That's the most dominating pitching performance I've seen against LSU since a Kentucky pitcher had a career-best 14 strikeouts (in 6 innings) against our 2009 National Championship team, including 11 strikeouts in his first four innings (Hanover hit a home run off him, though). Gotta tip your hat to the NSU pitcher. He throws a 93 mph fastball, and in summer semipro ball he had a team-record 14 strikeouts in 7 innings. But he's inconsistent. LSU faced the same guy last year in Shreveport when he was a freshman for NSU, and we got 4 hits (Hanover got one of them) and 4 runs in two innings with him on the mound, and he only struck out 1 of the 13 LSU batters he faced.
fwiw: the consensus #3 team, defending National Champs South Carolina just lost to a 12-20 team today
Errors too. Hanover and Nola constantly make the first baseman work too hard over there digging out their sloppy throws. Catcher needs shoring up too. I don't know what his ratio is for stolen bases, but I'd guess there are more safe at second than out.
It is a little different when a team coming off an SEC series sweep has a let-down game. LSU desperately needs momentum, confidence, or something.
