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USA Today
4 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Ranking LSU's top five super regional moments in Alex Box Stadium history
Ranking LSU's top five super regional moments in Alex Box Stadium history Postseason baseball at Alex Box Stadium is special. College baseball doesn't garner the same attention as college football and college basketball, but Baton Rouge is different. It has no equal. Alex Box Stadium holds 10,326, but you would think it's a lot more if you've ever watched a super regional in Baton Rouge. The place comes alive, and it's not all that different from Tiger Stadium across the street, despite a capacity that's just 10% of what the football stands hold. LSU has hosted 12 Super Regionals at The Box. The Tigers are 9-3 in those series and 19-9 in super regional games at home. Now, it's West Virginia's turn to witness the power of the postseason at The Box. The Mountaineers roll in for the Baton Rouge Regional set to begin on Saturday. LSU didn't make a super regional in 2024 after falling in the Chapel Hill Regional. The last time LSU was in this spot was 2023, when the eventual national champs swept Kentucky in two games. Super regional baseball at Alex Box will be a welcome site for LSU fans. Here are the top five super regional moments in Alex Box history. June 6, 2003: Back-to-back homers vs. Baylor force Game 3 On the brink of elimination, LSU used back-to-back home runs to lead off the eighth inning and force a game three. Clay Harris hit the first homer against pitcher Abe Woody to right-center. After the Bears made a change on the mound, Ivan Naccarata hit a solo blast to put the Tigers up 6-5. that score set up a rubber match. LSU took the series with a 20-run showing the next day. June 6, 2015: Walk-off homer vs UL-Lafayette In the latest installment of an in-state rivalry, LSU and UL-Lafayette met in Baton Rouge for a super regional match. The two sides came down to the wire in the series opener, winning 4-3 on a walk-off home run from designated hitter Chris Sciambra. The Tigers advanced to Omaha with a win the following day. The rare matchup of in-state teams well into the postseason provided an extra sense of excitement inside Alex Box Stadium. June 8, 2008: Ninth inning rally keeps LSU alive vs. UC Irvine After dropping Game 1, LSU was facing elimination in Game 2 of the super regional vs. UC Irvine. LSU trailed 7-4 entering the top of the ninth. The Tigers' season was on the brink. With the bases loaded, Jared Mitchell drew a walk to make it 7-5. Then Nicholas Pontiff drove in another run on a fielder's choice. Blake Dean singled to right field to score Mitchell, and suddenly it was tied. Catcher Sean Ochinko kept the rally going with a single to left, driving in the go-ahead run. The next day, LSU punched its ticket to Omaha. June 10, 2017: Big inning late leads LSU past Mississippi State In the opening game of the super regional against Mississippi State, LSU found itself in a hole. Trailing 3-0 heading into the bottom of the eighth inning, the Tigers scored four unanswered runs in their half of the frame to cement a 4-3 win. Greg Deichmann, Zach Watson and Michael Papierski recorded the RBIs. LSU pitcher Alex Lange put together a standout game, finishing with 10 strikeouts through 7.2 innings. The contest was one for the ages in eyes of then-LSU head coach Paul Mainieri. "Well, that's a game that we'll never forget in these parts," Mainieri said. "I'll be talking about this game 10 years from now." June 7, 2013: Aaron Nola dominates In what would be a two-game series win against Oklahoma, starting pitcher Aaron Nola hurled a gem. The right-handed pitcher threw a complete game shutout at home in game one, his fifth of the season. Nola allowed just two hits and didn't surrender a walk while adding six strikeouts. LSU needed the effort in its quest for a College World Series berth as it won 2-0 over the Sooners.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Regulations for Louisiana solar farms fizzle, leaving locals in the dark
Rows of solar modules generate electricity at UL-Lafayette's Photovoltaic Applied Research and Testing (PART) Lab — Aug. 9, 2021. (Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator) Although the solar industry has been operating in Louisiana for years, state lawmakers took their first stab at making uniform rules and regulations, only to kill the effort. Some parishes have had to make their own rules for the installation and construction of household solar panels and larger arrays or 'farms.' Local officials have asked the state to create a guidebook to guide their decisions. However, House Bill 615, by Rep. Brett Geymann, R-Lake Charles, failed to pass the balancing act of granting local regulatory power and giving the solar industry what it says they need to operate. It failed in a 47-52 House floor vote. Geymann's testimony in committee and on the House floor focused on projects across the state that did not have a local ordinance in place and have become what he called eyesores. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE Driving over the Mississippi River Bridge from Baton Rouge into Port Allen, the remnants of an old solar farm – one of the first built in the state – are still visible. Rep. Jeremy LaCombe, R-Livonia, said in a House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment hearing his constituents who live nearby still have to deal with the unsightly defunct farm. Other projects in Franklinton, Springfield, and Monroe were scrutinized in the hearing as poorly maintained and supposedly bringing down surrounding property values. Committee member Rep. Shane Mack, R-Livingston, recalled his time on the Livingston Parish Council, where members struggled to find a solution for a proposed solar farm. Constituents were largely concerned with having to look at the solar panels from their residential properties. 'I wish we could go back in time, and this legislation [would have been] in place. Because if it had been, I think a lot of the complaints I received then and that I still receive today probably could have been avoided,' Mack said. 'We're not here today because everything is going great in the solar industry, because it's not,' Geymann said. His bill would have set requirements for the distance between any solar project and the closest residential property, keeping them a mile apart in its initial version. Industry interests said the standard would be impossible to meet. Geymann said he plans to bring a different version of his bill next year. He voiced frustrations around industry leaders allegedly not assisting him in giving direct solutions or amendments. 'We have worked on this for an entire year … We have sought input from people all over, and right now we believe we are in a good spot [with the bill],' Geymann said before the floor vote. Norby Chabert, a lobbyist for the Southern Renewable Energy Association, said group members met with Geymann before the committee hearing on his bill, outlining parts that would make it extremely difficult on solar projects in Louisiana. He said he would work with Geymann to help craft next year's proposal. Some lawmakers struggled with the bill because it would have overtaken some local ordinances and replaced them with the new state rules. It did allow for local governments to work with solar project developers to ask the state for permission to soften some state rules, but they could not fully opt out of them. 'I just want to make sure this doesn't supersede what is already in place and somehow lets these facilities off the hook to drop their financial assurance,' LaCombe said. Solar projects would have had to get clearance from the Department of Energy and Natural Resources, as they already do for their decommissioning plans. Geymann had made changes to his bill in response to industry criticisms and modeled it after ordinances in Tangipahoa Parish, which are considered the most restrictive in the state. Still, his measure drew opposition from the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, Greater New Orleans Inc., the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association and the Baton Rouge Area Chamber. State Rep. Matthew Willard, D-New Orleans, said that if Geyman's bill had passed, it would have made Louisiana one of the most restrictive states for solar projects. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
