re: Louisiana baseball, softball teams cooling rivalry

Cliff notes for Shoot em...

ULL beat LSU in the Regional. LSU comes out of the loser's bracket, had to beat them twice.

LSU drums ULL in Game 1.

In Game 2, Matt Heath hits a home run adding to another big LSU lead. As Heath rounded third base, he stared into the ULL dugout, in his words, "to let them know we were for real". All the ULL crybabies in the dugout, led by their coaching staff, come out past the top step of the dugout ready to fight. On Heath's next at bat he gets drilled in the back with the first pitch of his at bat. The ULL pitcher and Tony Robichaux gets tossed.

A few batters later, Aaron Hill was batting and the bat slips out of his hands on a swing at a pitch. The bat flies into the Cajun dugout where acting head coach Wade Simoneux cries and claims it was on purpose. The umpires, not wanting to seem impartial, ejected Hill.

After the 2 game drumming LSU gave ULL, Wally Pontiff famously explained why the Tigers won the Regional. "We were playing to make it to Omaha, and they were playing to beat LSU."

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Anybody have any video from that game? Didn't really start following LSU baseball until 05 I had no idea about this shite

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Oh I wish there was video of that regional. I think Jumbo televised the games. I'm sure someone somewhere has it on tape.