College baseball: Homers lift LSU over Northwestern State

BATON ROUGE – The Northwestern State baseball team – young and old – had its moments Tuesday night at Alex Box Stadium. The No. 2-ranked LSU Tigers had a few more. The Tigers rode the momentum of three straight second-inning home runs to a 14-4 win against the visiting Demons, handing Northwestern State just its second mid-week loss of the year. “That’s a really good team, and it’s what you get when you play a really good team,” seventh-year head coach Bobby Barbier said. “We made some mistakes. When you...