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http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080527/SPORTS0202/805270324/1026/SPORTS02 BATON ROUGE — The University of New Orleans is the first in-state school invited to an NCAA Regional hosted by LSU that already has two wins over the Tigers in the same season. LSU and UNO will play should No. 3 seed UNO (42-19) get by No. 2 seed Southern Mississippi (40-20) at 6 p.m. Friday and if No. 1 seed LSU (43-16-1 and a national No. 7 seed) beats No. 4 seed and Southwestern Athletic Conference Tournament champion Texas Southern (16-32) in the opener at 1 p.m. Friday. Such a LSU-UNO pairing would happen at 6 p.m. Saturday. The Privateers defeated LSU 8-6 in Alex Box Stadium on March 26 and 6-5 at Privateer Park in New Orleans on April 16. It took 15 innings, but LSU managed to beat UNO 7-6 on May 13 at Zephyr Field in Metairie in the Wally Pontiff Classic. Shreveporttimes.com 5/27/08

http://www.wmctv.com/global/story.asp?s=8381319 They came up just short in the SEC championship game...but the season is not yet over for the Ole Miss Rebels. The Rebels advance to their sixth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance, as the third seed in the Miami Regional. They'll open with Missouri on Friday. The SEC leads all conferences with nine berths into the NCAA baseball tournament. wcmtv.com 5/27/08

http://www.al.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/sports-14/1211761447136110.xml&storylist=alabamanews HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — The LSU Tigers once seemed a longshot to even make the Southeastern Conference tournament, and were snubbed when the postseason honors came out. They're hard to ignore now. Tournament MVP Blake Dean hit a two-run homer and the Tigers scored the final seven runs to beat Mississippi 8-2 on Sunday, win a school-record 20th game in a row and claim their first SEC tournament title since 2000. "In the middle of the season, we were fighting just to get into this tournament," said Ryan Schimpf, who had a two-run double. "To come out on top was just a tremendous accomplishment." LSU (43-16-1), which took the lead with a five-run fifth, matched Vanderbilt (2007) and South Carolina (2000) for the second-longest winning streak in SEC history. al.com 5/26/08