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LSU living up to expectations … so far

By Heather Dinich

Saturday, June 6, 2009

BATON ROUGE, La. -- When classes began in August and the LSU baseball team met for the first time, coach Paul Mainieri told his players they were good enough to get to the College World Series. On Saturday, after beating Rice 5-3 in the Baton Rouge Super Regional to advance to Omaha, LSU looked good enough to win it all. Behind eight innings of gritty pitching by Louis Coleman, a strong defensive effort and a few clutch hits, LSU left no doubt that it was the better team in the best-of-three ...

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