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6 NCAA TITLES (1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009) • 18 CWS APPEARANCES • 17 SEC CHAMPIONSHIPS 2019 LSU BASEBALL NCAA Baton Rouge Super Regional - June 8-10 Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field Schedule/Results (40-24, 17-13 SEC) Florida State Seminoles (39-21) vs. LSU Tigers (40-24) February 15 (Fri.) LOUISIANA-MONROE W, 12-7 SECN+ RANKINGS 16 (Sat.) ARMY W, 6-5 SECN+ LSU - No. 13 NCAA Tournament National Seed; ranked No. 11 this week by Collegiate Basebal 17 (Sun.) AIR FORCE W, 17-5 SECN+ FSU - ranked No. 12 this week by Collegiate Baseball 19 (Tue.) SOUTHEASTERN LA. W, 6-5 SECN+ 22 (Fri.) BRYANT W, 13-6 SECN+ LSU IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT 23 (Sat.) BRYANT W, 17-8 SECN+ • LSU is in the NCAA Tournament for the eighth straight year and for the 32nd time overall ... the Tigers 24 (Sun.) BRYANT W, 4-3 SECN+ 27 (Wed.) SOUTHERN W, 17-4 SECN+ were an NCAA Tournament Top 8 National Seed for an NCAA-record six straight seasons (2012-17) ... LSU has six national championships (1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2009), the second-most in NCAA March history ... LSU has the second-highest all-time NCAA Tournament winning percentage (.714, 157-63) ... 1 (Fri.) at Texas L, 1-8 LHN LSU is appearing in its 14th Super Regional and in its 11th Super Regional at home - the Tigers 2 (Sat.) at Texas L, 4-8 LHN 3 (Sun.) at Texas L, 6-7 LHN are 18-12 (.600) all-time in Super Regionals (17-6 at home, 1-6 on the road) ... LSU has a 99-24 6 (Wed.) HOLY CROSS W, 9-2 SECN+ (.805) all-time record in NCAA Regional games, including an 86-17 (.835) mark at home regionals and 8 (Fri.) CALIFORNIA W, 4-3 SECN+ an 13-7 (.650) record in regional games on the road ... LSU is a combined 103-23 (.817) in NCAA 9 (Sat.) CALIFORNIA (DH) L, 2-5 (7) SECN+ Tournament games at home (regional & super regional) ... the Tigers have won eight of their 10 9 (Sat.) CALIFORNIA (DH) W, 5-4 (7) SECN+ 12 (Tue.) at Northwestern State L, 1-3 ESPN+ home Super Regionals and 22 of their 26 home Regionals. 13 (Wed.) TEXAS SOUTHERN W, 16-5 SECN+ 16 (Sat.) KENTUCKY (DH) W, 2-1(12) SECN+ LSU SERIES RECORD VS. FLORIDA STATE 16 (Sat.) KENTUCKY (DH) W, 16-4 SECN+ • LSU and Florida State have met 18 times since 1955, with each team claiming nine wins ... this 17 (Sun.) KENTUCKY W, 7-2 SECN+ weekend’s Super Regional marks the seventh meeting between the schools in the NCAA Tournament, 20 (Wed.) NICHOLLS W, 5-4(10) SECN+ with each team capturing three victories in the prior six games ... Florida State defeated LSU, 4-2, in 22 (Fri.) at Georgia W, 1-0 SECN+ the 1975 Starkville (Miss.) Regional; LSU posted a 6-2 win over FSU in the 1987 CWS; FSU defeated 23 (Sat.) at Georgia L, 0-2 SECN 24 (Sun.) at Georgia L, 7-9 SECN LSU, 6-3, in the 1994 CWS; the Tigers posted a 6-3 win over the Seminoles in the 2000 CWS, and LSU 26 (Tue.) McNEESE STATE L, 0-2 SECN+ recorded two wins over FSU (5-4, 7-4) in the 2017 CWS ... this weekend’s Super Regional marks 28 (Thu.) at Mississippi State L, 5-6 ESPNU FSU’s first trip to Louisiana to play LSU since March 3, 1991, when the Seminoles posted an 8-0 29 (Fri.) at Mississippi State W, 10-5 SECN win over the Tigers at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans ... this weekend marks FSU’s first 30 (Sat.) at Mississippi State W, 11-2 SECN+ trip to Baton Rouge since 1983, when the Seminoles posted two wins over the Tigers (8-2, 6-3) to conclude LSU’s regular season ... the teams also met in Baton Rouge in 1966 (LSU wins 3-2 and 1-0) April ... the first-ever meeting in the series occurred in 1955 at Tallahassee (a 5-3 FSU win). 2 (Tue.) GRAMBLING W, 9-0 SECN+ 3 (Wed.) SOUTH ALABAMA W, 2-0 SECN+ LSU COACH PAUL MAINIERI 5 (Fri.) TEXAS A&M W, 2-1 SECN+ 6 (Sat.) TEXAS A&M (DH) L, 4-6 ESPN2 • LSU coach Paul Mainieri is in his 37th season as a college coach with six seasons at St. Thomas 6 (Sat.) TEXAS A&M (DH) W, 9-3 SECN University (1983-88), six seasons at Air Force (1989-94), 12 seasons at Notre Dame (1995-2006) and 9 (Tue.) at Southern L, 2-7 ESPN+ he is in his 13th season at LSU (2007-present) … his overall record is 1,455-745-7 and he is 591- 12 (Fri.) at Missouri W,12-11(10)SECN+ 253-3 at LSU ... he was inducted in January 2014 into the American Baseball Coaches Association 13 (Sat.) at Missouri L, 1-4 SECN+ Hall of Fame, and he served last summer as the head coach of the USA Collegiate National Team ... 14 (Sun.) at Missouri L, 5-11 SECN Mainieri is No. 3 on the NCAA Division I active coaches win list, and he is one of only 10 coaches in 16 (Tue.) Louisiana-Lafayette * L, 5-6 CST NCAA Division I history to win at least 1,400 games ... he earned National Coach of the Year recognition 18 (Thu.) FLORIDA L, 9-16 SECN at LSU in 2008, 2009 and 2015 ... Mainieri directed LSU to the 2009 College World Series title, and he 19 (Fri.) FLORIDA W, 13-1 SECN also has led the Tigers to CWS appearances in 2008, 2013, 2015 and 2017 ... he has directed LSU to 20 (Sat.) FLORIDA W, 11-2 ESPN2 23 (Tue.) LAMAR W, 5-3 SECN+ nine NCAA Tournament National Seeds in the past 12 seasons, including eight Top 8 seeds in that span 26 (Fri.) at Alabama L, 1-6 SECN+ ... Mainieri has guided the Tigers to eight NCAA Regional titles, five Super Regional championships, six 27 (Sat.) at Alabama W, 5-2 SECN+ SEC Tournament titles, six SEC Western Division titles and four SEC regular-season championships 28 (Sun.) at Alabama W, 5-4 SECN+ ... Mainieri’s NCAA Tournament record at LSU is 51-22 (.699) - 29-7 in regionals, 11-5 in super regionals, 11-10 in the CWS ... LSU is playing host to a super regional for the eighth time during May Mainieri’s 13-year tenure; the Tigers have won five of their prior seven home super regionals 3 (Fri.) OLE MISS W, 8-3 SECN+ under Mainieri ... Mainieri is 5-1 all-time vs. FSU coach Mike Martin, including a 2-1 series victory 4 (Sat.) OLE MISS L, 1-5 SECN+ in the 2002 Super Regional at Tallahassee, when Mainieri was the coach at Notre Dame. 5 (Sun.) OLE MISS L, 15-19 ESPN2 7 (Tue.) LOUISIANA TECH L, 1-12 SECN+ 9 (Thu.) at Arkansas L, 4-14 ESPNU ABOUT THE TIGERS 10 (Fri.) at Arkansas L, 6-11 SECN+ • LSU is the No. 13 National Seed in the NCAA Tournament ... the Tigers won the NCAA Baton Rouge 11 (Sat.) at Arkansas W, 3-2 ESPN2 Regional with a win over Stony Brook and two wins over Southern Miss ... LSU finished the regular season 14 (Tue.) NEW ORLEANS W, 7-5 SECN+ 17-13 in the Southeastern Conference and the Tigers were the No. 5 seed in the SEC Tournament … the 16 (Thu.) AUBURN W, 7-1 SECN+ Tigers advanced to the SEC Tournament semifinal round for the seventh straight year ... LSU has won 17 (Fri.) AUBURN W, 5-1 SECN+ 10 of its last 13 games. 18 (Sat.) AUBURN L, 4-5 (11) SECN+ • LSU scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning May 23 on a wild pitch and an error, giving the 21 (Tue.) South Carolina # W, 8-6 SECN Tigers a 4-3 walk-off win over Auburn in the third round of the SEC Tournament... the game marked LSU’s 22 (Wed.) Mississippi State # L, 5-6 (17) SECN fifth walk-off win this year, setting a school record for walk-off victories in a single season ... the win 23 (Thu.) Auburn # W, 4-3 SECN 24 (Fri.) Mississippi State # W, 12-2 (7) SECN came after LSU had suffered a heartbreaking 17-inning loss to Mississippi State in a contest that ended 25 (Sat.) Vanderbilt # L, 4-13 ESPN2 at 3:03 a.m. that same morning ... the LSU-Miss. State game was the longest in LSU history in both 31 (Fri.) Stony Brook % W, 17-3 ESPNU innings played (17) and time elapsed (6 hours, 43 minutes). • Senior rightfielder Antoine Duplantis is LSU’s career leader in hits (354), games played (267), triples June (16) and at-bats (1,098) ... he is second all-time in NCAA Division I at-bats -- the NCAA Division I record 1 (Sat.) Southern Miss % W, 8-4 ESPN3 for career at-bats is 1,114 by John Fishel of Cal State Fullerton (1982-85) . 2 (Sun.) Southern Miss % W, 6-4 ESPN3 • LSU catcher Saul Garza has raised his batting average from .188 on April 23 to .309 entering the NCAA Super Regional ... Garza, the Co-Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional, is batting June 7-10 NCAA Super Regional Sites TBA batting .417 (30-for-72) since April 23 (20 games) with seven doubles, four homers, 15 RBI and 13 runs ..