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Nicholls beats UNO, adds Southland tourney championship to regular season title

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Updated May 27, 2023

The Colonels did it in typical fashion, getting timely hits and another dominant effort from their lights-out bullpen.

Nicholls beats UNO, moves one win away from Southland Conference title

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
May 26, 2023

The Colonels received yet another strong pitching performances, containing the Privateers' potent bats early Friday, but the teams will meet again Saturday.

Back-to-back homers lifted UNO to a win in its first game at the Southland tournament

Staff report
May 24, 2023

LAKE CHARLES — UNO hit back-to-back home runs in a four-run second inning and held down Lamar the rest of the way, opening the Southland Conference tournament with a 4-1 victory in a game that…

UNO, Nicholls have plenty in their favor entering balanced Southland Conference baseball tourney

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
May 23, 2023

The Privateers are the only team with three consecutive conference series wins, and the Colonels won the league outright.

UNO run-rules Nicholls 14-4 in regular-season finale, avoids Southland tourney play-in game

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Updated May 20, 2023

The Privateers accomplished what they needed to in taking the series from the Colonels, who clinched their first Southland regular season championship on Friday night.

Nicholls beats UNO to clinch its first outright Southland Conference championship

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Updated May 19, 2023

It is the first regular season title for the Colonels since joining the league in 1992.

Nicholls looking for first Southland title; UNO trying to avoid play-in game in season finale

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
May 17, 2023

The winner of this weekend's pivotal series at Maestri Field will be in a celebratory mood.

UNO pitcher Jacob Mead enjoying every moment of terrific year

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Updated May 12, 2023

Mead, a fifth-year senior who sat out 2020 and 2021 for different reasons, has an 0.47 ERA and is the current Southland Conference pitcher of the week after earning three saves in a four-game span.

Tulane salvages finale of Pelican Cup, beats UNO 8-6 at Maestri Field

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Apr 18, 2023

Brady Marget and Jake LaPrairie hit two-run homers in the first inning and the Wave limited the Privateers to one run in the final seven after falling behind 5-4.

UNO can sweep its season series against Tulane this week: 'We got that trophy back'

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Apr 17, 2023

The struggling Green Wave, which lost two close games to Wichita State over the weekend after taking the opener, is just looking for any win.

UNO hires Tuskegee's Trelanne Powell as new women's basketball coach

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Updated Apr 11, 2023

Powell's task is to turn around a program that has finished with one winning record in the past 22 years.

Wet weather or not, the Crescent City Classic expects 14,000 runners to join the party

BY DARRELL WILLIAMS | Contributing writer
Apr 7, 2023

In Ben True, last year's 10-kilometer Crescent City Classic had its first American winner in an all-comers race since 1984. Reid Buchanan was second, marking the CCC's first American one-two f…

The Crescent City Classic is ready to go, and set up 'for locals to get the claim to fame'

BY DARRELL WILLIAMS | Contributing writer
Apr 6, 2023

With UNO's distance-running teams having ascended to the top of the Southland Conference, coach Brock Moreaux decided to get back into road racing, which he'd done before helping build the program.

UNO clinches Pelican Cup with 16-4 rout of Tulane at Turchin Stadium

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Mar 29, 2023

After trailing 4-2 early, the Privateers batted around three times in the span of four innings.

Photos: UNO beats Tulane 16-4 to win Pelican Cup at Tulane

BY SCOTT THRELKELD | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Mar 29, 2023

UNO beats Tulane 16-4 to win the Pelican Cup Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at Tulane.

SEC vs. Sun Belt in opening round of NCAA tourney: Best Bets for Thursday (March 16)

BY JIM DERRY | Sports betting writer
Mar 16, 2023

Teams playing up in class might find the going tough in opening round of March Madness

NCAA Tournament: First-round schedule, TV info, times, betting lines

BY JIM DERRY | Sports betting writer
Mar 16, 2023

All the March Madness information one could need for the first two days of the tourney

A college umpire has been suspended for bad calls to end a UNO baseball game

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mar 13, 2023

NEW ORLEANS — A college baseball umpire was suspended indefinitely by the Southland Conference on Saturday in connection with a pair of late called strikes to end a game between Mississippi Va…

UNO drops Southeastern 82-78 at Southland tournament; quarterfinals are up next

Staff report
Mar 6, 2023

LAKE CHARLES — UNO took down No. 3-seeded Southeastern in a 82-78 Monday night thriller to advance to the Southland Conference tournament quarterfinals.

Sharp shooting has UNO believing it can make a run in Southland Conference tourney

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Updated Mar 4, 2023

The seventh-seeded Privateers will have to win four games in four days to win it, while third-seeded Southeastern Louisiana and fourth-seeded Nicholls State have byes in the first round.

UNO baseball team beats Tulane 6-5 on ninth-inning single at Turchin Stadium

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Updated Mar 1, 2023

The Privateers, who led most of the way, responded to a tying home run by Jackson Linn in the bottom of the eighth.

Back from the dead: UNO beats Nicholls behind 26 points from Jordan Johnson

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Feb 24, 2023

The Privateers have won three in a row after losing nine straight and passed three teams into seventh place in the Southland Conference on Senior Night.

UNO baseball hopes to mix experienced starting pitching with strong offense

BY DARRELL WILLIAMS | Contributing writer
Updated Feb 16, 2023

UNO finished the 2022 baseball season with a 30-23 record, the Privateers' best showing under coach Blake Dean.

Southland-leading Southeastern beats UNO in men's hoops for second time in three days

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Updated Jan 28, 2023

The Lions closed the first half with a 36-14 run and had an 18-0 spurt in the second half on the way to an easy victory on Saturday at Lakefront Arena.

UNO men's hoops loses second home game in three days, falling 88-65 to Northwestern State

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Jan 21, 2023

The Privateers could not stop guard Demarcus Sharp in the first half and had trouble slowing down almost anyone after the break.

UNO men's hoops looking to clean up mistakes, contend in wide open Southland Conference

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Updated Jan 20, 2023

The Privateers, who suffered a painful loss to Texas A&M-Commerce on Thursday after leading by double digits early, remain a game out of first place entering Saturday's game with Northwest…

LSU, UNO cancel their women's basketball game Sunday, citing 'health and safety protocols'

Staff report
Dec 9, 2022

LSU and UNO canceled Sunday's women’s basketball game because of "health and safety protocols within the UNO program," both schools announced Friday.

UNO men's hoops looking to contend in Southland despite loss of outstanding guard tandem

BY GUERRY SMITH | Contributing writer
Nov 6, 2022

Coach Mark Slessinger's recent history of success suggests he will find a winning formula without first-team All-Southland picks Derek St. Hilaire and Troy Green.

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