LSU skid continues in 7-2 loss to UL-Lafayette
Published 11:38 pm Wednesday, March 4, 2026
By Scooter Hobbs
Getting away from home wasn’t much help for the funk the LSU baseball team is mired in these days.
After a strong start to the season, the defending national champions don’t look much like the part. They took their struggles on the road to Louisiana-Lafayette Wednesday and that wasn’t the answer — no matter how much it delighted the home crowd — as the Tigers dropped their second straight game, this time 7-2 to a Ragin Cajun squad that totally outplayed them.
“We’ve got to play better,” LSU coach Jay Johnson said. “This was an awesome atmosphere. This is about the Cajuns playing great baseball tonight. We didn’t.”
Let him count the ways. There was plenty of blame to go around.
In losing the second straight game the Tigers (11-2) made three errors, botched at least three other plays that could have been ruled errors, were 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position, struck out 11 times with 0nl eight hits and used eight pitchers who combined to walk eight and hit two.
“We’ve hit a little bit of a speed bump,” Johnson said, “and I’ll use that to make this team better. I’m glad we’re learning some things that we need and will do better.
“It’s tough to have lessons in losses, but sometimes it grabs the team’s attention. We’re ready to get into more of a normal routine now and I do think we will gain from tonight.”
LSU’s Gavin Guidry (3-1), who hadn’t given up a run in four previous appearances, started and took the loss as the Cajuns jumped on the Tigers for three runs in the first inning and never really looked back.
Guidry didn’t help himself with a throwing error in that opening inning, and he didn’t get much help from his defense which made another error. Another swinging bunt that should have been an out extended the tone-setting inning.
Guidry recovered from the rough start but was pulled after 2 1/3 innings, having given up the three runs on two hits with one walk and two strikeouts.
LSU, seemingly out of nowhere, got back in it when Trent Carraway hit a 2-out, 2-run homer in the top of the fifth to cut the lead to 3-2.
It didn’t last long.
Former Barbe star Donovan LaSalle opened the bottom of the fifth with a double and, after another LSU error led to three Cajuns’ runs, the Tigers never seriously threatened again.
LSU, ranked No. 2 in the poll (for now), has suddenly lost three of its last six games to fall to 11-3.
The Cajuns (10-3) may have made a strong case to get into the rankings.
“That’s clearly a top 25 team,” Johnson said.
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