BATON ROUGE - After experiencing a little drama in Friday's opener of the Baton Rouge Regional against fourth-seeded East Carolina, UL had to play the waiting game to find out today's opponent in the championship bracket.
The matchup with more storylines than a soap opera was finally set after top-seeded LSU mercy-ruled No. 4 Mississippi Valley State, 8-0, in five innings in Friday's nightcap at Tiger Park.
With opening day wins by both 16th-ranked UL (47-12) and 15th-ranked LSU (43-16), the two teams will face off at 1 p.m. today in the first meeting between the teams in two years. Just in case you've been living in a swamp without electricity for the past decade, here's why you should care about this rematch in a series LSU leads 13-3.
Sometimes silence is deafening. Two nationally ranked programs separated by 50 miles have not played each other in the regular season since 2001. Two years have passed since they played in the 2006 Baton Rouge Regional, in which LSU grabbed two victories against the Cajuns to clinch the region title.
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Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • May 17, 2008