A timely grand slam from Hunter Wells and a strong pitching performance out of the bullpen from right-hander Landon Tomkins helped Louisiana Tech earn a doubleheader split at FIU Baseball
RUSTON â After leading Louisiana Tech to 20 victories and a Conference USA West Division title, Bulldog Basketball head coach Eric Konkol was voted as the C-USA Gene Bartow Coach of the Year.
LA Tech was picked to finish seventh in the C-USA preseason poll after losing four starters off the 2019-20 team that produced a 22-win season and a second-place finish in the league.
Konkol guided the 2020-21 Bulldogs, meshing a group of seven seniors and three stud underclassmen, to register a 20-6 overall mark and a 12-4 league record. The team clinched their third overall C-USA title (2013-14 and 2014-15) on March 5 and will be the No. 1 West seed in the C-USA Championship.
Cowboys win streak comes to end in 11-0 loss at La. Tech McNeese Baseball (Source: KPLC) By McNeese Sports Information | March 5, 2021 at 10:11 PM CST - Updated March 5 at 10:14 PM
RUSTON – Louisiana Tech scored all of its runs after the fourth inning while two pitchers combined to shutout McNeese in an 11-0 win and snapping the Cowboys’ five-game winning streak.
The Bulldogs (5-3) opened up its new baseball stadium on Friday night in a pregame ribbon cutting ceremony that featured Governor John Bel Edwards. J.C. Love Field at Patterson Stadium suffered extreme damage, as did many other athletic facilities and buildings at Louisiana Tech and the Ruston area after a major tornado in 2019.
RUSTON â The standard of excellence continues at Louisiana Tech as the Bulldogs claimed win No. 20 on the season with a 99-66 victory over Our Lady of the Lake on Wednesday night inside the Thomas Assembly Center on Karl Malone Court.
There was doubt at the beginning of the 2020-21 season that LA Tech (20-6) would even play 20 games. They ended up playing 26 and reached 20 victories for the eighth time in the last nine seasons.
âYou want to play well while having a lot of guys get playing time. Overall, we satisfied a lot of things. Guys got a lot of opportunity to be in different situations. We wanted to stay in some type of game rhythm.