Bayou Brew 5/18: Field of Skenes

Good morning. Congratulations to the men’s golf team for an incredible season that ended in the NCAA Tournament!

What's steeping in today's Brew?

🎥 Pitching Ninja takes on Paul Skenes
⚾️ On the road again
🐯 And much, much more!

Paul Ball. Rob Friedman, better known as Pitching Ninja, breaks down Paul Skenes and his pitches in this weeks episode of Tigers Win. You absolutely don’t want to miss this episode from the film room. Check it out now!

🔼 Field Of Skenes. The Tigers are headed to Athens for the regular season finale against Georgia. The series kicks off tonight, which means it’s Paul Skenes Day, so act accordingly. Paul was National Player of the Week last week and sits No. 1 in the conference in ERA, innings pitches, and opponent batting average. He also leads the nation in strikeouts with 152. LSU’s 40-12 record is it’s best through 52 games since 2015. The Bulldogs sit at 28-24 overall and 10-17 in conference play. First pitch from Foley Field is at 5:00pm.

🔼 Crewsin’ In The Community. The SEC named Dylan Crews to the Community Service Team for the second year in a row. Dylan works with Families Helping Families of Greater Baton Rouge which supports families with members who have physical, cognitive, mental, emotional, or behavioral disabilities. He also works with an all-abilities baseball league with youth and young adults called Team of Dreams. Keep being great, Dylan!

🔼 Watching You. We have more lists to watch, Coach Garrett Runion has been named to the 2022-2023 Women’s Golf Coaches Association’s National Coach of the Year Watch List! Coach Runion will be leading the Tigers to their third straight NCAA Championship this weekend.

🔼 Dynamic Duo. Two LSU track stars made The Bowerman Post-Conference Championships Watch List. Alia Armstrong has been a regular to the watch list, but this is Michaela Rose’s debut. Michaela is a 2x SEC 800m Champion, took 5 LSU records, and has a world-leading 7 sub-2:02 800’s this year. The two of them have set 6 LSU records this season, hold 2 nation leads, and took 3 gold medals at the SEC Championships.

Fearless Leader. We mentioned Garrett Runion and the ladies making their third straight title run.

Do you know how long Coach Runion has been at LSU?

Think you got it? Scroll to the bottom of this email for the answer. 

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Thursday 5/18

⚾️ Baseball at Georgia @ 5:00pm | SEC Network+

Answer: 5 years

Garrett Runion was hired to lead the Tigers in 2018. He is also an LSU alum!

Have a great Thursday, y'all.