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Danny Heitman AT RANDOM

Small summer respites can become a game-changer When my wife and I boarded an airliner for San Diego last month, we had plenty of company on the flight. The summer travel season was in high gear, and our plane brimmed like a biblical ark.

The boarding line stalled as passengers tried to squeeze luggage into carry-on bins.

Travelers inched over each other to shoehorn themselves into the narrow seats. There were sighs all around as everyone sized up the prospect of crossing half the country in such tight quarters.

Wedged in place, I thought of a magazine interview I did last year with Arthur Brooks, who writes and lectures about the science of happiness. He travels a lot, which means many hours on commercial flights. Brooks has come to see it as an opportunity. As he explained, “the airplane is a great laboratory” for a social scientist.

He gets to see human behavior in all its variety.

In that spirit, my wife and I focused our attention on the senior airline attendant on our flight, a personable woman named Pamela. In the midst of the bustle, she remained serene, finding a couple of spare seats to create slightly more room. Pamela smiled calmly as she worked the aisle, even joking with a passenger who had requested, tongue-incheek, to be moved to first class.

“I’m happy to do that,” she responded with a wink, “as long as you’re willing to sit in someone’s lap.”

Impressed by Pamela’s easygoing attitude on what was obviously a stressful day, my wife asked her the secret to her good humor.

“I had the day off yesterday,” she told us. “It helped a lot.”

Can a single day of rest really be a game-changer? Such a small interlude of respite might seem like a trifling thing here in summer, when thoughts so often turn to weeklong idylls on the beach and the pleasure of extended time off the clock.

But when I spoke with novelist Ann Patchett a few weeks ago, she touched on this very thing. Patchett is especially busy this summer as she promotes “Whistler,” her new novel, but her work as an author and bookstore owner in Nashville keeps her active all year. Patchett has built a life filled with people, and she seems deeply grateful for the community it’s created.

Even so, she’s found that just a single day alone can be restorative.

“And if I spend a whole day by myself, in which I never get in the car, it’s like I’ve spent the day plugged into a generator,” she said. “I have so much energy. I have so many great ideas. I can solve any problem, do anything, if I don’t have to see people.”

My trip to California gave me a nice weeklong break. I’m back in the thick of things, but it’s good to know that when I need a breather, even a day away from the grind might be worth it.

Email Danny Heitman at danny@dannyheitman.com.

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Luke Lipsey, Wendy Lipsey, Anna Aronson, Marla Aronson, Laurie Aronson, Susan Lipsey and Richard Lipsey

Richard Lipsey stood with JFK and danced with Jackie. But this Louisiana icon’s proudest role is Pops

BY JAN RISHER Staff writer

Richard Lipsey briefed presidents and built one of the country’s largest firearms businesses. Ask his children and grandchildren about him, though, and the stories get smaller — and that is the point.

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Richard Lipsey in 1963 in his dress uniform in Washington, D.C.

t Jacqueline Kennedy’s command, the 24-year-old lieutenant from Baton Rouge took the first lady onto the dance floor at the White House. By then, Richard Lipsey was already a fixture of the Kennedy Camelot days. He had landed there as an aide to Gen. Philip Wehle who had plucked him from Fort Polk to work receiving lines in the Oval Office.

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Richard Lipsey, king of 2022 Washington Mardi Gras, with his grandson, Luke Lipsey.

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The Lipsey family are huge LSU and Kim Mulkey supporters. Pictured here, Laurie Aronson, Richard Lipsey, Kim Mulkey and Susan Lipsey.

In October 1963, weeks before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Marshal Tito, of Yugoslavia, was at the White House to meet with JFK. As Lipsey entered the room for the meeting, camera in hand, a guard told him cameras weren’t allowed. The president said otherwise.

The photographs Lipsey took that day of the president with Tito turned out to be among the last taken of JFK in Washington. Six decades later, ask Lipsey what he is proudest of, and he doesn’t mention Camelot — not the Kennedys, not the White House.

“My family’s what I’m most proud of,” Lipsey said, and began to list them: his two daughters, Laurie and Wendy, his grandchildren and his wife of 63

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STAFF FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL JOHNSON

LSU coach Jay Johnson celebrates with Richard Lipsey as the Tigers punched its ticket to Omaha in 2025.

“He never missed anything.”

LAURIE LIPSEY ARONSON, Richard Lipsey’s daughter, on his ability to balance family and work

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BY THE NUMBERS

LOUISIANA LEADS DECLINE IN U.S. DIVORCE RATES Divorce is down in America, and Louisiana has the lowest divorce rate in the country.

In 2023, over 1.8 million Americans divorced. Additionally, a third of Americans who have ever been married have also experienced divorce.

Louisiana saw its lowest divorce rate in 2022 with 0.7 divorces per 1,000 people. In 2023, that rate increased to 0.9 divorces — still the lowest rate in the country, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Pew Research Center reported that the refined divorce rate in the U.S. peaked around 1980, at 22.6 divorces per 1,000 married women, before falling slightly to 20.5 in 2008.

It has fallen more sharply in the past 15 years, to 14.4 divorces per 1,000 married women in 2023.

One reason the divorce rate has declined is who is most likely to get married these days, according to the Pew Research Center. Over time, the married population has shifted toward adults with higher levels of education as people with lower levels of education have become less likely to marry. Adults with more education are less likely to divorce, and these shifts have driven down the divorce rate.

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Other reasons for declining divorce rates include a decline in marriages, increased access to couples therapy and pandemicrelated delays in both marriage and divorce.

In the past decade, Louisiana’s divorce rate has been halved: n 2.2 per 1,000 people in 2013; n 2.3 per 1,000 people in 2014; n 2.8 per 1,000 people in 2015; n 2 divorces per 1,000 people in 2016; n 1.9 divorces per 1,000 people in 2017; n 1.7 divorces per 1,000 people in 2018; n 2.4 divorces per 1,000 people in 2019; n 1.4 divorces per 1,000 people in 2020; n 2.2 divorces per 1,000 people in 2021; n 0.7 divorces per 1,000 people in 2022; n 0.9 divorces per 1,000 people in 2023.

These states had the highest divorce rates in the U.S. in 2023: n Nevada with 3.8 divorces per 1,000; n Idaho and Wyoming with 3.4 divorces per 1,000; n Oklahoma with 3.3 divorces per 1,000; n Alaska and Utah with 3.1 divorces per 1,000; n Alabama, Arkansas and Florida with 3 divorces per 1,000.

These states had the lowest divorce rates in

Divorce in America The number of divorces per 1,000 people living in the each U.S. state in 2023.

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the U.S. in 2023: n Louisiana with 0.9 divorces per 1,000; n Illinois with 1.2 divorces per 1,000; n Kansas with 1.7 divorces per 1,000; n Massachusetts with 1.8 divorces per 1,000; n Iowa with 1.9 divorces per 1,000; n Arizona with 2 divorces per 1,000; n Texas and Wisconsin with 2.1 divorces per 1,000.

Louisiana: 0.9 Staff graphic

Divorce rates, collected by the National Center for Health Statistics, are based on provisional state counts of divorces. Each divorce, including annulments, is counted in the state in which the marriage was legally ended or legally petitioned to end.

California, Hawaii, Indiana, Minnesota and New Mexico did not report data to the CDC and are not included in this data set.

has worked alongside her father for 33 years and now Continued from page 1G runs the company he built, said his six-days-a-week work schedule never got in the way of supporting his children years, Susan.

There is, in fact, a great deal more he and grandchildren.

“He never missed anycould have named.

At 86, Lipsey has lived several lives’ thing,” she said. worth of remarkability — and has a Wendy Lipsey remembers book coming out Saturdays at Steinlater this year to berg’s, where “put prove it. us to work” mostly meant hiding in Bound to secrecy camping tents and jumping out at cusAfter the Army, he came home, tomers. The girls earned a Master also spent hours of Business Adcranking an antiquated machine ministration at that spun red bows Harvard Univerfor gift wrap, hunsity and transdreds of them, into formed his famiPROVIDED PHOTO a box. ly’s retail sporting And there was the goods business, Luke and Richard Lipsey phone.

Steinberg’s, into hunting in Canada PROVIDED PHOTO BY HEATHER McCLELLAND Their father had Stacia Haynie, dean of students for the LSU College of Humanities and Social Sciences, what is now one a rule: no matter of the country’s interviews Richard Lipsey, an LSU political scientist, who worked as an aide to President John F. who sat across the largest wholesale desk — a governor, Kennedy when he was assassinated, during their fireside chat style talk at TEDxLSU 2018. firearms distribua chief executive, tors, Lipsey’s. anyone — if one of his daughHis grandson, Luke Lipsey, said ters or grandchildren called, he the Dos Equis man answered. needs to move “Excuse me a minute. This is over because, in my daughter,” he would say. reality, Richard He spent a few seconds to be Lipsey is the most sure everyone was all right, interesting man in and then he would call back. the world.

The purple popsicle Despite the glamour of the Richard Lipsey’s approach Kennedy days in to fatherhood is linked to his the White House, PROVIDED PHOTO own father. Growing up, his PROVIDED PHOTO Richard Lipsey Richard Lipsey with his family would go downtown for PROVIDED PHOTO was also there for dinner at the Piccadilly — all Richard Lipsey took this photo in 1963. the darkest hours. granddaughter Anna Aronson four of them fed for under $2. Richard Lipsey describes this photo as: He describes it as: ‘The last known I n N o v e m b e r and his wife, Susan Haspel He remembers that every time ‘Returning JFK’s body to the East Room 1963, the young Lipsey. a struggling family walked in, of the White house at 4:30 a.m. after the picture of JFK on the White house lawn with foreign dignitary Marshall lieutenant was the his father would find a waiter autopsy. First lady Jackie is in the pink officer placed in charge of the assassinat- and slip them a couple of bills, with insuit she had worn all that day and night.’ Tito, president of the Socialist Federal ed president’s body. He was the only man structions to feed that family.

Republic of Yugoslavia.’ Other people at the autopsy who was not a physician.

Richard Lipsey’s mother, Anna Lipsey, Richard Lipsey is by the door next to in the photograph include Tito’s wife, Bound to secrecy for years, he kept all helped found Mary Bird Perkins Cancer family and staff members.

Jovanka Broz, an unnamed interpreter, of it to himself, and when the restriction Center, a place the family still treats as was lifted around 1978, he still turned sacred ground. Wendy Lipsey spent her handed them out each month at Our Lady Secretary of State Dean Rusk and down the talk shows out of respect for young adulthood volunteering on its che- of the Lake Children’s Hospital, trade- Eunice Kennedy Shriver, JFK’s sister. the Kennedy family. He has never made motherapy floor, making beds and hold- marking the name “Luke’s Popsicle Pals.” a dollar from any of it.

“It’s a generational thing,” Wendy one who flew to Vietnam last summer ing the bucket for patients too sick to lift “My grandfather does not embellish their own heads.

Lipsey said. with her and her younger sister Marla things,” Luke Lipsey said. “He’s very And she has written her own chapter Aronson. The summer before that, he Then came the purple popsicle. straight-shooting. No pun intended.”

After Wendy Lipsey had a liver trans- of it. The two transplants that nearly peeled off from the group in London to All of those larger-than-life details, plant in 2009 and a kidney transplant in took her turned her into a certified or- find Indian food with her when no one though, represent the sliver.

2015, the one thing she could keep down gan-donation speaker, carrying her story else would go.

That is the word his family keeps was a grape popsicle. Her son Luke rec- across Louisiana, and the founder of an The most lasting testimony to Richard reaching for when the Kennedy years ognized the power of the popsicle and annual gala, Fais Do Donate.

Lipsey’s legacy may have come from the come up — a sliver of a far larger life. wondered, “If a purple popsicle could After this spring’s event, her father only grandson. Luke Lipsey’s parents diHe came home and became an advocate do that much for his mother, what might told her what he tells her every time: vorced more than a decade ago. About for Baton Rouge, a huge LSU supporter it do for someone else?”

“You are literally saving lives.” four years ago, he decided he wanted to and several other causes.

He used his allowance to buy popsicles carry the Lipsey name forward — and he Asked to describe him, his daugh- for others for years. In 2016, he started Carrying the name went to his grandfather first.

“If you don’t support this idea, I will ters and grandchildren R i c h a r d L i p s e y ’s didn’t say “historic” or grandchildren grew up not do this, out of respect for you,” he “famous.” inside the gravity of the told him.

With his grandfather’s blessing, Luke Laurie Lipsey Aronname.

Anna Aronson, his old- went through the courts and became son said honorable, a class act. Wendy Lipsey est grandchild, did not Luke Lipsey.

He said he wanted to go through with said a true Southern love it at first. She regentleman. Anna Aronmembers walking into this while his grandfather was alive. He almost any Baton Rouge borrows a sentiment from another Baton son said a leader, a man restaurant and someone Rouge figure the family holds close, LSU of integrity, charitable. there knowing exactly basketball coach Kim Mulkey, who likes to Luke Lipsey said kind, whose granddaughter say: Give me my flowers while I’m alive. thoughtful, genius.

Richard Lipsey will most likely spend she was.

‘He never missed “I love being Richard part of this Father’s Day where his famLipsey’s granddaugh- ily can find him — at Phil’s Oyster Bar anything’ ter,” she said. “But being or in front of a ballgame — being, to the my own person in New people who get to call him Dad and Pops, What his children marYork is also very special the most interesting man in the world vel at is not the rocking precisely because he has never acted to me.” chair in the Oval Office She has learned, too, like it. but that he has consisthat the man who wears a tently shown up.

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AT THE TABLE Fill your empty nest with the aroma of sourdough I am an empty nester now.

Both of my children have graduated from high school and spend the school year in cities away from home. This summer, they are farther away still — out of state, working, exploring and collecting the kind of experiences that only this stage of life can offer.

Meanwhile, I remain at home, watching the dog and keeping my daughter’s sourdough starter Olivia Regard alive until she returns.

I’m no stranger to sourdough. During the pandemic, I eagerly joined the ritual of tending a jar on the counter — feeding, discarding, baking.

After a few years and one ill-timed trip, I let mine go. Yet here I am again, reacquainting myself with the rhythm of sourdough.

There is a quiet kind of magic in flour and water left to sit. With regular feedings, it stirs and sighs with bubbles, alive and capable of transforming the simplest ingredients into something layered and complex. Maintaining it feels less like a science experiment and more like a ritual.

With my prior starter, bread was on regular rotation. But this time, I find myself drawn to baking something less expected and exploring ways sourdough can slip into everyday moments rather than anchor an all-day baking project.

I’ve been folding this starter into recipes that feel both familiar and quietly transformed.

Sourdough English muffins, tender with nooks ready to catch butter, deliver the character of long fermentation without the ceremony of a loaf. And sourdough cookies — perhaps most surprising — are thick and chewy with a gentle tang that deepens sweetness and adds unexpected complexity.

In this season of transition, as routines shift and the house grows quieter, sourdough feels less like a challenge and more like a companion — adaptable, forgiving and quietly alive. Sometimes, transformation looks like a perfectly risen loaf. And sometimes, it’s an English muffin at breakfast or a warm cookie at the end of the day.

Sourdough English Muffins

Makes 1 dozen English muffins.

Recipe is adapted from King Arthur Flour.

1 tablespoon granulated sugar 1 cup water, warm (110 F-115 F) 1/2 tablespoon active dry yeast 1/2 cup sourdough starter, ripe (fed) or discard (ripe will give you a more vigorous rise) 31/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 cup nonfat dry milk 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature 1/2 tablespoon kosher salt Yellow cornmeal, for coating 1. Combine all the ingredients, except the cornmeal, in a large bowl.

2. Mix and knead — by hand, electric mixer or bread machine — to form a smooth dough that is soft and elastic, but not particularly sticky. Add additional flour if necessary.

3. Place the dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover, and set it aside to rise for about 11/2 hours, or until it’s noticeably puffy. (Note: For the most pronounced sour flavor, cover the bowl and immediately place it in the refrigerator, without rising first. Let the dough chill for 24 hours to develop its flavor.)

4. Gently deflate the dough and turn it out onto a lightly floured work surface. Cover it and let it sit for a few minutes to allow the gluten to relax.

5. Divide the dough in half.

Working with one piece at a time, roll the dough to 1/2inch thick, and cut into 3-inch rounds. Re-roll and cut any remaining scraps. Repeat with the remaining half of dough.

6. Place the 12 rounds onto cornmeal-sprinkled baking sheet. Sprinkle with additional cornmeal, cover with plastic wrap and let rise until light and puffy, about 1 hour. If the

PHOTOS BY OLIVIA REGARD

Sourdough English Muffins dough has been refrigerated overnight, the rise time will be about 2 hours.

7. Carefully transfer the rounds (as many at a time that will fit without crowding) rightside-up to a large electric griddle preheated to 350 F or to an ungreased frying pan that has been preheated over mediumlow heat.

8. Cook the muffins for about

5 minutes on their first side; then lay a cake pan, cookie sheet, or similar flat (though not overly heavy) object atop them to help keep them flat.

Continue cooking for about 7 minutes. Remove the pan, turn over the muffins and finish cooking without the pan on top for a total of about 10 to 12 minutes (the center of a muffin should register 190 F on a digi-

Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies Makes 1 dozen cookies. Recipe is from Camille Regard, as adapted from Little Spoon Farm.

13/4 cup + 2 teaspoons all-purpose 8 tablespoons unsalted butter (cubed and kept cold) flour 1/2 cup light brown sugar 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 11/2 cups chocolate chips (semi1/2 teaspoon baking powder sweet or milk chocolate) 1 large egg Flaky sea salt 1/2 cup sourdough starter discard 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1. Whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a small bowl. Set aside.

2. In a separate bowl, beat the egg, vanilla extract and sourdough starter until smooth. Set aside.

3. Place the cold, cubed butter, light brown sugar and granulated sugar into the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment. Beat at a low speed until the mixture forms small crumbles. Stir in the chocolate chips. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.

4. Add the dry ingredients and mix at low speed until the

Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies

tal thermometer).

9. Remove the muffins from the griddle and cool on a rack before splitting in half. (Use a fork for maximum nooks and crannies.) Serve toasted or at room temperature.

Storage note: Store leftover sourdough English muffins tightly wrapped at room temperature for four or five days; freeze for longer storage.

batter starts to become a crumbly mixture.

5. Pour in the egg mixture and mix on low speed until the dough comes together and starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl.

6. Stir the batter, using a spatula, to ensure the ingredients are fully incorporated.

7. Use a cookie scoop to portion the dough into 12 balls and place on a parchment-lined baking tray. Cover dough with plastic wrap so they do not dry out and chill the dough in the refrigerator for a minimum of 2 hours up to 24 hours.

8. Preheat the oven to 375 F. Prior to baking, sprinkle each cookie with flaky sea salt and bake the cookies for 15-17 minutes until the edges are golden brown and the center still appears slightly under-baked.

9. Remove from the oven and allow the cookies to rest on the baking sheet for 5 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Note: Store baked cookies at room temperature in an airtight container for up to seven days. Store unbaked cookie dough in the fridge, covered tightly for up to seven days.

Freeze unbaked dough by portioning out the dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet and flash-freezing for 15 minutes. Transfer frozen dough balls into a freezer-safe container and keep them frozen for up to three months.

HEALTH Pennington doctor bridges research and patient care once a month at a ‘We’re still in an program clinic in southwest Louisiseeing sometimes 30 obesity epidemic’ ana, patients in one day.

quite sure what path I was going to take. Nursing, at the time, was in very high demand, and it seemed to offer the most opportunity Gilbert graduated mediBY MARGARET DELANEY for diversity if I decided to cal school in 2006 from Staff writer move on to something difLSU Health New Orleans, trained in internal medicine ferent.

Dr. Tim Gilbert, a Lake at LSU in Baton Rouge and When I went to medical Charles native, knew he completed his fellowship in school, because of my backwanted to be in healthcare. endocrinology at Ochsner What started as bachelor’s ground in nursing in the in New Orleans. in nursing from McNeese ICU, I thought I was going In addition to obesity, State University turned to do pulmonary critical Type 1 and Type 2 into a career in care. diabetes patients, endocrinology and Endocrine is a lot of Gilbert also treats leading Pennington feedback loops, a lot of biopatients with thyBiomedical Center’s chemistry. It either clicks first independent for you or it doesn’t. For roid, pituitary, outpatient clinic. me, it just clicked. adrenal, Polycystic Pennington, a What brought you to Pennington Ovary Syndrome global research Biomedical Research Center? and more diseases center for metaIt was really out of the of the endocrine Gilbert blue. I was had been worksystem. bolic, nutrition and This interview has been lifestyle in Baton Rouge, ing in Lake Charles for 20 edited for length and clarity. years, and was thinking in opened the endocrinolWhat sparked your interests in the back of my head about a ogy and diabetes clinic in healthcare? change. I really wasn’t lookMarch 2025. Gilbert lead There was an interest the charge for the center, ing, and this position didn’t in healthcare, but I didn’t “even down to the phone exist before me. have anybody in healthcare number,” he said.

I was dating a girl (who For the past 18 years, Gil- in my family. My dad was I’m now engaged to) who’s from Baton Rouge. I was bert has run a diabetes pro- a firefighter, and my mom gram at the Cashadi Indian worked in the dental field as driving into the city one an assistant.

Thursday evening and got Reservation in Elton. He When I started, I wasn’t a call from the then CEO of runs an outpatient diabetes

Pennington John Kirwan.

Initially the conversations were about me consulting with the center. But that quickly led into me moving.

What was the vision for the center’s first clinic?

Pennington has been doing cutting edge, worldrenowned research for almost 40 years. They’re recognized as a global leader in medical research, specializing in metabolic health and endocrine disorders. The vision was expanding the mission of Pennington to go beyond research, but to take it to true patient care and patient treatment.

We started seeing patients in March of 2025 after about four to five months’ leg work of onboarding and getting the staff that we needed.

The goal was to bridge research by some of the top scientists in the world and bench-level research and merge it with a clinic that’s actually treating patients.

We were participating in

pretty much the research of every obesity drug on the market — and many more to come — as well as a lot of other nutritional studies and lifestyle modification studies.

Also, we now have the ability to recognize patients that we see in clinic that may be candidates for studies, and have the ability to move patients into an appropriate study, whether that be for obesity or thyroid disease.

What are some incoming research studies?

We have an upcoming study with Amgen, called a switch study.

We’re looking at patients who are currently on a maximal dose or maximum tolerated doses of the weight loss drugs Wegovy and Zepbound, but are not at their goal weight. We had these patients switch to Maritide to see if we can achieve further weight reduction.

All three weight loss drugs have slightly different active ingredients:

Wegovy contains only semaglutide, or GLP-1s, and Zepbound combines GLP-1s and a peptide mimicking a natural hormone in the body that regulates fat storage in the gut.

Maritide is a once monthly injectable that combines different peptide formulations of gut hormones that could be effective in weight loss when Wegovy or Zepbound don’t work.

We’re also looking at potentially starting a new study for hyperthyroidism, or Graves’ disease.

That’s exciting because there’s not been any new treatments made available for hyperactive thyroid or overactive thyroid in the last 30-plus years.

At Pennington, we average between probably 65 and 80 clinical trials at any given time — everything from maternal fetal health to pediatrics, to adult physiology and more.

Email Margaret DeLaney at margaret.delaney@ theadvocate.com.

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LSU center fielder Chhris Stanfield, right, celebrates with catcher Luis Hernandez as they both score on a two-run single by left fielder Derek Curiel in the fourth inning of Game 2 of the Collegge World Series finals against Coastal Carolina on Sunday at Charles Schwab Field in Omaha, Neb. LSU scored four runs in the decisive inning and won 5-3 to earn its ssecond title under coach Jay Johnson in four years.

BY KOKI RILEY OMAHA, Neb. — To calll anything a dynasty requires a certain level of consiistent, championship excellence.

The Boston Celtic cs in the 60s, New York Yankees in the 90s and UCo onn women’s basketball in the 2010s certainly fit th he description. LSU winning five national championsh hips in 10 years under Skip Bertman definitely qualiifies.

Coach Jay Johnson n’s Tigers aren’t quite there yet, but what LSU acco omplished Sunday afternoon at Charles Schwab Fielld was remarkable nevertheless and potentially the b beginning of another baseball dynasty in Baton Roug ge.

For the eighth tim me in program history, and for

the second time in three seasons, LSU won the national championship. The Tigers took down Coastal Carolina 5-3 in Game 2 of the College World Series final to secure the 2025 title.

“Unbelievable. I’m so proud right now,” Johnson said. “It’s not to be taken for granted being here two years ago. That was special. Greatest night of my life.

“This is equal and maybe even tops it in some ways.”

The win secured Johnson’s second title in four years at LSU, making him the first coach in college baseball history to accomplish that feat at the same school.

The Tigers did it despite bringing back just 12 players who appeared in a game from last year’s team, adding 12 players from the transfer portal,

three junior-college recruits and 10 freshmen in the offseason.

“We (added) really talented freshmen ...,” Johnson said. “In a month’s time, we were able to add Chris (Stanfield). We were able to add Anthony (Eyanson), Zac Cowan, Luis Hernandez, Danny Dickinson to those 12 guys who were the right 12 guys.”

With the score tied 1-1, the fourth inning proved to be the difference between a coronation and a Game 3 on Monday. The Tigers scored four runs on a walk, a hit by pitch and four singles to take a 5-1 lead.

Sophomore Jake Brown led off with a walk before a single from junior Jared Jones and a hit by pitch loaded the bases for the junior Stanfield.

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