BATON ROUGE, La. \u2013 Florida centerfielder Hayden Yost hit three homers and drove in five runs Saturday to lead the ninth-ranked Gators to a 15-11 win over LSU in Alex Box Stadium, Skip Bertman Field.<\/p>\n
Florida improved to 37-18 overall, 18-12 in the SEC, while LSU dropped to 29-27 overall and 9-21 in conference play.<\/p>\n
The Tigers return to action at approximately 8 p.m. CT Tuesday when they face Oklahoma in the first round of the SEC Tournament at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Ala.<\/p>\n
LSU is the No. 14 seed, and Oklahoma is the No. 11 seed in the single-elimination tournament. Tuesday\u2019s game will be broadcast on the LSU Sports Radio Network and televised on the SEC Network.<\/p>\n
The winner of Tuesday\u2019s LSU-Oklahoma game advances to play sixth-seeded Auburn on Wednesday at approximately 8 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur focus turns now to a game Tuesday night against a good Oklahoma team,\u201d said LSU coach Jay Johnson. \u201cWe need to play well in the game; we\u2019ll put our best foot forward, we\u2019re not going to save any pitchers. Guys are going to have to be ready to pitch on back-to-back days if we feel like they can help us win.<\/p>\n
\u201cA positive from this weekend was that everyone on the pitching staff touched the mound, and it gave us a chance to see where we\u2019re at going into the coming week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yost was 4-for-5 at the plate on Saturday with three homers and five RBI. Florida second baseman Cade Kurland hit two solo homers, as the Gators collected 18 hits in the contest.<\/p>\n
LSU produced 16 hits on the day, including a 3-for-6 performance by catcher Cade Arrambide, who homered twice and collected four RBI.<\/p>\n
Shortstop Steven Milam homered and drove in four runs for the Tigers, and designated hitter Mason Braun was 3-for-4 with a double and two RBI.<\/p>\n
Florida reliever Schuyler Sandford (2-0) was credited with the win, as he worked 1.1 scoreless innings with no hits, two walks and one strikeout.<\/p>\n
Cooper Walls earned his first save of the season for the Gators, working the final 1.1 innings and allowing three runs on six hits with no walks and two strikeouts.<\/p>\n
LSU reliever Grant Fontenot (0-2) was charged with the loss after allowing two runs on three hits in 2.1 innings with no walks and three strikeouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE, La. \u2013 Florida centerfielder Hayden Yost hit three homers and drove in five runs Saturday to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3816,28,30,29,8941,8942,8943,5734,8940,8939,4657],"class_list":["post-273900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-baseball","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-geaux-tigers","tag-homepage-feature-headline","tag-latest-news","tag-louisiana","tag-louisiana-state-university","tag-lsu","tag-lsu-tigers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}