{"id":609255,"date":"2026-02-23T00:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/609255\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:38:11","slug":"lsu-takes-over-jacksonville-aka-omaha-southeast-with-weekend-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/609255\/","title":{"rendered":"LSU Takes Over Jacksonville \u2013 AKA Omaha Southeast \u2013 With Weekend Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LSUBaseballVCFlorida022226_WilliamSchmidt_LSUAthletics.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LSUBaseballVCFlorida022226_WilliamSchmidt_LSUAthletics\"\/><br \/>\nLSU sophomore starter William Schmidt of Catholic High struck out seven and allowed just three hits for an 11-0 win over Central Florida Sunday in Jacksonville, Florida. (LSU photo).<\/p>\n<p>By GLENN GUILBEAU, Tiger Rag Editor<\/p>\n<p>It was not a spring break trip for the LSU baseball team, but it could have been.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 1 Tigers kicked sand in their third straight opponent\u2019s face Sunday at the JAX College Baseball Classic in Jacksonville, Florida, with an 11-0, 10-run rule victory in seven innings over Central Florida on 10 hits and three-hit pitching from sophomore William Schmidt.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Notre Dame coach Shawn Stiffler blown away by LSU\u2019s bat discipline Saturday. \u201cThey don\u2019t swing. They don\u2019t chase. It\u2019s funny \u2013 by doing nothing, they create so much pressure by just standing there.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JU8pk2UvzV\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/JU8pk2UvzV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Guilbeau (@SportBeatTweet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportBeatTweet\/status\/2025356045086871687?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LSU (8-0) beat Notre Dame, 9-4, on Saturday on 12 hits and defeated Indiana, 14-7, on Friday with 18 hits.<\/p>\n<p>Cade Arrambide hit his second home run in two days \u2013 a two-run shot in the top of the fifth inning for a 5-0 lead. Derek Curiel went 3-for-4 with three RBIs, including a two-run double in the seventh to put LSU up 10-0. And Jake Brown went 2-for-5 with three RBIs with a two-run single in the seventh for the 11-0 advantage. Steven Milam was 2-for-4 with two runs scored.<\/p>\n<p>Mavrick Rizy allowed no hits over the final two innings with a strikeout. Schmidt (2-0) went five innings and walked one.<\/p>\n<p>Brown had an RBI single in the third inning for a 1-0 lead before Trent Caraway hit a sacrifice fly and Milam scored on a balk.<\/p>\n<p>LSU hosts McNeese State at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday on SEC Network+.<\/p>\n<p>(This story will be updated.) <\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU sophomore starter William Schmidt of Catholic High struck out seven and allowed just three hits for an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":609256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,36463,3188,723,7310,261699,2970,4825,16660,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,261700],"class_list":["post-609255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-central-florida","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jay-johnson","tag-lsu","tag-lsu-baseball","tag-lsu-tigers","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-william-schmidt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116117157112469560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}