runoff elections Tuesday online
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The University launched a pi-lot program Sunday to prevent stu-dents from rescheduling 1000- and 2000-level classes in which they have already earned a “C” or better.
Robert Doolos , University reg-istrar, said University policy states undergraduate students can’t repeat a course in which they’ve earned a “C” or better unless the class can be repeated for credit.
Doolos said currently a report at the end of the semester is posted of students who repeated classes, and for the past 15 or 20 years the University has seen students repeat-ing classes they shouldn’t but often couldn’t fi x the issues until it was too late.
“We don’t want to tell students after the fact,” Doolos said.
Doolos said the new program will take effect for scheduling for the summer intersession, fall semes-ter and winter intersession.
The current pilot program will only check 1000- and 2000-level classes, but upper level classes will be added to the program if it’s suc-cessful, Doolos said.
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[Top] OneRepublic performs Saturday night at Groovin’ on the Grounds. The event was hosted by Students on Target. [Bottom left] Jay Sean sings to a crowd of about 10,000 during the annual outdoor concert on the Parade Ground.
Music from OneRepublic, Jay Sean, Steel Magnolia, The Day-lights and Stone Rabbits resonated over the Parade Ground packed with about 10,000 people Satur-day at the annual Groovin’ on the Grounds concert.
“Music with a message” is or-ganizer Students on Target’s mission this year, and its goal is to promote “health and well-ness,” according to Beverly Suffern, SOT director. SOT held a wellness festival in conjunction with the con-certs Saturday featuring fun jumps, a rock climbing wall and Zumba ex-ercises on the Parade Ground.
Alcohol was not permitted at
the concerts due to University re-strictions.
Joshua Scott Jones, half of the Steel Magnolia duo, called Groovin’ a “celebration of music” and said he thought the no-alcohol policy was
fi tting, as there is a “time and a place for everything.”
Meghan Linsey, the other half of Steel Magnolia , is a native of Ponchatoula and said she felt at home performing at the Uni-versity.
“Just for the record, I am an LSU Tiger fan,” she said during Steel Magnolia’s performance.
OneRepublic said Groovin’ was the fi nale of a three-week “deep
OneRepublic headlines Groovin’ on the Grounds with about 10,000 in attendance
GROOVIN’, see page 6
Andrea GalloStaff Writer
Get into the Groove
Jones, Wells to face off in Student Media debate at 7 p.m.
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Magnitude-6.5 earthquake hits Japan; tsunami alert issued
NEW YORK (AP) — A magni-tude-6.5 earthquake shook eastern Japan off the quake-ravaged coast on Monday morning (2223 GMT Sunday), the U.S. Geological Survey reported, prompting Japan to issue a tsunami alert.
There were no immediate re-ports of damage or injuries, but the Japan Meteorological Agency an-nounced that a tsunami of up to 1.6 feet (a half meter) may wash into Miyagi Prefecture.
Hundreds of illegal Africans fl ee Libya by boat for Italy
ROME (AP) — Boatloads of il-legal African migrants have re-sumed setting sail from Libya for Italy, authorities said, overwhelm-ing tiny islands and towns in southern Italy already struggling to host thousands fl eeing unrest in Tunisia.
Before dawn Sunday, Ital-ian coast guard vessels escorted a boat crowded with 284 Somalis, Eritreans and Ethiopians to shore, the fi rst boat to resume the long-established routes of smugglers’ boats toward Italy from Libya’s long coastline.
Radiation found in Massachusetts, rainwater likely from Japan
BOSTON (AP) — Health offi cials said Sunday that one sample of Massachusetts rainwater has regis-tered low concentrations of radia-tion, most likely from the Japanese nuclear power plant damaged ear-lier this month by an earthquake and tsunami.
John Auerbach, the Massa-chusetts commissioner of public health, said that radioiodine-131 found in the sample — one of more than 100 that have been taken around the country — has a short life of only eight days. New York zoo closes Reptile House after cobra goes missing
NEW YORK (AP) — Offi cials have closed the Reptile House at New York’s Bronx Zoo after a poi-sonous Egyptian cobra disappeared from an enclosure that’s separate from the animal exhibits.
Zoo offi cials say the build-ing was immediately closed and secured after staff learned that the adolescent snake was missing Fri-day afternoon.
The zoo released a statement Saturday saying it’s confi dent the 20-inch-long snake is in an area of the building that’s not accessible to the public.
Term limits impact state legislative remapping, 17 unable to run again
(AP) — Although the redrawing of state political maps happens every decade in the Louisiana Legisla-ture, a new wrinkle is being ma-nipulated to shield incumbents and increase minority representation in this redistricting special session: term limits.
With six state senators and 11 state representatives unable to run again for their current seats, their districts are on the chopping block to protect other lawmakers’ re-elec-tion bids and boost the number of lawmakers representing majority black districts.
Two senators who can’t run again this fall are strongly objecting to the divisions of their districts to help create new minority districts.
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State considers using BP money for bicentennial celebrations
(AP) — State offi cials are look-ing at using some of the money BP PLC. gave Louisiana to cover the costs of putting on bicentennial celebrations next year.
Commissioner of Adminis-tration Paul Rainwater says Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration wants Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne to spend money his offi ce got from BP on bicentennial events.
South African government to launch its own newspaper
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government is launching a newspaper to rectify media censorship of government information, South Africa’s newly appointed government spokesman Jimmy Manyi said Sunday.
Manyi said it is the govern-ment’s responsibility to ensure me-dia don’t selectively publish gov-ernment news. The government is turning its bimonthly magazine into a 20-page, free, monthly newspaper called Vuk’uzenzele.
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The inside of Unit 4 at the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okumamachi, Fukushima Prefecture on Sunday.
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Hebert Law Center receives largest donation by a living donor
Paul M. Hebert Law Center Chancellor Jack Weiss announced the largest donation by a living do-nor — $600,000 — establishing the Nesser Family Endowed Chair in Energy Law on Friday.
According to guidelines by the Louisiana Board of Regents, $600,000 must be donated to set up an endowed chair before the Board of Regents will match the amount with another $400,000. The En-dowed Chair in Energy Law will be the second endowed chair to be granted to the Law Center.
The guidelines also indicate that a national eminent scholar will fill the endowed chair. The eminent scholar — who must meet perfor-mance standards including innova-tive teaching and contributions to the state’s economy — is prefer-ably selected from candidates out-side of the school, according to Board of Regents guidelines.
Weiss said the donation was the first step in building the foun-dation for energy law in Louisiana.
“I don’t see why, with the re-sources of LSU and the resources of the Law Center, we can’t make this the premier [energy law center in the country],” Weiss said.
The new endowed chair was provided for by 1973 law school alumnus John T. Nesser III, his son and 1999 Law Center alumnus J.T. Nesser IV, and his daughter Aman-da Nesser Moeller — a 2005 law school alumna, according a news release.
John T. Nesser III is the ex-ecutive vice president and CEO of McDermott International, Inc. J.T. Nesser IV is a partner with Porter Hedges Law Firm in Houston, and Amanda Nesser Moeller is a career counselor with Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, ac-cording to a news release.
Energy is the most important issue facing the United States now, Nesser said.
Nesser said the situations in Japan and the Middle East are em-phasizing the importance of energy for the country and the rest of the world.
Nesser said it is appropriate for the Law Center to be the premier energy law center in the country because of the University’s prox-imity to the Gulf of Mexico, which is the largest deep water source of energy in the world besides Brazil.
Weiss said he envisioned the development lasting only a few years. Weiss said it was only the first phase of development, and he expects more donations. Weiss said he’s optimistic about generating re-sources for the project.
“The family would be delight-ed if in three to five years the en-ergy center is taking its place as the leader in the industry,” Nesser said.
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Student sponsors benefit at Fred’s
An event at Fred’s on Saturday raised $840 for a woman’s medical expenses after she suffered a brain aneurysm Jan. 10.
Andrew Decker, first-year MBA student, said the event was an after party for the MBA golf tournament benefiting Boys Hope Girls Hope, and Fred’s agreed to give half the $10 cover from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. to help Leanne Davis, an accountant at United Scaffolding.
“Considering we competed with Groovin’ on the Grounds, I think it was pretty successful,” Decker said.
Decker, an Ohio native, said he met Davis through his internship at United Scaffolding during his time as an undergraduate, and the family became his “Louisiana family.”
“They helped me for four years, now I’m trying to help them,” Deck-er said.
Decker said Davis is working with Medicaid to pay the exorbitant amount of medical bills resulting from her treatment at the Neuromed-ical Center on Perkins Road.
Decker said the event was ad-vertised on the marquee for Fred’s, with Facebook event and by word of mouth.
He said he expected golfers, tournament volunteers and people from the MBA program to attend the event.
Decker said he also ran the Rock ‘n’ Roll marathon in New Orleans for Davis and on April 9 there will be a jambalaya dinner fundraiser.
Decker said the firefighters in Livingston cook jambalaya every Saturday and sell plates for $6 to
benefit an individual, organization or charity.
And Decker is open to sugges-tions for other fundraising opportu-nities.
“I’d love to do whatever I can,” Decker said.
He said he plans to continue organizing these types of events
for people in the future and having events at bars is a way to get students involved in helping charities because students typically don’t have much free time to give or funds to donate.
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Event raises $840 for patient’s medical bills
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Baton Rouge’s fi rst ever Irish-Italian parade rolled near the University’s campus Saturday af-ternoon in sunny spring weather.
The parade, which will be a new annual event, lasted about 30 minutes and traveled from Burbank Drive near Lee Drive to Walk-On’s Bistreaux and Bar on Nicholson Drive.
“Some people think just the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations are enough,” said Gary Brown , pa-rade organizer. “I didn’t think it was enough.”
The parade featured march-ing groups, a fi re truck and 15 fl oats from sponsors including Rotolo’s Pizzeria , The Chimes and Walk-On’s.
“It’s a Baton Rouge event and an Italian parade. We are an Italian business in Baton Rouge, so we wanted to get involved. It’s a perfect fi t,” said Mitch Rotolo, owner of Rotolo’s Pizzeria.
Rotolo said he was excited about the parade because it was the fi rst time a parade has been in an area so close to the Univer-sity’s campus.
“Everything is always down-town,” Rotolo said. “But who wants to go downtown? There’s nowhere to park.”
Laura Montelih , fl oat rider and Baton Rouge resident, said she was glad to see the parade as a new development for the city.
“The more in Baton Rouge, the better,” Montelih said. “You get to stay home, and it’s good for the economy and fun of Baton Rouge.”
Brown said Irish-Italian pa-rades are common all across the country.
“Baton Rouge’s rendition will fi ll a need in a community known for its huge Irish and Ital-ian populations,” said Brown in a news release.
Rotolo said the parade showed the community’s “huge infl uence” of Irish and Italians in the area.
“There weren’t many people out [at the parade], but the ones who were there were enthusias-tic,” said Ralph Snodgraff , Baton Rouge resident and fl oat rider.
Robert Hoch , engineering junior, said he “felt lonely” at the parade.
“I only saw about 12 other people [watching the parade],” Hoch said.
Matthew Spradley, business administration junior, said the small parade still has room to grow compared to other Baton Rouge parades.
“There’s really no compari-son,” Spradley said. “But this was just the fi rst year, so hopefully in a couple years people will start to recognize it.”
Brown said it’s diffi cult to gain attention the fi rst time, but he expects to garner more support for a bigger parade next year.
“It will only get bigger and better,” Snodgraff said.
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s execu-tive budget, which leaves general funding for higher education un-touched, relies on fi nding millions of dollars of effi ciencies through-
out state gov-ernment. But some policy-makers say dependence is too ambitious and could cause budget cuts further down the road.
In his presentat ion unveiling the budget, Com-missioner of
Administration Paul Rainwater said the Jindal administration es-timates the state can save $225 million by “reducing projected General Fund increases at contin-uation through funding effi cien-cies.”
Instead of simply making sweeping funding cuts to in-dividual programs — like the 32- percent cut for which higher education administrators were
told to prepare last semester — the administration seeks to make departments throughout the state more effi cient.
There are many such pro-posals in nearly every area of the state bureaucracy.
Several state agencies will consolidate into fewer offi ces, reducing overhead and personnel costs. The Department of Rev-enue , for example, will downsize from eight offi ces to three , serv-ing the north-central, southeast and southwest areas of the state.
Another example would con-solidate “back offi ce space” for the Louisiana State Police , the Governor’s Offi ce of Homeland Security and Emergency Pre-paredness and the Offi ce of Juve-nile Justice . These three programs would share human resources, fi -nancing and other administrative services.
Other effi ciencies will come from using technology to reduce overhead. For example, the bud-get chalks up $1.35 million in savings in the Department of Cor-rections for using “telemedicine” (the use of electronic communi-cations to diagnose prisoners), video court proceedings, security cameras and escape-proof “shaker fences.”
The administration says these techniques would reduce the num-ber of workers and the amount of bureaucracy, leading to savings.
Jindal’s budget counts the $225 million in effi ciencies in addition to $410 million in “stra-tegic reductions,” $110 million in reductions from the executive branch and $96 million in reduced positions.
Some policymakers — es-pecially state legislators — have said it’s unrealistic to demand $225 million in effi ciencies in ad-dition to those cuts.
“I’m very concerned that when we start budgeting these ef-fi ciencies so we can get through elections, we’ll be back here for a mid-year cut,” said Sen. Lydia Jackson , D-Shreveport , at the budget’s unveiling.
If the effi ciencies the admin-istration is counting on don’t ma-terialize, it’s likely state agencies could face midyear cuts when the state budget comes up short.
Jackson and several other legislators also argued state in-stitutions have already scrambled to trim most ineffi ciencies as the state has grappled with budget is-sues in the past two years.
Rainwater promised the Jindal administration has been “working overtime” to hunt down these effi ciencies, working close-ly with agencies throughout the state.
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BR’s fi rst Irish-Italian Parade rolls Saturday
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Revelers reach for beads Saturday during the Irish-Italian parade. The parade featured marching groups, a fi re truck and 15 fl oats from various sponsors.
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CHRISTINA FAMULARO WINS MISS LSU-USA AFTER SCORING MISHAP
Nola Fashion Week rocks La. sceneModels walk the runway Saturday at the Ogden Museum of Art
LEFT: photo courtesy of JENNY HALE; RIGHT: ADAM VACCARELLA / The Daily Reveille
[Left:] Christina Famularo is the winner of the 2011 Miss LSU-USA pageant held Sunday in the Student Union Theater. [Right:] Kaitlynn Fish is originally crowned by mistake due to a scoring mishap between the Top 10 and Top 5 levels. The mistake occurred when numerical scores from the Top 10 were applied to the Top 5, who are manually ranked by judges, said Jenny Hale, Delta Zeta alumna and pageant coordinator. “When the judges brought the item to our attention, we decided the only ethical thing to do was to let them vote.” Upon review, Famularo named the winner. Hale said pageant organizers “deeply apologize” to Fish and her family.
photos by EMILY SLACK / The Daily Reveille
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South” tour.“Let us always do a deep South
tour in the spring because it is beau-tiful,” said Ryan Tedder, OneRe-public frontman.
After the audience called OneRepublic back for an encore, Tedder exclaimed his happiness with the performance atmosphere.
“It could not end on a better night with a better crowd,” Tedder said of the tour.
Jay Sean called University alumna Lindsay McCrory up to the stage during his performance and sang to her. McCrory called Jay Sean “really nice” and joked about his attractiveness, saying his wife was standing on the side of the stage during his performance.
McCrory said OneRepublic was her favorite of the night.
Jay Sean, who hails from Eng-land, also referenced the Louisiana weather conditions during his per-formance.
“I have ... a mosquito on my face. This is something that does not happen in England,” he said.
Saturday was Jay Sean’s birth-day, and his DJ asked the audience to sing “Happy Birthday” as Suf-fern delivered a cake to Jay Sean onstage.
He performed his new song, “Hit the Lights,” and asked the au-dience to dance while he recorded them with his camera phone, saying he would post the video to YouTube.
“I want you to show the world how LSU gets down,” Jay Sean said.
Kim Nguyen, a student at Xavier University who came to Baton Rouge for Groovin’, called the series of concerts “a great atmosphere” and said she enjoyed
Jay Sean’s performance.“I like how he used the audi-
ence,” she said.Though the time lapse between
most sets was about 30 minutes, the crowd had to wait about an hour for Jay Sean’s performance, and ten-sions flared, nearly sparking a fight among crowd members.
The Daylights, who joined OneRepublic in its encore mash-up of cover songs, was the second band to perform at the concert. The Day-lights not only engaged the audi-ence during their performance, ask-ing them about a sense of belonging and teasing them about Harry Pot-ter, but lingered near the merchan-dise booth afterward to visit and take pictures with fans.
Stone Rabbits, the winner of SOT’s Battle of the Bands competi-tion in October, was the first band to perform Saturday. Several members stayed in the audience to watch the later bands perform.
Khristen Jones, SOT assistant director, said she thought the perfor-mances were “amazing.” Jones said while the day was busy and stress-ful, it was worth it to see so many students enjoying themselves.
Michelle Eldredge, associ-ate director for Campus Life, said she was pleased with the Groovin’ turnout, and the Parade Ground was filled the farthest back she had ever seen.
The concerts were open to the public and free, though student fees were used to fund them.
He said the program includes cross-listed classes.
Doolos said when students try to add classes in which they already earned a “C,” a message will appear on PAWS explaining why they can’t add the class and that they need to see someone in their college for as-sistance.
Doolos said some students re-peat classes intentionally to boost their GPAs and others unintention-ally repeat courses.
“Students trying to pad their GPA are keeping other students out,” Doolos said.
He said there are fewer sections for some courses, and the schedul-ing has become more difficult.
Doolos said deans requested the program to also keep students from re-enrolling in classes they
currently take because they want to speak with the student to see why they aren’t successful in the class.
Doolos said counselors, as-sociate deans and deans can make exceptions to the policy and enroll students in a class.
He said a problem the program could face is the response time when a student clicks the “add” but-ton. The pilot program will have to be removed if it causes too much delay, Doolos said.
“We will see how it works and monitor it very carefully,” he said.
Doolos said the program was designed by the Information Tech-nology Services and didn’t cost the University any extra money.
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SCHEDULING, from page 1
GROOVIN’, from page 1
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[Top] The Daylights perform Saturday afternoon during Groovin’ on the Grounds. The band was later invited to join OneRepublic’s encore. [Below left] Steel Magnolia performed Saturday as the sun set over the Parade Ground.
SportsMonday, March 28, 2011 page 7
The No. 11 LSU baseball team hadn’t played a double-header all season. After Sunday, it may not want to again.
The end of the weekend couldn’t get much worse for LSU (17-7, 1-5), which snagged the fi rst game of the series be-fore dropping both seven-inning games of Sunday’s doubleheader
against Georgia (11-13, 3-3). “We had a tough outing on
the mound in the fi rst game [of the doubleheader], and some miscues in the fi eld really hurt us in the second game,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri in a news release.
The Bulldogs took advan-tage of Saturday’s rainout to seal the series victory with a 3-2 win in the second game of the doubleheader, making LSU pay
for four errors. LSU had a chance to tie the
game in the top of the sixth inning when sophomore Beau Didier ran for junior transfer catcher Jordy Snikeris. However, Snikeris was thrown out at home plate trying to score from second base on a single to center fi eld by freshman catcher Ty Ross.
Three of LSU’s four errors came when it trailed 1-0 in the third inning.
Georgia junior second base-man Levi Hyams reached on a throwing error by freshman sec-ond baseman JaCoby Jones. LSU junior left fi elder Trey Watkins committed his second error of the game on a dropped fl y ball later in the inning which scored Hyams, doubling Georgia’s lead to 2-0.
Junior center fi elder Zach Cone then ripped an RBI sin-gle to left fi eld, increasing the
Bulldogs’ lead to 3-0. “We knew going into this
series that Georgia’s record was very misleading because they had played such a tough sched-ule,” Mainieri said. “They have a great deal of talent, and they made some big plays and clutch pitches today.”
LSU senior pitcher Ben Al-sup gave up three unearned runs
Rowan KavnerSports Writer
BASEBALL
Georgia beats LSU in series after Saturday rainout, 2-1
BULLDOGS, see page 15
Wright catches 3 TDs in scrimmage
Michael LambertSports Writer
Miles impressed by defense’s efforts
LSU Sophomore wide re-ceiver James Wright played in all seven home games last season but only caught one pass under the bright lights of Tiger Stadium in his fi rst year.
Wright , who is battling for the third wide receiver spot, gar-nered the limelight Saturday in Tiger Stadium during LSU’s sec-ond spring scrimmage, grabbing three touchdowns — one from each of the Tigers’ quarterbacks.
“He’s always had some tal-ent but he’s been more consis-tent,” said LSU coach Les Miles .
Sophomore quarterback Zach Mettenberger and senior quarterbacks Jordan Jefferson and Jarrett Lee each tossed a touchdown to Wright . Jefferson also rushed for a touchdown.
Mettenberger found the end zone a second time with a pass to redshirt freshman wide receiver Jarrett Fobbs .
Still, Miles believes Jeffer-son and Lee have the upper hand after eight spring practices.
“Mettenberger’s a very tal-ented guy, but I think the two veterans still have an advantage with the understanding of the of-fense,” Miles said.
The team ran 110 plays Sat-urday. They focused on red zone, short yardage and third-and-long plays.
Miles gave the nod to the Tigers’ defense in the second scrimmage.
“The defense kind of won the DAVID LYLE / The Daily Reveille
LSU junior Barrett Nugent starts on the 4x100 men’s relay on day two of the LSU Relays. Nugent helped the 4x100-meter relay team to a fi rst-place fi nish with a time of 39.43. To read about LSU’s fi rst home meet in the outdoor track and fi eld season, see page 8.
FOOTBALL
SPRING, see page 15
Records Fall
RECORDS BROKEN SATURDAY
• Pole Vault — Rachel Lauren, 14-2.5 (school record)
•Women’s 4x200 relay — 1:32.33 (Bernie Moore Track record)
•Men’s 4x200 relay — 1:20.99 (Bernie Moore Track record)
The LSU swimming team opt-ed for quality over quantity at this year’s NCAA Men’s Champion-ships.
While only two swimmers competed in the championships held in Minneapolis, Minn . at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center, they earned the Tigers 26th place, their highest fi nish since 2005 .
Senior Hannes Heyl broke the school record in the 100-yard but-terfl y preliminaries on Friday. Heyl had the third-fastest preliminary time, which qualifi ed him for the ‘A’ fi nal.
Shortly after swimming his 100-yard butterfl y, Heyl fi nished 28th in the 100-yard backstroke .
Heyl , an eight-time Honorable Mention All-American, fi nished 7th in the fi nals of the event to earn his fi rst career fi rst-team All-America honor .
“[Assistant Coach] Lance Asti has done a great job with him this season, and this morning was really the perfect environment for him to excel as he was able to relax with-out any relay swims,” LSU swim-ming coach David Geyer said in a press release. “That fi ts his person-ality really well, and he really went after it.”
Sophomore Craig Hamilton fi nished 35th in the 500-yard free-style Friday. He swam the race to prepare for the mile freestyle on Saturday.
Hamilton broke the school
record in the mile freestyle, with a time of 15:02.32. The strong time earned him 15th place and his fi rst career Honorable Mention All-Amer-ica honor .
H a m i l t o n swam in the mile at last year’s NCAA Championships and fi nished 30th .
“Craig had an incredible per-formance today,” Geyer said. “Craig swam his own race in his heat, and everything worked out great. He certainly learned from his experience here as a freshman for his swims this year.”
Heyl fi nished his LSU career with a personal best in the 100-yard freestyle . His time of 43.39 seconds earned him 23 rd place in the event.
Prior to the meet, Geyer said he expected the swimmers to fi nish in the top 15 of their events and earn
All-America sta-tus.
“Our goals were set high this year,” Geyer said. “But we are proud of Hannes and Craig for not only making it to the meet but scoring points for the pro-gram.”
C a l i f o r n i a captured its fi rst men’s national title in 31 years, which completes their sweep of the 2011 men’s and wom-en’s NCAA Championships.
The LSU relay teams stole the show in their fi rst action of the out-door season on a windy weekend at the LSU relays as the Tigers and Lady Tigers established three new stadium records and nearly swept the relay events.
The meet marked the debut of the Mondo surface at LSU’s Ber-nie Moore Stadium, and if the LSU relays were at all indicative of the future, school records could be des-tined to fall.
The 4x200 meter relay teams were particularly impressive Sat-urday.
In a span of 10 minutes, two stadium records fell to the 4x200 teams, and one school record
nearly perished.“This is a great start for us,”
said coach Dennis Shaver in a press release. “I’m proud of our teams and the way we competed this weekend as a group. We’re very much looking forward to another great competition next Saturday.”
The Lady Tigers were the fi rst on the blocks and easily dispatched the opposing schools in the race, beating second place Jackson State by nearly six seconds. Their mark of 1:32.33 beat the former stadium record by more than .3 seconds .
The Lady Tigers’ record-
setting relay team consisted of juniors Jonique Day and Semoy Hackett and sophomores Latoya McDermott and Kimberlyn Dun-can .
But the Tigers 4x200 relay team — who lined up in the fi rst heat after the women’s 4x200 me-ter fi nal — came close to breaking a 16-year-old university record .
When senior anchor Gabriel Mvumvure crossed the fi nish line, the Bernie Moore Stadium board fl ashed the team’s time: 1:21.00 .
The time was adjusted to 1:20.99 , which obliterated the for-mer stadium record by 1.29 seconds — an eternity in a sprint event.
“We did a pretty good job on our exchanges this weekend. I think that was really important for us today,” Mvumvure said. “I think we could have actually ran faster in the 4x200. It was tough for us on the second and anchor legs running into that strong of a headwind.”
The mark was also just .14
seconds shy of the LSU record set in 1995 .
While the stadium records were falling like dominoes, junior All-American Rachel Laurent add-ed a school record to her resumé in the women’s pole vault.
The event began at 2 p.m. Sat-urday, and Laurent remained on the runway until 4:30, as she continual-ly vaulted over the mark. Laurent’s fi nal mark of 14-2 1/2 cleared the school record in the event by an inch.
The fl ags were whipping for much of Saturday, leading to some times being thrown out because of an unfair wind advantage. But the wind was blowing across the track during the relay events, allowing the times to be wind-legal when ranking them nationally.
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TRACK AND FIELD
Stadium records fall at LSU relays on new Mondo surfaceLaurent sets school record in pole vaultLuke JohnsonSports Contributor
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SWIMMING
LSU takes 26th in championshipsAlbert BurfordSports Contributor
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Heyl, Hamilton deliver Tigers’ best NCAA fi nish since 2005
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LSU freshman Jasmin Stowers, left, and senior Tenaya Jones sprint Saturday in the 100 meter hurdles at the LSU Relays. The Tigers nearly swept the relay events.
‘‘last year’s NCAA ‘‘last year’s NCAA
‘[Hamilton] certainly learned from his
experience here as a freshman for his swims this year.’
David GeyerLSU swimming coach
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GOLF
Tigers in tie for second after first round at Bulls Bay
The LSU men’s golf team opened the Hootie at Bulls Bay Invitational on Sunday in a tie for second place at Bulls Bay Golf Club in Awendaw, S.C., and sits just one stroke off the lead after a stormy first round.
The No. 9 Tigers’ defense of its 2010 Bulls Bay title got off to a shaky start early in the round as
the team struggled on the front nine because of early tee times and blustery conditions.
But, with storm clouds hov-ering above the course, LSU ral-lied to post a 3-under-par 281 team score and waited as later groups stumbled to the finish to move up the leaderboard.
Senior All-American John Peterson was again the Tigers’ top performer, leading the team with a 3-under-par 68. Peter-son bogied his first hole of the tournament before carding four birdies and no bogeys the rest of the round to finish in a tie for fourth, just one shot off the
individual lead.Freshman Andrew Presley
continued his impressive rookie campaign by using an improb-able eagle 2 on the par-4 eighth hole — he drove the green on the hole — and 14 pars to card a 1-under-par 70 to end the day in a tie for 10th place.
Senior All-American An-drew Loupe bounced back from a string of early bogeys with three consecutive birdies to spur a back-nine score of 32 and post a 1-under-par 70 and place in a tie for 10th.
Junior Sang Yi began the first round strong with an even-par
front-nine 36 but couldn’t main-tain the steady play on the back nine, as he posted three bogeys on the way to a 2-over-par back nine and 18-hole total.
The invitational features one of the best fields LSU will face in the regular season, as 10 of Golfweek’s Top 50 teams in the country, including Southeastern Conference rivals No. 11 Auburn
and No. 3 Florida, are participat-ing this week.
The second round gets un-derway this morning with the Tigers in the thick of contention.
For the second-straight Sat-urday, the LSU men’s tennis team took on a top-10 Southeastern Conference foe, and the results were the same.
Saturday’s contest against No. 2 Tennessee ended closer than the 7-0 defeat No. 8 Georgia handed the Tigers, but the 4-3 loss against the Volunteers was never as close as the score indicated.
Tennessee’s John-Patrick Smith and Boris Conkic, the na-tion’s top doubles team, took down senior Sebastian Carlsson and ju-nior Neal Skupski, 8-3.
Rhyne Williams and Tennys Sandgren then disposed of LSU
s o p h o m o r e s Stefan Szacin-ski and Roger Anderson, 8-6, to capture the doubles point.
Smith, the No. 12 player in the country, knocked off LSU sophomore Olivier Bor-sos, 6-3, 6-3, and Sandgren dropped Szacin-ski in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1, to
increase the Tennessee lead to 3-0.Senior Julien Gauthier put the
Tigers on the board with a 6-3, 7-6 win against Jarryd Chaplin, but Skupski succumbed to No. 3 Wil-liams 6-4, 7-6, finishing the Tigers off.
“It was a very close and
hard-fought match,” said LSU men’s head coach Jeff Brown in a news release. “The difference in doubles was small, and it was very tight in singles.”
With the outcome decided, a pair of Tigers gutted out late vic-tories.
Carlsson bested Conkic, 6-4, 7-6, on court 5, and junior Mark Bowtell, the hero of Tuesday’s win against Nebraska, won his match against No. 52 Mateo Fago in a third-set super tiebreaker, 7-6, 2-6, 1-0.
“This match serves as mo-tivation for the guys to take care of the little details in practice to make themselves better the rest of the way,” Brown said, “There are still a lot of things this team can accomplish.”
Meanwhile, the Lady Tigers entered the weekend on a three-match SEC win streak, but a pair of top-25 teams proved too much for ladies’ coach Tony Minnis’ team.
LSU failed to win a match, losing 7-0 against both No. 7 Geor-gia and No. 21 Tennessee.
Junior college transfer Olivia Rowlett, who had been ineligible for the early portion of the spring, made her LSU debut Friday, but even her presence wasn’t enough.
“We need to get tougher and be able to take advantage of our opportunities when we get them,” Minnis said.
LSU drops three weekend matchesTENNIS
BLAIR LOCKHART / The Daily Reveille
LSU senior Julien Gauthier returns a shot March 22 against Nebraska. Gauthier recorded a singles win Saturday in LSU’s 4-3 loss against Tennessee.
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Peterson fires 68, ties for fourthChris AbshireSports Contributor
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‘This match serves as motivation for the guys ... to make themselves better the rest of the
way.’Jeff Brown
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Mid-majors indicate days of top-tier coaching jobs are over
For as long as there have been championships in college sports, there have been destination jobs.
It’s the one true difference between the haves and the have-nots.
The terms “mid-major” in college basketball and “non-auto-matic qualifier” in college foot-ball might as well mean “can’t win a championship.”
Even though there have been exceptions — BYU took home the 1984 national championship in football, and UNLV cut down the nets in 1990 — examples of smaller school success are few and far between.
Hence the coaching ladder: Win at one school, move to a bet-ter one. Wash, rinse and repeat.
That line of thinking com-pelled Gonzaga basketball coach Dan Monson to accept the Min-nesota coaching job after making the Elite Eight with the Zags in 1999. It’s also why Dan Hawkins moved on to Colorado following an extremely successful five-year tenure coaching Boise State foot-ball, where he compiled a 53-11 record.
Oh, how times are changing. When Butler coach Brad
Stevens led the Bulldogs to their first Final Four in school history in 2010, it seemed a given that he would move on to greener (read: richer) pastures.
Instead, the 34-year-old coach signed a contract extension to stay at Butler through the 2021-22 season.
With superstar Gordon Hay-ward departing for the NBA draft, the decision to pass up what was surely a bigger paycheck from more prominent schools was no doubt a difficult one.
Midway through the 2011 season, it also looked like the in-correct one.
In one five-game stretch, But-ler lost four games to conference foes, the last two of which came at the hands of Valparaiso and Youngstown State. The Bulldogs’ record was just 14-9. An NCAA bid looked unlikely.
They haven’t lost since. The Bulldogs reeled off seven
wins to close out the regular sea-son, won their conference tourna-ment and authored a remarkable return to the Final Four after beat-ing three of the top-four seeds in the Southeast Regional.
They are the first team outside the major conferences to make back-to-back Final Four trips since UNLV in 1990 and 1991.
It’s no fluke, either. Butler’s opponent in the na-
tional semifinal?None other than fellow out-
sider Virginia Commonwealth, who became just the third No. 11 seed to make the Final Four, along with LSU in 1986 and George
Mason in 2006. Still not convinced?Look at the 2010 college
football season.Hawkins, who moved to Col-
orado to win the national champi-onship he couldn’t at Boise State, is now unemployed after five con-secutive losing seasons.
Monson, who abandoned Gonzaga, was fired by Minneso-ta and now coaches Long Beach State.
Meanwhile, Chris Petersen, the man who replaced Hawkins and has insisted he can win at Boise State, came within a missed field goal of potentially playing in the BCS championship game.
Shortly after the Broncos de-feated Virginia Tech to open the 2010 season, ESPN.com writer Arash Markazi recalled a conver-sation in which Petersen said he would never leave Boise State.
“It’s an amazing lesson for anyone who thinks they have to go to this place, this school, this city, etc. to make it big,” Markazi tweeted.
Nearly seven months later, two coaches from schools who many think have no business play-ing for a championship will face off for the right to do exactly that.
VCU coach Shaka Smart will undoubtedly have the same deci-sion to make after this season as Stevens did last season. It may not be the exact same situation, but he would be wise to consult Stevens before jumping at the highest of-fer.
The grass may be richer on the side, but it’s not always greener.
FIRST AND GINN
Ryan GinnSports Blogger
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I am writing in response to Ms. Amanda Mills’ article and her opposition to the Kick Butts Day and to LSU becoming a smoke-free campus. She says that “we are a country that prides itself of freedom and rights,” to which I can only respond, “Whose rights?” I happen to be one of the people on this cam-pus who are unfortunate enough to have bronchial asthma. Aren’t my rights as important as anyone else’s?
It is a source of constant frus-tration and danger for me to try to get to my classes where there is a horde of smokers blocking the entrance to nearly every build-ing. Wen I try to get to Middleton Library to do some research for one of my classes, and where I am employed as a tutor with the Center for Academic Success, there are so many smokers that I often need to use my emergency inhaler after entering the library. This is despite the fact that there are clear signs saying that smok-ing is forbidden within 25 feet of the Middleton entrance. When I try waiting for a bus to take me home, there are so many smokers that I often have to take refuge
in the Journalism Building lest I have an asthma attack.
For me, avoiding cigarette smoke is not a matter of con-venience — it is a matter, quite literally, of life and death. I have had to undergo emergency-room treatments as a result of second-hand smoke. This is both danger-ous and expensive for me. For-bidding smoking on campus may
be inconvenient for the smokers, but by requesting that they wait until they are elsewhere to in-dulge, I’m in no way endanger-ing them; I, however, cannot get away from their cigarette smoke.
It is probably difficult for smokers to understand how sensi-tive people like me can be to cig-arette smoke. I am equally sure most non-smokers are not placed
in danger by merely smelling second-hand smoke. But all of us are not so lucky. Having to navi-gate a smoke-filled campus for an asthmatic is as dangerous for me as avoiding gunfire would be for anyone else.
I am sure this article will change few minds, but please try to keep in mind that when you go outside a building and smoke
near the entrance, I can’t go in. The Louisiana climate is bad enough without having to evade smokers as well.
Arundhati Bakshi,biological sciences sophomore
Amid their everyday suc-cesses that have become com-monplace, many women forget about the history, or should I say “herstory,” that brought us here.
Maya Angelou, Abigail Ad-ams and Gloria Steinem are just a few of the women that changed the way we live and think about our lives, and while we should spend the remainder of Interna-tional Women’s Month thanking them, we should also spend it thinking about ourselves.
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, pollution has gone up and so have the instances of breast cancer. According to Cor-nell University researchers, “It is possible that early exposure to some environmental factors in-creases the risk for breast cancer later in life.”
Cornell researchers define environment as all those factors
other than what’s inherited like chemical exposure, diet and life-style choice, and they claim the environment could be the cause of half of all breast cancer cases.
But if it’s the environment and our lifestyle choices contrib-uting to such a detrimental health issue in women, then there’s a chance we could combat the mon-ster early. As an effort to take bet-ter advantage of Women Herstory Month, here are some ways to potentially positively impact your health by making small shifts in your everyday responsibilities whether you’re a student, teacher or just a dedicated Reveille read-er:
Try to eat organic foods. I know there’s a lot of controversy regarding the movement from normal produce to the so-called “better alternative,” but facts show pesticides are pretty potent.
And I think you know pes-ticides aren’t good for you. The Daily Green, an online guide to
green living, took note of the 23 highest pes-ticide-contami-nated fruits and vegetables. In leafy greens, for example, there are of-ten more than 50 pesticides
including 10 that are known as probable carcinogens by the USDA.
Apples and strawberries should also be organic purchases.
But organic eating isn’t the only aspect of the environment that impacts breast cancer risk.
According to the EPA, the inside of a household probably contains 200 to 500 times higher
concentrations of 20 toxic sub-stances, some of which are linked to cancer and others that are linked to birth defects.
Where are most of the toxins coming from? Our cleaning prod-ucts contain chemicals like Cad-mium, Crystalline Silica and Pa-ra-dichlorobenzene, which are all not only carcinogens but are also found in products like oil colors, cat litter and moth repellents, re-spectively. It’s time to clean up your cleansers because they could be costing you your health.
IRIN humanitarian news and analysis company recorded in 2007 Pakistan’s leather tanneries were threatening the lives of the people in nearby towns by letting 9,000 cubic meters of waste dis-charge into water on a daily basis. According to IRIN, that contami-nation could have been respon-sible for 70 percent of the area’s
diseases. If you think this doesn’t influence you, then you’re wrong. We import our leather from coun-tries just like Pakistan.
But as women, taking charge of our health is more important than ever as we honor our her-story and begin to realize our true potential. This month is a time to take into account the changes we can make to our diets and our life-styles so that we may better pros-per in the future.
Priyanka Bhatia is a 19-year-old freshman with a pre-veterinary medicine major and a minor in environmental management sys-tems. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_Pbhatia.
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NEW YORK CITY, NY (UWIRE) – The United Nations-supported operation, and Opera-tion Odyssey Dawn has, so far, been a success. However, with-out making a clearer goal for the operation and taking more de-finitive actions, the coalition of Western Allies risks jeopardizing the cause of the entire operation.
The resolution adopted by the Security Council on March 17 authorizes Member States “to take all necessary measures … to protect civilians.” To carry out this resolution, a coalition of Western Allies started a series of extensive airstrikes and missile attacks against military targets in Libya last Saturday, which severely undermined Qaddafi’s ability to resist a no-fly zone.
Although the early phase of the operation has been success-ful, its cause still remains short-sighted. The purpose of the entire assault, as stated in the resolu-tion, is “to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack,” which reflects the Security Council’s attempt to reiterate that the ultimate cause of the effort is not to fight for one side in a war, but to protect inno-cent civilians.
However, it is unclear how Western Allies will remain the apolitical guardians of innocent civilians in Libya without choos-ing a side in the Libyan civil war.
Most world leaders do not want to get involved in a
large-scale, prolonged armed conflict.
Having realized the risk of waging a full-blown war against pro-Qaddafi forces, the United Kingdom’s Chief of the Defense staff, General Sir David Rich-ards, stated Qaddafi is “abso-lutely not” a target for military action. President Barack Obama also said U.S. strikes on Libyan air defenses and military airfields “will be limited in their nature, duration and scope.”
However, a lukewarm re-sponse from the international community to the Libyan situ-ation may undermine the very cause of the resolution. Imposing no-fly zones and an arms embar-go will surely increase the reb-els’ chance against pro-Qaddafi forces, but it will not guarantee a smooth takeover of the nation by the rebels who are relatively unorganized and untrained. Qad-dafi, who vowed “a long war,” is expected to insist on fighting with his highly trained tribal para-military forces and mercenaries who have been loyal to him so far. Without implementing more comprehensive military interven-tion of Western countries, which may involve the use of ground forces, prolonged armed conflicts between pro-Qaddafi forces and rebel fighters seem unavoidable.
In the worst case, Libya may fall into a long anarchic period during which a bloody civil war between the rebels and pro-Qad-dafi forces persists.
America and its coalition is
now faced with a daunting conun-drum. As a permanent member of the Security Council, America is obliged to play a vital role in car-rying out the resolution. Stopping the escalation of civilian casual-ties, and ultimately fulfilling the humanitarian cause of the resolu-tion, requires more than simply enforcing the stated no-fly zone
and arms embargo. Yet, the oppo-sition remains strong. American forces are already overstretched in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the U.S. government still needs to deal with its soaring budget deficit. In this situation, sending ground troops to Libya would be its least favorable option.
As the situation develops,
Americans will be asked to make tough decisions. A smart course of action will put an end to the murder of innocent civilians while minimizing American in-tervention in Libya, but how is Obama leading us there?
In a report issued March 16, the Department of Justice deliv-ered an unfortunate truth to the New Orleans government:
“For far too long, the New Orleans Police Department failed to adequately protect the citizens of the city.”
In arguably the most promi-nent city in Louisiana, a failure to sufficiently police the streets is a travesty.
According to the “scathing” report (which doesn’t even men-tion the 20 federal cases made against New Orleans police of-ficers in the last three years), the NOPD has been found system-atically guilty of excessive force, racial profiling and LGBT dis-crimination, among various other failures.
This hardly comes as a sur-prise to anyone who has visited, lived in or read about New Or-leans. Mayor Mitch Landrieu himself was not surprised at its content, having requested the in-vestigation in May.
To successfully reform the NOPD, the next step is to enter
into a consent decree with the DOJ — “a binding judicial de-gree officially memorializing a voluntary agreement between two parties.” The agreement usu-ally involves the restructuring of
police policy, training and re-cruitment.
It’s a step in the right direction, but some people don’t seem to think so.
Like any f a r- r each ing
political decision, entering into a consent decree engenders one of two emotions — either embit-tered discontent or overpowering relief.
Detractors see the move as an encroachment of state sovereign-ty, as well an attack on the city’s integrity.
This point of view has al-ready been demonstrated in New Orleans. Jim Gallagher, spokes-man of the New Orleans Fraternal Brotherhood of Police, said in a
statement the federal government will receive no cooperation from the group’s 1,200 or so members because (so he claims) the report puts honest officers on the same level as corrupt ones.
Balderdash.The report clearly states on
the first page of text that “the ma-jority of the force is hardworking and committed to public safety,” but “too many officers of every rank either do not understand or choose to ignore the boundaries of constitutional policing.” More-over, the view is restated in a let-ter to Mayor Landrieu accompa-nying the report.
Negative sentiments like Gallagher’s are poison to this ini-tiative to end corruption. If the plan is to succeed, then the coop-eration, input and goodwill of the people of New Orleans is not just desired, but necessary.
There are obvious difficulties involved in the process of reor-ganizing a corrupt police depart-ment, not the least of which is the unfortunate conundrum of how to police the police.
This isn’t the first time some-one has tried to reform the NOPD — Mayor Ernest “Ditch” Morials attempted to overhaul the police department in the late 1970s and early 1980s to no avail, while in the 1990s, feds considered step-ping in to reorganize a failing system but instead chose to al-low then-Police Chief Richard Pennington to oversee a series of reforms without judiciary over-sight.
Obviously, neither of those programs stuck. Good tries, though.
Reaching out to the federal government was the inevitable next step.
The DOJ has drawn up con-sent decrees with several cities, including Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Detroit, some of the most no-toriously crime-ridden commu-nities in the nation. Mostly, the effects have been positive, with little to no perceivable negative impact.
And luckily, the changes seem to have a habit of sticking around.
A study issued by the DOJ in 2003 claims Pittsburgh’s level of success after the lifting of the consent decrees was equal to when the consent decrees were in place — in other words, a major improvement.
Of course, compliance isn’t easy. After 11 years of struggling, Detroit just recently failed to meet its deadline in implementing the stipulations.
The overall benefits of the deal seem to be perfectly clear. If nothing else, the attempt is some-thing new and different for a city whose corruption has spanned practically the entirety of its ex-istence.
Macy Linton is a 19-year-old in-ternational studies freshman from Memphis, Tenn. Follow her on Twitter @TDR_Mlinton.
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in three innings of work. Only one of the combined fi ve runs in the game was earned.
Junior center fi elder Mikie Mahtook put the Tigers on the board with a solo home run to left fi eld in the fourth inning for his second long ball of the weekend.
Junior short-stop Austin Nola followed with a double to center fi eld. He moved to third base on a groundout and scored on a throw-ing error by Geor-gia’s sophomore shortstop Kyle Farmer, inching LSU closer, 3-2.
Watkins was pulled in the bot-tom of the fourth inning as Edward took over in left fi eld and junior Mike Lowery moved to fi rst base.
Freshman pitcher Ryan Eades also entered in the fourth inning and pitched three
scoreless innings. LSU loaded the bases with
two outs in the fi fth inning but went away empty-handed as No-la’s deep fl y to center fi eld was tracked down.
The Tigers couldn’t over-come their mishaps in the sec-ond game of the doubleheader
the way Georgia could in the fi rst Sunday game.
Georgia fell behind early but persevered through three er-rors and scored six runs in the second inning en route to a 9-5 vic-tory.
All six sec-ond-inning runs were earned as Georgia blasted six hits against freshman pitcher
Kevin Gausman, who lasted only two innings in his shortest outing of the season.
“This was the fi rst [South-eastern Conference] road series for a lot of our players, so it was
a learning experience for them,” Mainieri said.
Junior third baseman Tyler Hanover and Mahtook hit RBI singles in the third inning, and Nola added a two-run single to cut the lead to 6-5.
Georgia got one run back in the bottom half of the inning and put the game away with two runs in the fi fth inning on a solo home run and an RBI sacrifi ce fl y.
The highlight of the week-end for LSU was pitcher Kurt McCune’s performance in LSU’s 7-3 win Friday. The freshman al-lowed three runs in the fi rst com-plete game for the Tigers this season, striking out seven and walking one.
LSU hit two home runs in the game, including Mahtook’s fi rst since March 4 on a two-run shot to left fi eld.
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BULLDOGS, from page 7
day,” Miles said. “We moved the football on offense at times, and I think we rushed the ball with regularity, but the defense came up with bigger plays at times.”
Miles complimented fresh-man defensive tackle Anthony Johnson , who recorded two solo tackles, and sophomore corner-back Tyrann Mathieu .
Mathieu has continued to earn praise after a stellar fresh-man season, which was capped by a defensive MVP performance at the Cotton Bowl.
“He got a pick today and has made some big plays,” Miles said. “He had a very good day in both the return game and on de-fense.”
Redshirt freshman safety Sam Gibson also had an intercep-tion, and senior middle lineback-er Ryan Baker recorded a sack.
On the offensive side, red-shirt freshman Jakhari Gore , who had a 35-yard run Saturday, has returned to the running backs af-ter spending time with the wide receivers last season.
“[Gore] made some really nice runs,” Miles said. “I want to see him more and more.”
Miles said freshman running back Kenny Hilliard was absent from the scrimmage.
“He had a personal issue that required some attention,” Miles said.
Junior defensive end Lavar Edwards was out again with an injured ankle.
LSU will begin its fourth week of spring practices Tues-day.
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‘‘‘We had a tough
outing on the mound in the fi rst game, and some
miscues in the fi eld that really hurt us in the second game.’
Paul MainieriLSU baseball coach
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