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It's Off the Bench.
Speaker 3: Welcome in our number three here on a Monday edition
of Off the Bench. Taylor Shar for Ladravillarrial Braxton, Risuto
all along with you here on this Monday morning. We've
had a jam pack show pretty much baseball about eighty
percent of the show. We squeeze in a little LSU
and Saints football, but for the majority it has been
LSU baseball, and rightfully so.
Speaker 4: The Tigers put up a heck of a lot of runs.
Speaker 3: Landra mentioned earlier forty nine strikeouts over the first three games,
and that is a program record as well. So at
times they have looked dominant over the Milwaukee Panthers. They
will take one the Kent State Golden Flashes tonight, Kent
State three and oh, by the way, three wins over
the Southeastern Lions. So a little bit step up in
competition for the Tigers, but they should get this one done.
Speaker 4: Coming up.
Speaker 3: We're gonna weekend winners here in just the second Devin
Snow had to be tabled to tomorrow's He'll join us
tomorrow nine to fifteen. He had to push that back.
So we'll talk a little women's basketball. We got some
news a team has moved up into the FCS ranks
from the FBS level, so they are moving up a
level in competition as effective as of next football season.
So we'll get into all of that, and then we'll
close it out as we do every day, with a
little ass the bench. We got women's basketball coming up
right now, though we do it every Monday around this time,
Let's do some weekend winners.
Speaker 2: That's how win it has done. That's right.
Speaker 5: We can't have anyone to freak out out there.
Speaker 6: Okay, he's got a k bark apologer got too far.
Speaker 2: I'm by winning. I went here and I win there.
Speaker 5: Now, what are you doing what it takes to win
a championship?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 2: Winning?
Speaker 7: Well, then I guess there's only one thing left to do.
Speaker 4: What's that.
Speaker 2: Win the whole thing?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Weekend winners? Who wants to go first? If not, I
will go.
Speaker 7: I was just gonna give a week in winner to
the LSU baseball program as a whole. I mean, you
outscored Milwaukee forty one to fifteen this weekend.
Speaker 8: So for the people that.
Speaker 7: Were, you know how people are, there's always gonna be
like a group of people that are like, well they
just that.
Speaker 3: Wasn't enough, you know, I saw I saw it after
the five three Saturday.
Speaker 8: It's a little too close. Okay, let's relax, let's chill out.
Speaker 7: But like the the score over the whole entire weekend,
I feel like tells the story. You had an extremely
productive offense this weekend and an extremely effective and efficient
bullpen as well. So just a overall weekend winner to
the entire baseball program and opening weekend as a whole
practicing what you got.
Speaker 4: Let's see.
Speaker 6: So I wasn't gona bring up the LSUS Softballs a loser,
but I figured you had to lose this. I was
gonna bring up a winner. So for the All Star Game,
you had it. We had a different format this time.
Speaker 1: You had your.
Speaker 4: World versus your story.
Speaker 6: The stars were put up, I mean, the USA was
built up in the two teams your stars and stripes.
And so the MVP of the All Star is Anthony Edwards.
He had thirty two points in total of the All
Star weekend. That was probably, I guess, the most entertaining part,
just because I mean, the Dunk Contest three point contest,
it's not the same anymore. It's it's nothing really special.
I didn't look at the I didn't watch it all.
The Dunk Contest they get the most random players in it.
But I guess the All Star All Star Game kind
of made up for everything.
Speaker 4: What's the celebrity game?
Speaker 3: Ivan Tacko fall on your team at seven foot six
seems like an unfair advantage. The guy had twenty six
rebounds and his team obviously won.
Speaker 4: I don't I don't love that. Maybe make him sit
that out.
Speaker 3: Wee can loser for me is the NBA Dunk Contest
like the user games I see people do with ease
in games like we just run out of ideas of
the Dunk Contest. If that's fine, you can repeat. You
could repeat it dunkins. It's not a big deal. Do
something with a little bit of difficulty. I mean I
watched the first round. I turned it off after the
first round. I don't even see who won, how impressive
their donk was. Didn't care the first round completely turned
me off. But my first weekend winner. If anybody out
there did not see this, Baylor played New Mexico.
Speaker 4: State over the weekend.
Speaker 3: They got the win on Friday night and blowout fashion.
And the reason they got that winner, A big reason
why was first baseman Tys Armstrong. Tyson Armstrong hit not one,
not two, but three Grand slams in the same game.
Speaker 4: That is the first time.
Speaker 3: Anyone wondering how long that's happened, first time in fifty years.
So Louisville's jim La Fountain hit three, two of them
actually in the same inning way back in nineteen seventy
six against Western Kentucky. Has not happened again. So he
three grand slams twelve RBI. Only thirteen major league players
ever have hit two Grand slams in the same game,
and nobody's done that since two thousand and nine. So
whether it's college, whether it's professional, you can kind of
see how rare that was. I don't know if anybody
saw that, but I mean they were no doubters too.
I think the first one was four hundred and seven
feet so it was quite a bit on that one.
And yeah, I mean, obviously they win that game like
sixteen seventeen to two wound up being the final score.
But Tyson Armstrong a bad way to kick off your
twenty twenty six baseball season opening night. Three Grand slams
for our guy, Tys Armstrong, my first weekend winner.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go weekend winner Nebraska softball. They beat Texas
Tech yesterday, which if you know anything about Texas Tech softball,
you know they got a million dollar pitcher. Million dollar
pitcher is not gonna do too much for you, though,
if you can't get everything else done. And I think
that was the first time that Kennedy gave up two
back to back extra base hits ever in her career.
Speaker 4: The first time Jesus that she.
Speaker 7: Gave up back to back extra base hits. So I'm
sure she's gave up some hits before, but extra base hits.
They hit a home run and then like a double
off of her. So Nebraska softball looks like they're gonna
be a problem for a lot of people this season.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: They I mean, they didn't have a perfect weekend at
the Invitational, but they look pretty good.
Speaker 4: They did.
Speaker 3: They win that invitational overall. I mean, everybody like wins
the invitation.
Speaker 8: I thing maybe I don't know, they keep it.
Speaker 6: On the softball side. Your loser could be LSU softball.
I mean they had a good start. I guess they
didn't play anybody too special. The one even have a
good start, but they were winning.
Speaker 8: Won one game.
Speaker 6: It wasn't even that good. No, but like they lost
to Nebraska zero to six. Oklahoma State they won that one. However,
they lost a Duke UCF and then they got shut
out by u C l A.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we'll actually get into that next segment.
Speaker 7: You and like what I said at the beginning of
the season that I thought was going to be a problem,
it's the bullpen. I don't know why you can't have
like more than one or two pitchers that can give
you a great game. But it's and then when your
bullpen's not being productive, and then you have an offense
that goes cold.
Speaker 8: For some reason at some points, it's not gonna be
a good It's not gonna be good for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean what they their only win was there
only any sort of life on offense that they had
all weekend long. Rerex and I put up a video
just a second ago. You can play it now. Don't
need it with sound or anything. My weekend loser is
going to be the Canada curling team. One of their
one of their players, was flagged by an official for
pushing the rock with his finger after he let it go,
and I mean he goes on a he goes on
a tirade of of what it of Like he's talking
back to the officials saying he didn't do it. That's
the guy right there, and the official says, you know,
point black, I didn't want to play it because he's
yelling expletives as the rule expert talks to it.
Speaker 4: You could see it right here.
Speaker 3: I mean he extends the finger, pushes it, so they
penalized him for it. That role didn't count. Sends being
called out by the official. That same guy for Canada
has actually done that again and again their role didn't count.
I don't know if he's going to be disqualified for
the remainder of the Olympics or what, but he's done
it multiple times. You see right there, the extra push
with the finger, and then you know he started yelling
at the official, you know, fu f this and you
know I've never touched it.
Speaker 4: Why would you even say I did that?
Speaker 3: And I mean it's it's clear as day, and they
went back and looked and he's actually done it multiple times.
So leave it to our dirty little brothers up there
in the Great White North to cheat in the Olympics
of all sports. But I mean you could see right there.
I mean he clearly gives it a little bit of
extra push there with his fingers. So first weekend loser
for me, the Canada men's curling team.
Speaker 8: All right, I don't have any more.
Speaker 3: So my next weekend winner is going to be USA hockey.
Have you guys seen what they've been doing in the
in the Olympics right now. So USA hockey a perfect
three and ohero in the Olympics right now. They'll play
the quarterfinal round coming up on one Wednesday night. They
are not just winning, they are dominating teams and coming
into the Olympics, I mean, I'm sure a lot of people,
you know, even if you're not that in touch with
with hockey, you watched the four Nations faceoff last year,
the electric battles between the US and Canada, and I'm
sure a lot of you got into it.
Speaker 4: I know I did.
Speaker 3: Coming into the Olympics, a lot of people said last
year's team was better than this year. I would have
to thoroughly disagree. I mean, they beat Latvia on Thursday
five to one, when Saturday they take down Denmark six
to three, and that was a game Denmark got off
to a hot start. US wasn't an issue though, and
then yesterday against Germany they have another dominant five to
one victory. So I mean three dominant performances in a
row from USA Hockey, giving up just four goals total
in three games and scoring sixteen, So you've outscored your
opponents sixteen to five in the first three games of
this Olympics.
Speaker 5: Again.
Speaker 3: You will play the quarterfinals on Wednesday, to be determined
on when the opponent is but it will take place
Wednesday afternoon around four o'clock our time, so probably be
locked into that. But weekend winner for me USA Hockey
and also USA Hockey uniforms like I don't know if
anybody's looked at these the white ones, they have have
not changed a ton since you look at that incredible
miracle on ice team that beat the Soviet Union way
back in you know, they need the movie Miracle about
it to win Olympic gold. But they haven't changed a
whole lot since then, and I just think they're iconic,
iconic uniforms.
Speaker 4: I mean, great job by whoever designed those.
Speaker 3: They've kept them going all these years, but excellent job
all the way around the Unicombos. The performance US is
looking really good in the Olympics as a whole right now,
but USA Hockey obviously carrying their weight.
Speaker 4: Does anybody else have anything?
Speaker 6: I'm just looking through city college basketball. I know that Arizona,
number one team in the country, lost back to back. Yeah,
I lost to Kansas and a big one without Dan Peterson.
Speaker 4: And the Texas.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a big time weekend lose.
Speaker 3: I mean a lot of people thought that Arizona was
going to be the dominant team in college basketball and
it's two games. They they still maybe, but to lose
to Kansas without Darren Peterson, who's going to be a
top five pick and next year's NBA.
Speaker 6: Draft, I mean, he just doesn't play, I know.
Speaker 3: But I mean that's everybody is saying, play a lottery pick.
Speaker 6: He played against Iowa State on Saturday. They lost by
eighteen with Darreon Peterson. But I mean, I mean.
Speaker 3: They look it's something that everybody else sees that that
maybe we don't. I mean, every every NBA scout, every analyst,
all this says a lottery pick.
Speaker 4: And uh, all right, that's.
Speaker 3: Gonna do it for our weekend winners. When we get back,
We're gonna we're gonna double up on women's sports.
Speaker 4: We are going to talk L s U Versus.
Speaker 3: Uh, Well, everybody over there in the Shriners clear Water Classic.
Not a great weekend for your LSU softball team. They
played five games over a three day period. Will break
all that down, and then we'll recap L s U
Versus South Carolina women's basketball that occurred on Saturday night.
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Speaker 3: Right, welcome back in off the bench here on a Monday,
Tyler Sharpen for Jacob Hester and Matt Flynn. What I
want to look at right now? We'll got you two
topics in one segment. LSU softball, LSU women's basketball, because
both of them. That's some big time games over the weekend.
We'll start with LSU softball. They were undefeated, perfect on
the season headed into the Shriners Clearwater Classic. If you remember,
they played two games on Thursday, then they had a Friday,
two on Saturday, one on Sunday, so five games over
a four day period. They play Agains tomorrow night as well.
But it really couldn't have gone much worse for bet
THRENA squad. If we're being completely honest, they fall in
game one to Nebraska, six to oh Nebraska their freshman
pitcher on the mountain. She was absolutely dominant. LSU battled
a little bit earlier behind Early in that game, behind
Jaden Heavener couldn't get anything going against the Cornhuskers pitching staff.
I mean, that's just where it was like. It wasn't
even Jordi Ball or Jordi From. We should say now
they started a freshman.
Speaker 4: She was great.
Speaker 3: Then they put in Jordy From with a multiple run lead.
Anytime you do that, you feel pretty good about your
chances to win the game behind her on the mound,
much less with a multiple run lead. So they blanked
the Tigers six nothing against Nebraska. Again, there were times
I thought that Heavener battled early on. You just couldn't
get anything going offensively. I mean you had a few
hits here and there, but you just could not string
anything together, not enough hits to bring any runners across
the play. So they fall there, but they bounce back
Thursday evening against Oklahoma State. They win that game nine
to four. It was the story of your big players
making plays. Julia lassiterters here, Daniel and Tory Edwards in
that game combined to go seven of twelve with six
runs scored and five RBIs I mean, that's that's your
entire offense, right There was those three, which is fine
as long as they could do that consistently. I just
when I look at this lineup one through nine, I
just I don't see the consistency that we've seen in years.
Pass Like Sierra Daniel tear the cover off the ball.
We had bet three to oh one last week. Talking
to Jake and Matt, she raved about Torri Edwards. That's
a player that's been in this program for multiple years
that has done a really nice job. But you can't
just rely on those players. You need a little bit
more balance. One through nine.
Speaker 5: C C.
Speaker 3: S Luum was the pitcher for LSU. She got the
win against Oklahoma State. She went the whole game, gave
up four runs, only three strikeouts, but then again only
walked two, so not a ton of strikeouts, but didn't
give up a ton of free passes as well.
Speaker 4: So you're one and one. You had a.
Speaker 3: Stinker against Nebraska, you bounce back against Oklahoma State. You're
feeling okay, we're right where we thought we might be
one and one after the first two games. If you
can go in a little bit of a run, and
they did not, you then fall to Duke five to three.
Even her back out on the mound there after Nebraska
and honestly had another rough outing five k's, but gave up,
walked four, gave up five earned runs in that ball
game to lose to Duke. Lassiter was great again. She
contributed three of the six hits in that ball game. Again,
your big players stepped up, Sierra Daniel, Joel, Lassiter, Tory Edwards.
Speaker 4: They were all good.
Speaker 3: It was the players around them that needed to step
up in a big way to get these wins, and
they just didn't do it.
Speaker 4: So you fall to Duke five to three.
Speaker 3: Then you have UCF a winnable game, not in the
top twenty five. So the three top twenty five teams
you played, Nebraska, Duke, Ucla. Okay, you see F a
chance to bounce back. No, it's probably your most disappointing
game of the weekend, five to one loss to the
UCF Golden Knights. Again, you can't score runs. Lasted great
once again. She went three for three up there at
the top of that lineup, not much help from anyone else,
and then you try to cap things off.
Speaker 4: Maybe can you scratch, can you call?
Speaker 3: Can you pull out a win against a top twenty
five team to maybe get this thing going in the
right direction. After a bad Shriner's Clearwater Invitational No. Eight
to nothing lost to the UCLA Bruins. And UCLA is
a really good team. But guess what, ls you couldn't
score any runs. It was kind of the story of
the weekend for the Tigers. They actually threw four different
pitchers in that game trying to slow down to Ucla.
They could not do it. Unless you came into this
series perfect six to zero in the season. They leave
the series seven and four. I mean, you scored seven runs,
eight runs total in a five game period. I don't
care if Jaden Evener's on the mound. I don't care
if it's if it's C. C. Silero, Tatum, Clopton, whoever.
You score eight runs in five games, you're not gonna
win very many.
Speaker 4: And it doesn't really matter who you playing.
Speaker 3: I get the three of the five teams you were
playing round the top twenty five, and UCF looks like
a pretty good softball team. If Saturday was any indication,
But you can't dig yourself in that hole offensively. Again,
Daniel was great on the weekend. Tory Edwards was awesome.
Julia Lassiter hit the cover off the ball all weekend long.
You didn't get much from Avery Hodge. You didn't get
much from any of your other role players. I mean,
regardless of who it was, Macy Burgron showed flashes, but
again the consistency was a little off. It was just
it seemed like your top three players stepped up. They
were ready to play. Everyone else wasn't. And I mean again,
eight runs five games. You go one in four in
those five games. Like I think if you would have
asked coach Dona, I less you saw ball wherever. Like
worst case scenario, we go two and three, we beat
the unranked teams. We losed all the ranked teams, but
we battle hard, and we'd like to go three and two.
We'd like to steal one of the three against the
ranked opponents. And your gut, I mean, if you beat
the two unranked teams and you steal one of the
ranked wins, you're sitting.
Speaker 4: At eight and two.
Speaker 3: Now you're six and four, hovering around five hundred and
you've played a lot of games recently, and the rest
isn't gonna get any quicker. I mean, like a laundri
You were talking about the bullpen earlier and yeah, like
the bullpen's bad. But eight runs in five games, I mean, offensively,
nothing was there outside of your big three.
Speaker 7: Which is crazy because when we talked about them coming
into the tournament, like before the tournament, their offense was
extremely productive. And then you get there and you go
against Nebraska, score no runs, and then they kind of
come alive. Versus Oklahoma State you score nine there, and
then with Duke it just do UCF, which is the
most inexcusable one to me for some reason, like u
CF was unranked. Can you lose one to five? That's
the most inexcusable one to me.
Speaker 4: U C LA Okay, they're number six, Yeah, I mean
they're they're a great team.
Speaker 8: Nebraska number eleven.
Speaker 7: Like I said, I think they're gonna end up being
a problem, so okay, sure whatever, But I mean it's
just to only come out of that with one win.
Feels like they're talking about this in the chat. I
kind of feel like this program's taking a bit of
a step.
Speaker 3: Back and Oklahoma State, Like you go, look at their
overall record. Olahoma State's not a great team. So like
you beat you beat Oklahoma State nine to four. You
didn't blow them out. They're not a great softball program
right now. So I mean, yeah, the one win you
got was against by far the weakest team in the field.
Speaker 4: I mean, where do you where do you? Where do
you go from here?
Speaker 3: Because like even if sure like Heavener had some rough outings,
I get it, but I mean she battled early against Nebraska,
and the fact of the matter is Hevener could have
given up one run the whole game. It wouldn't have mattered, right,
because you couldn't do anything offensively, So like, I don't,
I don't even put it on her, Like I get it,
she wouldn't. She wasn't nails like she has been in
the past. But I mean it shouldn't matter. Like she
went the whole game against Dude, gave up five runs. Okay, cool,
but you scored three in that game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and really only the top of your lineup is prettycer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Daniel has been really good, Lassiter has
been great, Tory Edwards, we know what she is. Can
you find me one person that's been consistent outside of
those three, I mean, anybody like that.
Speaker 7: But like even Tory Edwards, her average is two ninety
six right now, right, which is like she we know
she could do better.
Speaker 3: Right like that, that's not what she is. Like it's
a good it's a good average, but it's not. It's
not Tory Edwards. It's just that that was worst case
scenario for LSU softball.
Speaker 4: Okay, but you also.
Speaker 7: Can't really have like eleven errors on the weekend, right.
Speaker 3: Because if you're if your batting's not there, can you
get some sort of support for your pitchers? No, yeah,
you have. You have no support in the field. You
have no run support behind you. I don't know what
you tell these pitchers to do to win these games,
but hopefully they can bounce back really bad weekend Brolshue softball.
Before we take a break, LSU women's basketball played a
big time game in primetime. It was about seven thirty
Saturday night on ABC, and it lived up to the
Billy Now. Unfortunately LSU does lose that ball game.
Speaker 4: South Carolina wins. It's seventy nine, seventy two.
Speaker 3: Eighteen straight losses to the South Carolina game Cocks for
this LSU women's basketball program. When I first heard that
on the broadcast, I thought it was a typo, but no,
I mean they had brought it up multiple times in
that game. Kim Milkee now o wins six against Dawn
Staley since coming to LSU. Ok, it's just the team
and a coach that has your number right now, and
you can't figure out why. But there's some things that
point to it. Like, first off, your big time players
have to step up. And I am not talking about
fla Je Johnson. This could have been one of flaw
J Johnson's best game. She played now, she was two
for six from the free throw line. Hey, Flage may
make you free throw is down the stretch. This is
a little bit of a different game. But she she
was great. I mean nine of eighteen, twenty one points,
a steal, eight rebounds. I mean, Planchet did what she
had to do to win this game. Again, two for
six of free throws. Got to get better. But I
mean Mikayla Williams five for twelve, eleven points. You need
a little bit more there. Jada Reeshard seven points, one
for ten from the floor, Malaysia full Wiley, who played
twenty three minutes, and this is her former team. You thought, okay,
this is a this is the spot where Malaysia full
while he's really gonna go off six points one for
eight from the floor. She was four for four from
the free throw line. She was the only person her
and Jada Rieschard that shot well from the free throw line.
But you just you could not get it done. Tessa
Johnson for South Carolina got really hot. So did Raven Johnson.
I mean Tessa twenty one points, four for five from three,
Raven Johnson nineteen points, three for five from three. I mean,
it was just it was one of those things where
South Carolina hit threes and big opportunities where you didn't.
I mean, you look at what South Carolina show from
three eight for seventeen forty seven percent, LSU two for
twelve seventeen percent and did not hit one in the
second half. It's just hit hit one in the second half.
Laj hit one in the second half. But it's just
you didn't shoot the ball well and at least make
your free throws, and he didn't do that. South Carolina
fifteen of seventeen from the line, eighty eight percent LSU
fourteen of twenty three, sixty one percent from the line.
I mentioned Fla j A Johnson two for six. There
was a it was in the fourth quarter. It's a
clutch situation. She gets fouled, goes to the line. L
sho's up one. At this point, you're like, Okay, she
hits down one, she hits these, you take you take
the lead. At worst, she goes one for one. It's
a tie ball game. She misses them both. You're still
down one. South Carolina goes down, they get a basket,
they get another move. You're down by multiple possessions. I
mean that that was that was the story of the
game for her. Grace Knox over two. Mikaela Williams did
not go to the free throw line, but I mean
Jada Ree Charlott's five of six Malaysia full while he
was four for four, Kate Covell two for two. But
as a team, I mean it it wasn't where it
needs to be.
Speaker 4: That was the difference in it.
Speaker 3: Three point shooting and free throws eighty eight and forty
seven for South Carolina. You sixty one percent from free
throw line, seventeen percent from behind the arc.
Speaker 4: It's a difference in the game.
Speaker 3: Seven point game, and a couple of those points were
were down when you just had to foul them late
in the game. I mean, with with four minutes to
go in this ball game. This was a tie game.
This was anybody's ballgame, and.
Speaker 4: That was it. South Carolina made the shots, made the plays,
made their free throws. You did not.
Speaker 3: That was the result of this game. Look, LSU still
a really good basketball team. They still have everything they
want in front of them. But you just cannot get
over the hump that is South Carolina. Like we were
watching this game, me and my wife after we got
home on Saturday, and you know, we're watching it and
she's locked in, like Victoria. You know, she didn't follow
men's or women's basketball that loo. She's locked in. Her mother,
her mom and dad are calling her. They're locked in
as well. It just seems like everybody was so invested
in in this game and then you'll lose the game.
Speaker 4: But the p MAC was rocking. I mean, Jake brought
it up the other day.
Speaker 3: One hundred and eighteen dollars was the cheapest ticket to
get into the PMAC on the secondary market on Saturday.
When's the last time that happened for a women's basketball game?
Like this game here great for women's basketball, right one,
ABC one, Prime Time, seven thirty, and it lived up
to the billing. It was a heavyweight fight. But you
just you really wish LSU could have came out on top.
Like eighteen straight games South Carolina over LSU seems like
it's impossible. But I mean, that's that's that's where we
sit right now, and that's why South Carolina is one
of the gold standards off women's basketball. Like I was
tucking to Victoria when we're watching this game, and she
was like, man, well, at least elo Shu got that
one national championship. And I kind of laughed and I
was like, yeah, but you don't remember what happened. Caitlin
Clark and iowall upset South Carolina in the final four.
That opened the door for LSU to win it. Like,
if South Carolina takes down Kaitlin Clark and IOWA LSU
in South Carolina meet in the finals, who knows what
happens now. I mean, if you shoot the way you
shot in that game like LSU did, LSU probably beats anybody.
Speaker 4: They play.
Speaker 3: But it's a completely different story with South Carolina. I mean,
down Staley that program. LSU cannot beat these guys for
whatever reason, and look that hats off to them.
Speaker 4: They do what they have to do.
Speaker 3: A thing that concerned me going into the game is
gonna be South Carolina's bigs against LSU. Like you have
Kate Covoal, who's got some size for LSU. Outside of that,
you don't have a ton of bigs like uh Medina Ocott.
She's a big and look what she did twelve points,
seventeen rebounds. I mean it was just she was a
difference maker in that game. You had a couple bigs
on that team, and then your backcourt of Tessa Johnson
and Raven Johnson. When you can get that production out
of the back court and you have a big size
advantage of down low, didn't you like where you and
it kind of showed up. I mean I talked about,
you know, total rebounding. I want to shoot out rebound
South Carolina. But a lot of that was in the
first half down the stretch Ocott I thought was really
big for this team. South Carolina six blocks LSU four.
So LSU held their own for the most part. So
if coming into the game, if you would have told me, hey,
South Carolina played their bigs, o'cott had a really good game.
LSU out rebound South Carolina by nine, I would have
said to me that was the one big weakness coming
into the game was the size differential. LSU won this game.
But it's not the case because they couldn't hit three pointers.
They could make their shots from the free throw line,
and South Carolina did. They made shots in big moments
and that is why Don Stalley squad left the p
MAC victorious seventy nine to seventy two over your LSU
Lady Tigers.
Speaker 4: Right, we'll take a quick time out.
Speaker 3: When we get back, we'll preview LSU versus Kent State.
Speaker 4: Tonight.
Speaker 3: I talked about maybe some guys were excited to see
whether it's on the mound in the field. And then
a new team is joining the Mountain West in football
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Speaker 4: Along for the ride as well.
Speaker 3: Your LSU Tigers obviously take down Milwaukee three games to
nothing over the weekend Friday Saturday Sunday. They do play
tonight at six pm against the Kent State Golden Flashes,
a little bit of step up in competition. Kent State
actually had a pretty good three game series actually in Hammon,
so this is a team that's been in Louisiana for
a while now. They played Friday, Saturday Sunday as well.
They sweep the Southeastern Lions, and I get southeastn't a
little bit lower level, but that's a program that's one
of the better baseball programs in the Southland Conference, at
least traditionally, you know, in the last couple of years
hasn't been what it was. But again, Southeastern normally a
pretty good baseball program, and Kent State took care of
them with ease eight to three on Saturday eleven, or
eight to three on Friday, eleven to two on Valentine's
Day on Saturday, and then a fourteen to seven victory
yesterday against the Lions. So they put up a ton
of runs and I'll shu look again step up in
competition a little bit. When we talked to Patrick Coogan
a little bit earlier today, he believes jad and Nut's
gonna get the start, and then that's probably the case.
We saw Jayden Nut do this a little bit last
year and he didn't throw it all over the weekend,
so that makes sense.
Speaker 4: And I'm excited to see what Jayden Nute can do.
Speaker 3: But we know he's got stuff right like we've seen
it from Jayden Nute from time and time again, what
I want to do right now, I always look at
maybe a few guys that I mean I'm excited to
see tonight that you know, outside of Jaden Newt. Danny
lock and Meyer pitcher from North Dakota State. A year ago,
he's on lefty six thirty to twenty one. He was
first team All Summit League honors last year. He recorded
nine saves. Danny had a two point three seven ERA
and thirty eight innings last year. Now, twenty four of
those thirty eight were relief appearances. So making no mistake
about it, like Danny lock and Meyer is going to
be a relief pitcher on this staff. But we talked
about not giving up free passes earlier and how impressive
Cooper will Cooper Moore was eleven strikeouts, no walks, Danny
lock Andmyer last year fifty strikeouts, just eighteen walks. On
the entire season. He had nine saves that led the
Summit League that ranked twenty third in the nation. Like
Danny Lockemeyer is a guy coming in that Yes he's
stepping up obviously multiple levels of competition, but he was
really really solid last year for the Boys, and I'm
excited to see him. I think we'll see him in
the back into that bullpen here tonight, if in fact
it is Jaden Nude that does get the start. We
saw him a little bit over the weekend, but I
want to see him a little bit more in the field.
Mason Braun, he got to start at DH over the weekend,
played a few spots here and there. Remember Mason Braun
was the number one high school first baseman last year
coming out of high school, and it was the sixty
eighth overall player in the nation. He launched the longest
home run last year in the twenty twenty five major
league draft combine, like the longest out of anybody. He
hit the ball well in the fall. You saw some
things from him over the weekend. You know he can
play a little bit of outfield. He could play first
base as well. That's actually what he's listened out on
the roster. He's outfield slash first base. I want to
see where they put him, Like did they give Jake
Brown a night off after his big weekend? Put him
in right field? Does he go in there at first base?
For Zach York. You can kind of move Mason Braun
around here and there, which is what I like about him. Like,
if you need to move York to DH, you can
Braun could slide in there. He could in there in
the outfield, multiple outfield positions. I think the the elusiveness,
the athleticism of a guy like Mason Brawn, his ability
to play multiple spots will be huge for this baseball team.
And I'm excited to see, like he'll play tonight, no
no what capacity. That's kind of what I'm excited about.
Where he is going to be placed in that field.
I think he'll get a little bit more action there tonight.
And then Ethan Klaus guy we talked about earlier in
the show.
Speaker 4: He's a guy.
Speaker 3: He looks the part getting off the bus. He's six
to two but shortstop in high school, but can move
around the infield. You saw him at second base a
little bit yesterday, showed some power in the fall. Look,
you need depth in the infield. You need to find
some guys. Ethan Klaus could be one of those guys.
He batted four to twenty five or four fifteen and
twenty twenty five last year in high school out in
Las Vegas, five thirty one base percentage, sixteen doubles that
led the entire state of Nevada as far as high
school baseball goes. Ethan Klaus is a guy that could
really step up and be a really quality depth piece
for you. I don't think he's going to win the
job at second base. I don't think it's out of
the question. But Seth Dardar looked really good in the
opening weekend. You should love Braden Simpson there as well.
But Ethan Klaus could be a guy. Look, you need
to pinch hit or he needs somebody to go play
the field in case of an injury. Ethan Klaus, if
he steps up and keeps playing well. He could be
right there in that conversation, and then also Omar Serna. Look,
I thought Aaron Beattie was was really good over the weekend,
both offensively and defensively. But me and Landra talked about
Omar Serna a little bit earlier about just how he looks.
I mean, he's six two two twenty six as a freshman,
and he hit the ball well at times in the
in those false scrimmages.
Speaker 4: We saw him a little bit this weekend. He did
get a start.
Speaker 3: I would like to see Omar Serna, whether he starts
or not, gets him extended outing in this game as well,
see what he can do, Elandra before we go to break.
Speaker 4: Look, I mean we've talked. We've talked, siRNA.
Speaker 3: I mean we know that we know about Jaden new Like,
is there somebody tonight though, like maybe maybe a little
bit under the our person You're like, hey, I want
to see what they can do tonight.
Speaker 7: I was not ready for this question. There's not really anybody.
I feel like we saw so much of them this weekend,
so I don't really think that there's anybody that I'm like,
oh yeah, I'm looking out for them, but I am
interested to see who's going to start tonight.
Speaker 8: I thought it was going to be Cooper Williams. I
thought he was gonna.
Speaker 4: Paris Sturday.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so probably not gonna be him, But I mean,
I don't know. That's a good question.
Speaker 4: Though, j Jaden, dude, I guess would be your.
Speaker 7: outBut I would like to see Jayden Nudde like off
of last season he did really well.
Speaker 4: We'll see what happen.
Speaker 8: Maybe he's a Maverick Rizzi.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, because Maverick.
Speaker 3: But he threw like an inning, yes, this is begining,
like an inning and a third I think it was.
Speaker 8: I don't remember if it was Saturday. I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think it was just one inning.
Speaker 3: It was just one inning, Okay, Yeah, and I mean
he looked good. But yeah, Maverick Rizzy is a good one.
Like it'd be a little bit more of an extended outing,
like we haven't we haven't really got to see Maverick
extend a ton yeah, even even last year.
Speaker 4: So that's a good call as well.
Speaker 3: That's why I brought up Mason Brawn, Like, yeah, we
saw Mason bron I want to see him a little
bit in the outfield little bit at first base, so
we're kind of versatility he's working with. But excited tonight again.
They played three games over the weekend they have. This
will be their fourth technically opening weekend. I know it's
Monday night, but they'll wrap up the opening weekend here
tonight with Kent State as the Golden Flashes come in
three and oho Kent State again. They put up a
lot of runs against Southeastern. It was eight on Friday night,
eleven on Saturday, and then fourteen to seven victory over
the Lions yesterday. So Kent State's come out swinging here
in twenty twenty six. We'll see what LS you can
do to counter that attack. Here tonight, we'll take a
time out. We'll close this thing out like we do
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Speaker 3: In final segment are on a Monday edition of Off
the Bench. If you hit a lot here today on
this Monday LSU Baseball, over the weekend LSU Women's basketball softball,
we had a ton going on. We'll close out the
show today like we do every day, with a little.
Speaker 4: Ask the Bench.
Speaker 3: This first one's for a launcher, because I saw you'll
talking about it in the chat a little bit earlier.
Speaker 4: Ask the bench, have you seen punch the monkey? What
is punch the monkey?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 7: I feel so bad for punch though. This is like
one of the most emotional things I've.
Speaker 4: Ever right, like, say, I haven't heard of it.
Speaker 7: So it's a little tiny monkey and he was abandoned
by his mother at birth and and so the zoo
keepers raised him, and whenever he was abandoned by his mother,
they gave him the stuffed animal.
Speaker 8: He thinks the stuffed animals his mom.
Speaker 4: Okay, they had that's sadder.
Speaker 8: Stuffed animals his mom. And then he tried at the zoo.
Speaker 7: He tries to like hang out with all the other monkeys,
and none of them want to hang out with him.
And then he went to go try to hug one
of the bigger, like older monkeys, and it pushed him
away and it just went to go crawl with its
stuffed animal, and it was just laying down with his
little stuff buggy.
Speaker 4: That's that's sadder than I.
Speaker 7: Thought it was going to be, but also so sad
at the same time.
Speaker 3: Maybe they don't want to hang out with him because
he's all caring a stuffed animals.
Speaker 8: Knows, probably because they don't love him.
Speaker 3: Probably because they don't love him. Asked the bench. Why
does OTB for punch? Yeah, Justice for punch is a
great name for a monkey, by the way, Ask the bench.
Why does OTB hate President's Day and America? I just
googled it President's Days today, Guys, I don't care.
Speaker 8: We don't get days off here.
Speaker 4: I don't care. What is President's Day?
Speaker 8: Is to celebrate a made up holiday?
Speaker 3: Also, like, what is the purpose of President's Day? It's
like to acknowledge presidents.
Speaker 7: I'm aware we have a president?
Speaker 2: Like what are we? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Like what are we? What are we doing here?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 3: Like, Hey, this is the day to celebrate the president?
I know they exist? Are we Are we just celebrating
one day?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I kind of think.
Speaker 3: That should just be fourth of July. We just conclude
all that in one. There's there's too many things.
Speaker 4: Like Arbor Day. What the hell is that? I like,
we're not We're not doing that. No days off over here, right,
no days off here? Ask the bench.
Speaker 3: Do you find yourself tuning into curling in the Olympics
like me? And why am I fascinated by it? So yes,
I uh, I mean Victoria's gotten more into it than
I have. But yeah, it's it's one of those things
where you know, when the Olympics started, like a curling boring,
anybody can do that. I am cheering them on while
they are sweeping that eye. So I'm like, make a curve,
make a curve, and it's yeah, we are locked in
in my house every time it comes on, Like I
have no idea what any Olympic schedule is.
Speaker 4: I could look it up and I just don't want to.
Speaker 3: But we have it on in the background, that little
whip around coverage on Peacock since it's by NBC, and
uh yeah when curling comes.
Speaker 4: On, it's a big deal in our house. All right.
That's going to do it.
Speaker 3: For a Monday edition of Off the Bench, we covered
a ton a lot of LSU baseball talk. We got
some softball in there, we got some women's basketball. Patrick Coogan,
former LSU baseball pitcher, joined us, got his thoughts on it.
LSU taking on Kent State tonight six pm and Alec
Box Stadium.
Speaker 4: We'll recap that tomorrow.
Speaker 3: We got a whole lot more going on tune in,
same time, same place tomorrow.
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