In photos: LSU is having a ball at the College World Series

People everywhere are catching LSU baseball fever, after the Tigers' remarkable, fireballing, heart-stopping, hootin'-n-hollerin', Jell-O shot-downing run to the College World Series championship series.

Zoom in: They can thank New Orleans for a lot of this fun. A handful of players from southeast Louisiana have played an outsized role in the Tigers' success.

State of play: LSU and Florida split the first two games of the best-of-three championship series this weekend to set up a winner-take-all game Monday at 6pm.

• To even get here, though, the Tigers had to pull out consecutive upset wins over No. 1 Wake Forest last week.

Here's a look at the players from the New Orleans area who've helped get them here.

Tre' Morgan, a junior first baseman from Brother Martin High School, saved the Tigers' season with an incredible defensive play to cut down a Wake Forest runner at the plate in the eighth inning Thursday. The play kept the game scoreless, and it stayed that way until the 11th-inning heroics of Tommy White.

• Morgan learned to play on a small field in Milne Playground, according to the Advocate.

Will Hellmers, a junior pitcher from Jesuit High School, hasn't pitched in the CWS, but he's been there to fire people up.

Brayden Jobert, a junior outfielder from Slidell, went 3 for 4 in the opening CWS game against Tennessee.

Gavin Dugas, a fifth-year second baseman from Houma, hit the Tigers’ first home run of the CWS.

Cade Beloso, a graduate student from John Curtis Christian School in River Ridge, who smashed a three-run homer to be the hero of the first win-or-go-home game against Wake Forest and another to break a tie in the 11th inning against Florida Saturday.

The bottom line: Are they having any fun yet? Yes, yes they are.

Editor's note: This story was updated with the results of the weekend games.