In photos: LSU is having a ball at the College World Series
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Cade Beloso (left) and Tre' Morgan went to high schools less than 20 miles apart in New Orleans. Photo: Sierra Beaulieu/Courtesy of LSU
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.