Yes..

Taylor's team is still in the 2nd round.
Anna's team, like mine, have a bye in the first and have to play by Tuesday. We open tomorrow...

As of now I would think that Jordan Perkins losing to 3rd, and Tidwell looks poise defensively to take her spot in the and feel she just has to catch up on her hitting of college pitchers

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Congrats to Anna Jones and her HS team for winning the state title this week.

Briggs and Pleasants teams have been knocked out the plays off.

Calland is still in the play offs with Katy and are playing again this week against a good Deer Park team.

Pleasants will be focusing on Team USA this summer and the rest will be playing their last summer of travel ball before coming to LSU in August.




As far as transfers, things are about to pick up. Krupit from Baylor is already in the portal. Expect a lot more announcements the next two weeks. That will be something to keep an eye on. I imagine if there is a big player in the portal, LSU will try to go after them.

Charla Echols canceled all future visits and committed to Florida

This post is not counting any transfers in or out. I expect some changes just because that is how college sport should are.

The names you can write in to the lineup right now is Andrews, Doyle, Stewart and Sunseri. I can see Doyle moving over to 3rd. Gutierrez and Clark will battle for 1st. From Left to Right probably Stewart, Andrews, Briggs. Calland and Cummins will battle a Catcher. Tidwell and Pleasants in the middle infield.

Potential Lineup:
Andrews CF
Stewart LF
Sunseri DH/P
Doyle 3B
Pleasants 2B
Clark 1B
Briggs RF
Calland/Cummins C
Tidwell SS
Other potential starters: Antoine, Schulte, Gutierrez, Perkins

This is my fun lineup, one I think might work for next year. It will have debatable spots. But when Sunseri is pitching I would like to see this.

Briggs RF
Stewart LF
Sunseri P
Doyle 3B
Pleasants 2B
Clark DH
Gutierrez 1B
Tidwell SS
Andrews CF
Calland/Cummins C Flex

Yes, I know. “Why would you move Andrews from the lead off spot?” I love Aaliyah Andrews, but unless she develops a stronger bat, she is limited. Still a very good hitter, but a limited one. I really liked our offense the one year Sandra Simmons lead off. She had the ability to slap, hit for average, and hit for power and she lead off very well. I think Briggs or Gutierrez can be able to be a SENIOR YEAR Sandra Simmons type hitter. With Andrews in the 9 spot she doesn’t really have to worry about knocking runners in and can be able to turn the lineup over. She can run like crazy in the 9 hole and steal even more bases. I doubt Torina would ever consider that and y’all will probably hate the idea, but kinda makes sense. Tidwell is an interesting player. She seems to have a very good defensive arm and she looks like she can be more powerful than Serrett. But can she hit for average? Doyle needs to be better next year and Clark needs to be the player we know she can be. A lot of question marks going into next year. Season ended yesterday and I’m already ready for it to start again

But all in all, we have no clue what’s gonna happen. Sometimes I look back at our old discussions and just laugh at how off we were. Aaliyah Andrews wasn’t even thought of a starter, look at her now. We thought that thymes would be a day one starter. And how we would have a star duo in the circle in Selman and Corbello lol. You never know what will happen lol we just gotta let the girls play and everything will work it’s self out.

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But all in all, we have no clue what’s gonna happen. Sometimes I look back at our old discussions and just laugh at how off we were. Aaliyah Andrews wasn’t even thought of a starter, look at her now. We thought that thymes would be a day one starter. And how we would have a star duo in the circle in Selman and Corbello lol. You never know what will happen lol we just gotta let the girls play and everything will work it’s self out.

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Add in Savannah Stewart, who barely sniffed any type of action in OOC play, then ends up being arguably LSU's best hitter to end the season.

I expected her to play a lot and do well as a freshmen but hitting over .360 as a true frosh is extremely impressive. She hit against LSU's toughest opponents to end the year. Very promising for the future.

Without the addition of any transfers

Andrews-CF
Stewart-LF
Sunseri-DH
Doyle- 3B
Clark/Gutierrez-1B
Pleasants- 2B
Briggs-RF
Tidwell-SS
Cummins/Calland-C


Just my personal opinion but I feel extremely confident Briggs will be an upgrade in RF over Antoine and someone who can hit over .300 year one. Of all the incoming freshmen she is probably the most tested given the major pool of D1 talent she faced routinely every week in her area of California, and with significant success. I think Antoine will get the nod at first but I see Briggs eventually running away with the spot much like Stewart did this season. Briggs was a unanimous top 15 recruit for a reason. I think everyone will love watching her next year, she is a fun kid to watch.

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If Andrews does not adjust her offense I would not start her..

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Andrews is easily one the best defensive players in the nation. Andrews is easily one of the fastest players in the nation. Andrews still had on of the best batting averages, hers did not fall nearly as much as a few of the other hitters did at the end of the season.

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If Andrews does not adjust her offense I would not start her. At the end of the season everyone even the TD faithful knew what was going to happen.

I had expected some adjustment...surprised nothing happened.

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There is no question Andrews needs to expand her game offensively because top teams can take away what she does well but benching her is dumb. She has hit well above .300 all 3 years and is essentially an automatic double if she gets on base. She is great defensively as well. LSU is a better team when she is out there and running the base path. She has been the difference for LSU in many of their wins the last couple years.

LSU had some bigger issues to end the year than just Andrews at the plate.

Get a star pitcher... Just 1 and everyone else we have now would work well around (her).