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Former Acadiana High baseball star and current minor league player Stryker Trahan is in the running for a prestigious award -- the best name in Minor League Baseball!

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This is Big Time.

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LSU outfielder and Lafayette native Mikie Mahtook was named a 2011 first-team All-American yesterday by Baseball America Magazine.

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The Pittsburgh Pirates selected UCLA right-handed pitcher Gerrit Cole, with the first selection of  Major League Baseball's First-Yeal player Draft, on Monday night.

Jenifer Langosch, of mlb.com, reports that LSU outfielder Mikie Mahtook was picked by the Tampa Bay Rays, with the 31st pick of the draft.

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Just because the LSU Tiger baseball team isn't participating in a regional, doesn't mean that head coach Paul Mainieri isn't hard at work. Mainieri has been putting in many hard hours to slightly reconstruct and tweak his program for 2012.

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After losing the first two games of a three game series in heartbreaking fashion, the Tigers of LSU beat the Tigers of Auburn in game 3 on Sunday by the score of 3-2.

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No. 15 LSU (21-8, 3-6 SEC) travels to Fayetteville, Ark., this weekend for a three-game SEC series against Arkansas that begins at 6:30 p.m. CT Friday. Game 2 starts at 7 p.m. Saturday, and first pitch for Game 3 is set for 1 p.m. Sunday.

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Sophomore right-hander Kevin Berry fired 2.2 scoreless relief innings Tuesday night and second baseman JaCoby Jones delivered the go-ahead RBI single in the eighth to lead No. 15 LSU to a 7-5 win over Tulane at Turchin Stadium.

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