Baton Rouge Regional Day 1 Report: LSU Knocks off Southern with 7 Run 7th

For 6 plus innings, Southern left hander Chase Richard held the No. 3 national seed LSU Tigers in check.  But, after LSU tied the game in the 7th, Southern coach Roger Cador decided to pull Richard in favor of right hander Kyle Wahl. 

The move did not pay off as LSU would score six more times in the 7th to take an 8-2 lead.  LSU would plate two more in the 8th and would go on to win game 1 of the Baton Rouge regional 10-2.

Austin Ross got the start for LSU and promptly gave up a lead off single and a two run homerun to Victor Franklin.  Ross would settle down and strke out the side in the 1st and would not allow another run until he was pulled for Paul Bertuccini in the 7th.

Richard kept LSU hitters off balance with a nice mixture of off spead breaking  balls and scattered 7 hits through 6 1/3 innings.  He would strike out none, but only walk one.