Mistakes too much for Tigers to overcome as they fall to Air Force 6-5 LSU shortstop Zach Arnold (2) (Source: LSU Baseball) By Spencer Chrisman | February 21, 2021 at 11:37 AM CST - Updated February 22 at 4:31 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The No. 7 ranked LSU Tigers (1-1) couldnât overcome mistakes in their 6-5 loss to the Air Force Eagles (1-1) on Sunday Feb. 21.
The Tigers committed three errors in the game all by starting third baseman Will Hellmers who was replaced by Jordan Thompson in the seventh inning.
Those three errors led to three unearned runs by the Tigers.
LSU did take a brief 4-3 lead in the bottom of the eighth inning on a two-run single from shortstop Zach Arnold who came into replace an injured Giovanni DiGiacomo in the top of the sixth inning. DiGiacomo was replaced at centerfield by Drew Bianco who started the game at shortstop.
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