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Daughter of legendary gymnast finds home at LSU

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With a bat in her hand, a wiffle ball soaring through the sky and her three sisters, mother and father in the field, McKenna Kelley’s gymnastics career began.

Kelley, LSU’s freshman all-arounder, knew and loved the spirit of competition in her household growing up.

Kelley is the daughter of International Gymnastics Hall of Fame member and 1984 Summer Olympics All-Around gold medalist Mary Lou Retton, and 1988 University of Texas quarterback Shannon Kelley.

As the spawn of two world-renowned athletes, McKenna embraced her family’s passion for sports from the get-go.

“There was always some sort of competition, some kind of race, and I always had to be the winner in the end,” McKenna said. “We always did athletic, outside or outdoor type of things. My family loved to play wiffle ball. We’d always go to the park or ride bikes.”

Back at home, McKenna said she remembered the beginning of her gymnastics career.

Thanks to Retton, McKenna will never forget jumping on her

first trampoline.

“She put us all in the sport of gymnastics,” McKenna said. “One, because that’s what she knew. But two, what little kid doesn’t want to jump on a trampoline? It’s something we each developed a passion for.”

Her mother — an Olympic gymnast with one gold, two silver and two bronze medals, who became the first and only American gymnast to win a gold medal in gymnastics — didn’t pressure the Kelley girls into gymnastics, McKenna said. It was their choosing.

McKenna, though, does remember her first teaching moment with her mother, the one-time “Most Popular Athlete in America,” according to the Associated Press.

“I vividly remember one time, we were up in the playroom,” McKenna said. “She taught us this dance move — the ‘Switch Leap.’”

As McKenna and her three sisters, Shayla, Skyla and Emma, developed a passion for gymnastics, Retton rarely stepped in to teach or coach them.

“She’s never really done that on her own to benefit us,” McKenna said. “It’s really just a mom and daughters having a good time.”

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CAMPUS LIFE

Presenters talk social media, childhood obesity at TEDxLSU

BY CAITIE BURKES @caitie1221 In a lineup composed of musicians, scientists and even a nun, several University alumni and employees took on the Union Theater stage for this year’s TEDxLSU event.

Ginger Guttner, director of public relations for the School of Veterinary Medicine, explained to the sold-out audience why she pretends to be a tiger on the Internet.

For the past six years, Guttner has given a voice to Mike the

Tiger. Assuming the personality of the beloved mascot, Guttner injects humor into the vet school’s social media accounts.

Following “a trifecta of bad Facebook posts” written about Mike, Guttner decided to speak on his behalf when a sick child asked Mike a question on the social media platform. At first, she said her greatest obstacles were knowing what to say and how to say it.

“I don’t know if he’s excited that the football team beat Florida or if he thinks Nick Saban is the devil,” Guttner said.

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Her first post as Mike included a picture of the tiger, with the caption: “Do these stripes make me look fat?” After a tremendous response from the University community, Guttner said she realized “it’s okay to be a little silly” when it comes to social media branding.

She said so many people felt like they grew up with Mike or one of his predecessors, and she felt honored to be his voice.

“I am proud to be a Tiger,” Guttner said.

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and Education graduate, studies childhood obesity at Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

With 5.3 million people dying each year because “they aren’t active enough,” she said today’s children are projected to have lower life expectancies than their parents.

In a world dominated by technology, she said children are not as inclined to move, increasing their chances of gaining weight.

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page 2 MCKENNA, from page 1 The four girls, under Shannon’s and Retton’s influence, grew up competing. For two, gymnastics stuck. For the others, it was only tumbling.

Shayla, 20, spends her time at Baylor on a tumbling team. Skyla, 15, is a competitive cheerleader, and Emma, 13, and McKenna, 18, are still involved in competitive gymnastics.

How did Retton allow her four daughters to not all become elite gymnasts?

She’s too realistic, McKenna said.

“My mom is just like, ‘Do whatever you want to do,’” McKenna said.

McKenna grew up. She went through the elite stages of gymnastics, eventually championing the 2014 Nastia Lukin Cup at 16 years old.

She had it all: skills, work ethic, positivity and a mother with connections across the globe.

When it came time to choose a college, LSU was her last resort, McKenna, a Houston, Texas, native, said.

“You know, LSU was actually one of the last schools I looked at,” McKenna said. “My coach came up to me, and I’ll never

forget this. She said, ‘What about LSU? I just got a text from D-D,’ and I said ‘OK, sure!’ And I took a visit and immediately knew it was the right place for me.”

Being the daughter of Shannon and Retton — a two-year student at Texas, herself — competing in Texas was a thought for the Kelleys. But Texas Woman’s University, a Division II program located in Denton, Texas, was not in McKenna’s sights, though.

“I was looking for Division I,” she said.

How would competing in Louisiana, a neighboring, rival state to Texas, suit the Kelley family?

Shannon, now a real estate developer in Houston, loved the idea, McKenna said.

“Since he doesn’t have to pay for college, he was like ‘That’s fine with me!’” McKenna said.

On a visit to the University, which had yet to build its multimillion dollar practice facility, the Kelleys knew McKenna would be in good company.

“My family came and saw LSU with me and they were happy to know who I would be in the hands of,” McKenna said.

McKenna, a specialist on floor for the Tigers (10-2, 6-1 Southeastern Conference), has lived up to her family name during her

short time at LSU. LSU coach D-D Breaux, a longtime friend of Retton’s, knows McKenna’s career has only just begun.

Breaux said the polished McKenna knows this is the beginning of her personal career and not just an addition to her mother’s legacy. But Retton’s influence is beneficial to McKenna’s deftness.

“She makes it very easy,” Breaux said of having a gymnast with a mother of such imperial stature in the sport’s community.

“That carries a lot of pressure for Mary Lou, her family and for McKenna, but McKenna always keeps in mind that it’s [her] gymnastics and [her] performance and not her mom’s.”

LSU was the right place for McKenna, and Retton knew it, too.

“I feel like we had what Mary Lou wanted for her daughter,” Breaux said. “The key was we had to open the LSU book, say ‘This is your treasure chest, this is your X, come and find it.’”

Nine official collegiate meets in, and LSU is immediately benefitting from McKenna’s performances.

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Monday, March 7, 2016 Auburn on Feb. 19 was her season high. Floor, where she has experienced a few major deductions this season on stumbling out of bounds during her tumbling passes, is the only apparatus she’s competed thus far.

Her career is still in the molding process, Breaux said.

But McKenna’s light is beginning to shine. Her 9.925 and couplet of scores, at 9.850 and 9.800, earlier this season were signs of hope. Her 9.900 against Alabama on Friday made an even bigger splash, and Retton was there to watch her daughter glowingly capture center stage.

“Enjoy it. Enjoy it,” Retton said from the sidelines of Friday’s meet.

Throughout McKenna’s 9.900 routine, Retton couldn’t help but let her motherly advice mesh with her gymnastics expertise.

“Breathe, girl. Breathe,” Retton said. “Drive your heels. Patience. Go, McKenna! Go!” With her back to the judges, McKenna took off. Her legs churned forward, her heels pushed against the mat before leaping into her tumbling sequence of the second pass in her routine.

Gracefully, in a pose featuring a Tiger paw to the sky, McKenna’s routine ended as her mother looked on.

“That’s my baby!” Retton exclaimed as her performance concluded, high-fiving others surrounding her. “I’m so proud of her.”

Retton’s “baby” is the total package, Breaux said.

“The power. The strength of her tumbling,” Breaux said.

“She carries those qualities and is exuberant about what she does, besides being a good student and a good person. It’s a total package.”

TEDxLSU, from page 1 Staiano looks to “exergames” like Wii Fit as the future of combatting obesity in children.

Some video game consoles encourage “active play,” she said, allowing children to reach their necessary daily level of physical intensity.

“Rather than blame those screens ... let’s play to a child’s interests and join them on their virtual playing field,” Staiano said.

After implementing a series of experiments with exercise games, she discovered children who played tennis with a video game console burned more calories when they played against another gamer. However, the video gamers burned the most calories when they played on teams with other children.

Staiano concluded parents should promote exercise through a teamwork environment, making the most of the video games their children are already playing. However, she said fitness requires consistency and routine.

“We cannot afford to become complacent,” she said. “We can and we must do better for our children.”

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BACKING LANGE

every team his whole life, and he needs our help tonight,’” Jordan said. “ So, if you don’t want to get up and do it, let somebody else hit. We challenged ourselves as a team to get up there and not waste an at-bat.’”

By the way it started, it didn’t appear Lange would need much bolstering from his offense. He mowed down the first three hitters he faced in the top of the first, prompting three strikeouts swinging on 11 pitches. He retired the side again in the top of second, generating three groundouts, but the leadoff batter in the third inning kicked off the tough day for the Tiger righty.

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LSU sophomore outfielder Beau Jordan (24) bats during the Tigers’ 15-1 win against Fordham on Saturday at Alex Box Stadium.

Tiger offense carries Lange through subpar showing in Game 3

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he still hasn’t lost a game as a collegiate pitcher. A late charge from the offense, which had simmered throughout the first two games, made sure of that.

With a three-run deficit after Lange left the game and later a four-run deficit going into the bottom of the seventh, the No. 6 Tigers (9-2) scored all seven of their runs with two outs, recording five extra base hits to pull off the sweep of Saturday’s doubleheader and the series.

In a rare occurrence since Lange arrived in Baton Rouge, LSU put the preseason All-American on its shoulders, said sophomore left fielder Beau Jordan.

“I told these guys, ‘Lange has carried

BY JOSHUA THORNTON @JoshT_TDR The No. 5 LSU softball team, now winners of 15 straight matches, didn’t have much trouble with its opponents in the LSU Invitational this weekend.

Although LSU coach Beth Torina refuses to compare her 2016 squad to last year’s team, which started the season 25-0, the Tigers continue to find ways to win.

“It’s a completely different dynamic this year,” Torina said.

“Our personnel this year is so deep. We’re getting closer to understanding who we are.”

The Tigers won four of their five games by mercy-rule, outscoring teams 58-8.

LSU tied a program record for runs scored, demolishing Memphis (6-14) 17-2.

A pair of four inning outbursts helped drive the Tigers to a win.

“Hitting is contagious,” said junior third baseman Sahvanna Jaquish. “A lot of us have the ‘pass the bat’ mentality on our team.”

The Tigers got a special performance from a freshman in their next matchup against Tennessee Tech (5-13).

LSU beat Tennessee Tech 8-0, in five innings, behind a perfect game from freshman pitcher Sydney Smith (4-0).

Smith’s perfect game was just the fourth in program history.

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itchers, especially elite ones, often look at their performances as the sum of parts rather than a single outing.

So, what did sophomore right-handed pitcher Alex Lange think was wrong with his Game 3 start against Fordham on Saturday night?

“Everything,” Lange said on Saturday night. “I’ve just got to get better. I’ve got to throw the curveball for strikes. I’ve got to throw the changeup for strikes. I’ve got to put guys away when I can, and I’ve got to pitch in the clutch. I didn’t do that tonight.”

Even after, giving up career-highs in runs and earned runs in just five innings,

Tigers dominant in LSU Invitational

GYMNASTICS

Seniors post career-best numbers, make mark at last home meet

BY JACOB HAMILTON @jac0b_hamilt0n If you build it, they will come.

LSU gymnastics coach D-D Breaux built an elite program, and 13,296 people came to the PMAC on Friday for then-No. 4 LSU’s 197.925-196.225 victory against then-No. 3 Alabama.

Amid Breaux’s hard-earned first sellout crowd, junior allarounder Ashleigh Gnat’s fourth perfect 10 and LSU’s season-high score, Friday night was about the seniors.

“The seniors on this team have been outstanding athletes and students,” Breaux said.

“What you’re seeing in the air, the precision and the direction of our skills and the amount of difficulty that we’re doing is truly a tribute to our seniors.”

Nestled in the program-record crowd was each senior’s family. Breaux and the gymnasts dedicated the night to those parents, who paid tuition to gyms from the time their children were three years old and traveled great distances for meets.

“It just gets bigger and more of a burden on the family finances as they progress and go to a higher level,” Breaux said.

“These kids have taken advantage of every opportunity that has been presented to them, and I just cannot express how much we appreciate the sacrifice that the parents make to enable them to get to this point.”

Senior specialist Michelle Gauthier’s family, from Mandeville, Louisiana, made the short trip down Interstate 12 for Friday’s meet. But for senior

all-arounder Randii Wyrick’s and senior all-arounder Jessica Savona’s parents, a lot more went into it.

Wyrick said her mom promised to attend every meet this year before the season. Despite the expense of traveling across the country from Las Vegas, Nevada, every week, she has kept that promise.

Savona’s family traveled from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, just one of countless times they’ve made the international trip for a meet.

“My mom and my dad, they just do everything for [me],” Savona said. “That’s so commendable. Whenever I’m a parent, I want to be just like my parents.

Everybody can speak to this.

see ALABAMA, page 7

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LSU senior all-arounder Randii Wyrick prepares to perform on the bars during the Tigers’ 197.925-196.225 victory against Alabama in the PMAC on Friday.

Opinion

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University should abolish SG to save students money SMASH THE HATE

JACK RICHARDS @jayellrichy The relationship between the University and student fees is like the relationship between broke college students and stripping. It feels a little sleazy, unbecoming and you swear you’d never *actually* do it, but damn would it bring in the cash.

The only difference is, the University has been working late-night shifts at The Penthouse Club for years now. In fact, it might make “dancing” a fulltime gig if its sugar daddy, the state of Louisiana, doesn’t step up.

Required fees make up a small portion of a student’s bill compared to tuition and rent.

However, the amount has, with a few fluctuations, steadily increased over the years. The University wants to squeeze as much money out of students and their parents as is justifiable.

Imagine if the United States decided to take another $250 out of your paycheck. Anybody would be pissed off. However, if they took an extra $25 dollars every year for 10 years, it would seem more palatable, while still hitting just as hard.

That’s essentially what the University was forced to do.

According to the earliest data available on the University’s Office of Budget and Planning website, required fees rose from $494.70 in Fall 2011 to $636.45 in Spring 2016.

If the University really needs the money, and they do, I understand the need to raise student

fees. They’ve seen years of cuts from state government, and the trend looks likely to continue until serious change happens at the Capitol.

To replace the money students and parents lose to increased student fees, the University should do everything possible to make the financial burden easier on students in other areas.

One way it can ensure a smaller financial burden is by abolishing Student Government.

SG spent approximately $120,000 in Fall 2015, according to its recent Funding Report. Of the total expenses, $13,000 is specified as coming from nonstudent fee sources, but the vast majority comes from each of our pockets.

While SG provides important funding to a number of important

student organizations, including The Daily Reveille, individual students can better spend their own money.

Students can only access SG funding if they use it for schoolsponsored organizations. That means the majority of students who chose to spend their time doing something unrelated to what the University approves of are taxed for the benefit of others, and they have no way to access the majority of SG funding.

Included in the SG budget are a few thousand-dollar salaries for the SG president and vicepresident. The last few executives I can remember were all white fraternity brothers, so I see no reason for students with loans to subsidize those who can pony up a couple thousand a year for a social organization.

Refunding SG money does

more than give students enough cash for an extra lunch. It puts the power back in their hands.

If the organizations SG funds were important enough, students could give more back directly.

I dare the people at SG to conduct a survey. Ask students, in plain language, if they want their money back. Get at least one thousand students to answer. If I’m wrong that people don’t want to fund SG, I’ll eat a scantron.

If you vote for your SG representatives Monday, you won’t have a choice to refund your student fees and abolish a hierarchical, wasteful way of spending your money.

But, you should.

Jack Richards is a 21-year-old mass communication junior from New Orleans, Louisiana.

Financial regulation most important issue of 2016 presidential election JAY TALKING JAY CRANFORD @hjcranford Tax plans. Wall Street.

Minimum wage. Jobs moving overseas.

If you haven’t heard these soundbites, you haven’t been paying attention to the 2016 presidential election.

All the candidates, from democratic-socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont, to the arguably fascist Donald Trump, are talking about the economy.

Sure, they’ve mentioned health care and social issues, but lingering fears of the 2008 Great Recession still haunt many voters, making the economy consistently their No. 1 concern.

Even though we’re eight years removed from the largest economic downturn since the 1930s, we’re still navigating a post-financial crisis world. Our next president will determine the fate of America’s economy.

For this reason, I believe the most important issue of 2016 is financial regulation. In particular, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the law Congress passed in 2010 to regulate Wall Street as a response to the financial crisis.

Before we get too deep into how this impacts the 2016

election, let’s see how we got here and go back to the Great Depression. A lack of financial oversight aided the economic crash, so Congress increased banking regulations as a response. FDR signed the Banking Act of 1933, more commonly known as GlassSteagall into law.

Glass-Steagall separated commercial and retail banking from investment banks. Commercial and retail banks are the types of banks you and I are most familiar with. We use those for our checking and savings, and we get loans and mortgages from them.

For investment banks, think Wall Street and stock markets.

You don’t deposit money into these banks. You invest in stocks and bonds and hope for a profit.

Glass-Steagall also created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which protects your cash deposits. To achieve this, the government required commercial banks to only invest in low-risk investments — like government bonds.

Glass-Steagall reduced risky banking for more than 60 years.

Then-Pres. Bill Clinton repealed parts of Glass-Steagall in 1999, allowing banks to perform commercial banking, investment banking and insurance activities simultaneously. In other words, banks made risky investments with your money instead

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Many, including Pres. Barack Obama and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, believe repealing Glass-Steagall caused the 2008 recession. Critics argue repealing sections of Glass-Steagall allowed banks to become the “too big to fail” institutions we saw in 2008.

Others, like Bill Clinton, defend repealing the act, and he said getting rid of some of the law actually softened the blow.

This brings us back to DoddFrank. After the 2008 crisis, people wanted stricter regulations so Wall Street wouldn’t crash the economy. Dodd-Frank sought to be what Glass-Steagall was to the Great Depression.

The most important provision of Dodd-Frank was the Volcker Rule, which reinstated the separation of commercial and investment banking. Since its inception, many criticized the Volcker Rule, calling it unnecessary regulation.

However, people on the other side say the Volcker Rule has too many loopholes and gray areas. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, responded by proposing the 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act of 2015.

Hopefully, you now see that financial regulation laws may be the difference between a stable economy and another

recession. No matter who you vote for, understanding the magnitude of Wall Street and investment banks is important. It’ll affect our

country for decades to come.

Jay Cranford is a 21-year-old finance senior from St. Simons Island, Georgia.

Where the candidates stand on financial regulation Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton • Veto any legislation that would weaken financial reform • Fight for rules that go beyond Dodd-Frank • Would not reinstate Glass-Stegall

Sen. Bernie Sanders • Break up banks and insurance companies • Reinstate 21st century Glass-Stegall

Remaining Republicans • Repeal Dodd-Frank

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Monday, March 7, 2016 ALABAMA, from page 3 Their parents do everything for them.”

If it wasn’t already a special night, the last competition of their respective careers in the place they’ve called home for four years, the trio made it so with memorable performances on multiple events with their parents in attendance.

Savona went on vault first, scoring a 9.875.

INVITATIONAL, from page 3 the end [of the game],” Smith said.

“I was just really focusing on hitting my spots and just knowing that my team had my back.”

While offense combined to score 25 runs in both games on Friday, sophomore pitcher Carley Hoover stole the show Saturday and Sunday.

The Clemson, South Carolina native (8-0) started and pitched in three games this weekend.

Hoover earned wins in all three of her appearances, in 13 and 2/3 innings of work, only giving up two hits and striking out 26 of the 49 batters she faced.

On Saturday, the Tigers faced Liberty and in-state rival Louisiana Tech.

Hoover dominated from the start against Liberty (8-11),

LANGE, from page 3 “I just got ahead of myself,” Lange said. “I was working from behind, and when you work from behind, you get hurt. That’s the bottom line.”

A single to start the frame was followed by a sacrifice bunt and Lange’s fourth strikeout.

With two outs, Lange walked two straight batters on eight pitches, loading the bases. A run was then plated on Lange’s second wild pitch of the inning.

Despite a harmless fourth inning, Lange gave up three runs on four hits in the fifth, also issuing his third and final walk of the night. Another RBI single in the sixth and a throwing error by freshman infielder Trey Dawson led to a 6-3 Ram lead before Lange exited the game.

All the runs scored while Lange was on the mound came with two outs.

“Alex has been a great pitcher for us, but he walked a couple of guys and fell behind on counts,” Mainieri said. “He knows he can’t do that. I don’t care how good your stuff is. In college baseball, if you fall behind hitters, they’re going to hit you. And if you walk batters, it’s going to come back to haunt you.”

After rallying the offensive troops, Jordan led off the bottom of the seventh with a double. By the time the inning ended, Jordan was responsible for driving in the final run of the frame.

The seven-run swing was highlighted by junior second baseman Kramer Robertson’s game-tying, three-run double, as he hunted a first-pitch fastball.

“I wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to be late on it,” Robertson said. “I thought he

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The seniors’ efforts on bars were integral in LSU’s seasonhigh 49.475 on the event. Savona went first, setting the bar high for the rest of the lineup with a career-high tying 9.90.

A two-time First-Team AllAmerican on bars, Wyrick progressed through her bars set with minimal deductions, as she’s done countless times. With a stuck landing and emphatic celebration, Wyrick’s 9.925 tied her career high on the event.

“There’s a lot of teams out there that you kind of see the seniors fizzle, but we’ve had a tremendous amount of drive and leadership,” Breaux said. “They have demonstrated so much maturity and such a willingness to lead this team and make it be successful.”

Gauthier came off the beam during her flight series, though with encouragement from the Tiger faithful, she climbed back on the apparatus and gracefully

completed the remainder of her routine.

Next came floor, where the Tigers posted a 49.625. Gnat was perfect, but it was Wyrick and Savona who earned the loudest ovations.

Savona, who won the 2013 Southeastern Conference Floor Championship but tore a ankle ligament, has limited her to just three floor performances this season, reminded fans of her tumbling skills. The former

Canadian Olympian delivered with a career-high-tying 9.95.

With one last dab, Wyrick concluded her floor routine after three skillful tumbling passes.

The senior once again tied her career high with a 9.90.

“It was definitely all that I could’ve imagined and more,” Wyrick said. “Being able to step out there and see 13,000 fans cheering us on was one of the best feelings ever. I couldn’t have asked for a better Senior Night.”

retiring the side and throwing two strikeouts. She finished the game allowing one hit and notching 10 strikeouts. “[Hoover is] such a big competitor,” said senior catcher Kellsi Kloss. “Overall, [this was] probably the best performance I’ve seen this season so far.”

Two solo home runs from Jaquish helped propel the Tigers’ offense to a 8-0 victory against the Lady Flames.

Although Louisiana Tech came into Tiger Park with an upset in mind, the Tigers took care a business with a 9-6 win on Saturday.

The Lady Techsters (15-5) lit up Smith for five hits and three runs in three innings of work, putting the Tigers in a 6-2 hole.

Facing its biggest deficit of the season, Torina tried to stop the

bleeding by replacing Smith for junior pitcher Baylee Corbello.

But Corbello (4-0) didn’t fare much better.

She came in and threw one third of an inning, allowing three runs with two of them being earned.

Corbello’s ineffectiveness forced Torina to call on her ace.

Hoover replaced Corbello in the top of the fourth and fanned the next two batters to end the frame.

The pitching change helped rally the Tigers’ offense. After scoring two runs in the bottom of the fifth, LSU took a 9-6 lead in the sixth inning, behind Kloss’ two-out, three-RBI double.

Hoover keep the Lady Techstersat bay, allowing one hit and striking out nine.

“I think they have confi-

dence in the whole pitching staff,” Torina said. “I think they feel differently with her on the mound. It shows that we mean business.”

The Tigers dominated their last matchup of the tournament against Tennessee Tech (5-13), blanking the Golden Eagles, 16-0.

LSU again received a strong pitching performance from Hoover, who pitched a no-hitter, fanning seven batters.

The Tigers’ lineup exploded for 10 runs in the first inning, sparked by senior shortstop Bianka Bell, who finished the day 2-for-2 at the plate with two RBIs. LSU cruised for another victory.

LSU will play a doubleheader against Longwood Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. before

heading into a top-five matchup against rival No. 4 Alabama.

“Now is when the marathon starts in the season,” Hoover said. “We still have Longwood to face on Tuesday, so that’s our next focus right now.”

was going to try to challenge me there, and I guessed right.”

While this may be the worst blemish on Lange’s stellar career thus far, Robertson characterized the game as a young team maturing, not sitting idly when

its ace endured a rough night.

“Sometimes, you’re not going to have your best stuff,” Robertson said. “The team can pick up their pitcher when he’s struggling, and good pitchers can pick up their hitters when they’re

struggling. That’s why we’re a team.”

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