 Photo By: LSUsports.net Da Boot Sports 3/10/2026 By: Terrill J. Weil BATON ROUGE, LA - LSU defeated Creighton 8-4 on Tuesday night at Alex Box Stadium/Skip Bertman Field, hoping to have finally broken out of a long, terrible slump. Reagan Ricken got the nod to start on the bump for the Tigers and struggled, going only one inning, giving up. runs on two hits. He walked one and struck out one. Ricken was replaced by Dax Dathe very early in the second inning. Jay Johnson used six different pitchers to help earn the victory. Deven Sheerin (1-0) got the win for the Tigers and Santiago Garcia got the save. Jake Brown got things going in the bottom of the first with a one out double to left field. Seth Dardar was issued a base on balls. Steven Milam then singled to right center to score Brown. We headed to the second with LSU up, 1-0. A LSU error led to a run for Creighton in the top of the second. Ricken was replaced by Dax Dathe after allowing the Bluejays runners on the corners with no outs. Dathe walked the first hitter he faced and was quickly replaced by Ethan Plog, who inherited the bases loaded with no outs. A sacrifice fly to right field, plated another run. The Bluejays now had runners on the corners with one out. But the Tigers were able to register the final two outs to end the Creighton threat. 2-1 Bluejays as we headed to the bottom of the frame. To start bottom of the second, Trent Caraway was hit by a pitch with one out. Derek Curiel singled to right center, advancing Caraway to third. Curiel was able to move up to second on a bad throw. Dardar stepped to the plate with runners on second and third with two outs after Brown struck out. Dardar went down on strikes, stranding the runners on base. A huge missed opportunity by the Tigers. The Tigers nightmarish slump continued as LSU pitching sputtered just enough to allow Creighton to plate two more runs in the third. 4-1, Bluejays as we moved to the bottom of the third inning. Tanner Reaves led off the fourth with a single to center field. Reaves advanced to second on a passed ball. Caraway grounded out to move Reaves to third base. Curiel then grounded out to the pitcher. Tigers were in desperate need of a timely hit with a runner on third with two outs. Jake Brown was able to reach safely on a throwing error. Reaves scored on the play. The fourth came to an end with LSU now trailing, 4-2. Milam led off the fifth being hit by a pitch. Yorke then singled to center field. Edward Yamin IV was hit by a pitch to load the bases with no outs. Omar Serna Jr. stepped to the plate and launched a grand slam to left center field. We headed to the sixth inning with LSU up, 6-4. LSU extended their lead in the eighth. Curiel led things off with a walk. Brown then homered to right center field. We moved to the ninth inning with LSU leading, 8-4. Santiago Garcia did a fantastic job of keeping the Creighton bats quiet as he finished off the contest for the Bayou Bengals. The Tigers improve to 13-5. Next up LSU will travel to Nashville to play Vanderbilt in the season's opening SEC series. They will play game one on Friday, March 13 at 6:00pm. **We have our baseball/basketball edition of 'Talking Tigers with Da Boot Sports' live on our YouTube channel, Monday night at 8pm. Tune in for some LSU baseball & men's and women's basketball talk..... **Also Don't forget to watch our new LSU baseball podcast, 'CHASING OMAHA with SZN' every Tuesday night at 7:30pm on our Da Boot Sports YouTube Channel. We will have former LSU pitcher, Rick Green on this Wednesday night as our special guest. due to the Tigers playing on Tuesday night. Don't miss it. *John 14:6 - "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (Accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior) *John 3;16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
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