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Wayne Newhauser, professor and director of medical and health physics, is partnering with architecture assistant professor Jason Crow to incorporate 3-D printing into cancer treatment programs. Newhauser said he decided to pursue the technology for medical research after Trey and Kim Bowman of the Bella Bowman Foundation approached him. The Bowmans’ 7-year-old daughter, Bella, died in 2011 from necrosis, or rapid cell death, following radiation therapy for a brain tumor. The Bowmans funded two grants for Newhauser and student researchers to study the rare side effect. It became clear during the necrosis research that more detailed phantoms — models used for imaging and radiation testing — were needed, Newhauser said. He turned to 3-D printing. “I think that’s really our role as scientists and engineers: to find ways to bring these new tools into the clinic and make them available and ready for our
see PHANTOMS, page 7
As Louisiana steps into the spotlight as a premier Hollywood filming location, the University prepares for its close-up by implementing a bachelor of arts in screen arts degree program. Per student demand, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Music and Dramatic Arts are working together to create the program. “Screen arts” would marry the School of Theatre’s film and television concentrations with CHSS’ film and media arts concentration. CHSS dean Stacia Haynie said the idea for the degree program evolved from conversations she and CMDA dean Todd Queen started having within the first six weeks of their dean appointments in July 2014. “We decided we wanted to collaborate and try to leverage the strengths of both programs,” Haynie said.
see SCREEN ARTS, page 2
TECHNOLOGY
International student launches mobile delivery app in India BY TRENT PARKER @TrentParker_TDR Inspired partially by the model of Uber, marketing junior Tirth Shah and Live-O-Store IT head Varun Parikh created a mobile app to match businesses and customers with part-time delivery workers. When Shah was injured in a car accident before coming to the University, fulfilling basic needs such as buying groceries became difficult. With limited mobility during recovery, he had to rely on delivery services to bring goods to his home. Orders often did not arrive the same day and were expensive.
“I had a lot of problems getting around places … and people charged ridiculous amounts [for delivery],” Shah said. “I didn’t want any other student to ever have a problem like that.” Shah sought a way to make home delivery services faster and cheaper. Through studying at the University, he has gained helpful knowledge on marketing from programs and guest speakers held by the business fraternity Alpha Kappa Psi and classes with Department of Marketing senior instructor Thomas Karam. When a user of the Live-OStore app places an order to a
local business, the delivery workers are alerted and can choose to accept the job and drive the goods to their destination. Customers are charged a 5 percent fee for the service. Restaurant table reservations and daily delivery subscription services are also being offered. “We don’t charge [businesses] at all on one condition: that every month they donate a certain amount of their goods and services to people in need,” Shah said. “As long as they keep doing that, we will deliver for free.” Shah runs Live-O-Store remotely while at the University via Skype and email with
employees and business partners in India. The Live-O-Store’s delivery services are being tested in Shah’s hometown of Ahmedabad in the western Indian state of Gujarat. According to the business’ website, in the two weeks since the app’s launch about 250 businesses have joined, offering over 22,000 products and covering almost the entire city, which is the one of the most populous in India. India has the second largest number of Internet users after China, with online access
see DELIVERY APP, page 7
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Students promote animal rights, fight cruelty BY TRENT PARKER @TrentParker_TDR Students dedicated to combating cruelty toward animals have formed a new organization, Animal Advocates, to promote animal rights through volunteer opportunities and providing education to the public on how they can reduce animal suffering. “Animal rights, animal welfare is something that people intuitively agree with, at least as far as pets are concerned,” said mathematics senior and club member Jesse Clifton. “Everyone sympathizes with animals and thinks that they ought to be protected. Our club is about expanding that innate respect for animals everywhere, not just the ones in our immediate surroundings.” The focus of the organization is broad, Clifton said, ranging from educating the public on issues in animal husbandry conditions to veganism to the treatment of animals at places like SeaWorld. Animal Advocates plans to host volunteer opportunities, guest speakers and socials, such
SCREEN ARTS, from page 1 Their conversations sparked a series of meetings with potential faculty members who could contribute to the degree, who then engaged in a year of meetings to discuss their visions for the program. Now, the faculty committee fleshes out the dreams Haynie
as vegan potlucks throughout the semester, natural resource ecology and management sophomore and club president Sarah Buckley said. The first of these was assisting Cat Haven in cleaning its their animal shelter on Saturday. “You don’t have to be a vegan to be in the club,” Buckley said. “The official diet stance of the club is reducetarianism, which is making the effort to reduce the number of animal products in your daily meals.” One of the easiest ways to do this is to cease consumption of chicken, Clifton said. The small size of chickens often means multiple animals are killed to produce the same amount of meat that could be obtained from a single cow or pig. “If you just replace those chickens with larger animals, you’re contributing to the suffering of fewer animals,” Clifton said. The increasing availability of vegetarian and vegan substitutes for animal-derived foods makes transitioning to a diet that causes less animal suffering easier, Buckley said.
Medical research on animals is a complicated topic among animal rights advocates since the results sometimes save human lives, Clifton said. These issues also arise when talking about hunting to eliminate invasive species and cull unbalanced wildlife populations humanely, Buckley said. Other areas such as cosmetics and fashion are easier decisions. Choosing to purchase cosmetic products not tested on animals and substituting faux fur and leather for the real products are other ways to reduce animal suffering, Buckley and Clifton said. “We don’t realize how many products we use are tested on animals and do contribute to animal suffering,” Buckley said. “Something that we advocate for is critical thinking about what it is that you are using and what has gone into that product.” A 2014 study by the Animal Legal Defense Fund measuring the legal protections of animals by state placed Louisiana in the middle at 21, with Illinois ranked best in animal cruelty reduction and Kentucky the worst.
and Queen concocted nearly two years ago. Haynie said they see the degree as one in which multiple colleges will find a vested interest in meeting the student demand. CHSS’ film and media arts program has grown from “a few dozen” students to around 85, she said.
She said she expects screen arts to serve as a broad umbrella for a myriad of concentrations. For example, Haynie said they are looking into screenwriting, special effects or financing concentrations through different colleges, including the Manship School of Mass Communication, the College of Art and Design, the
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Members of Animal Advocates and the Plant-Based Society enjoy a vegan potluck. The results were formulated based on criteria including strictness of penalties for animal cruelty, reporting laws, higher standards of care and restrictions on pet ownership by convicted abusers. The FBI also began tracking animal cruelty cases and including them in their national crime database in January — a move Animal Advocates applauded. “Just thinking more clearly about how we use animals and the suffering we inflict on them, and whether it’s really worth it for us, is something that we want to encourage,” Clifton said.
College of Engineering and the E.J. Ourso College of Business, in addition to CHSS and CMDA. “We’ve got faculty across six colleges, all of whom potentially could have either a vested interest or actually create a degree path for students,” she said. With a concentration in film and television, theatre junior Cole Barranco said he has noticed a “feud” between CMDA’s film and television and CHSS’ film and media arts programs, which compete for students. He said he hopes the new screen arts degree will mend fences between the two. Despite his major, Barranco said he does not care for theatre, and joined the degree program solely for its film focus. He said he wished a degree like screen arts would have existed when he declared his major. “I’ve taken all my film classes, so I’m stuck taking all these theatre courses that I have no interest in. It seems like there’s too many right now,” Barranco said. Though envisioned years ago, Haynie said she, Queen and their faculties will wait patiently for the plan to bear fruit. Since this is the University’s first time trying to create a screen arts degree, she said they want to take their time crafting the academic infrastructure. For Louisiana to retain a successful film industry, Haynie said the University needs to build intellectual capital as the state’s flagship institution. She said she wants students to have the opportunity to remain in the state and pursue screen arts as a profession. “The vision was to build a degree that could support an infrastructure that was indigenous, and not something that was imported or something that was temporaneous,” Haynie said.
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A Whole New World BY JOSHUA THORNTON | @JOSHT_TDR
Leaving behind family and friends for school can be a daunting task. It’s an obstacle that LSU redshirt freshman offensive lineman Chidi Okeke is hurdling now. Not only did the 6-foot-6, 311-pound offensive tackle leave home, he ventured off to an entirely different country. Okeke moved from Nigeria to the United States in 2013 and attended high school in Palm Bay, Florida. He later moved to Conyers, Georgia, to be closer to his guardian and play basketball at Faith Baptist High School. Almost any out-of-state college student can relate to missing his or her family, especially when they’re miles and miles away. Okeke became homesick when he arrived to the United States. Adjusting to a new lifestyle in America seemed staggering, particularly when he first arrived.
“My first month in America, I wanted to go back,” Okeke said. “Coming here as a kid was so overwhelming for me. As time goes on, I try to adapt. Right now I’m okay. I’m grown now.” The now-20-year-old offensive tackle talked to his parents nearly “three times” a week via Skype and phone calls. Okeke originally moved west from Anambra, Nigeria, to develop a prospective basketball career overseas. But, after watching a high school football practice one day, his high school coach Mike Tunsil convinced him to try out for the football team. Growing up, Okeke played “football” in his hometown, better known in the
see OKEKE, page 8
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LSU freshman offensive lineman, Chidi Okeke (68) practices in the afternoon on Tuesday at Charles McClendon Practice Facility.
GYMNASTICS
Tigers overcome beam struggles
BY MARKUS HÜFNER @Hufner_TDR In a season filled with perfect 10s, exciting freshmen and big upsets, the No. 3 LSU gymnastics team nearly eliminated its weakest event: beam. However, the eradication wasn’t off to a promising start. After posting a beam score of 49.250 in the season-opening upset against then-No.1 Oklahoma on Jan. 9, their first away meet against then-No. 21 North Carolina State turned out to be a rough weekend on the beam, contributing to a season-low team score of 195.825. “The girls on that event and the pressure of people trying to compete to get in the lineup has put a little bit of an edge on all the events,” said LSU coach D-D Breaux. While the team’s beam scores didn’t slip under a 49.175 at home, the rough road continued at the Metroplex Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Jan. 30, where their score of 48.600 furthered them away from the win. LSU went on to enter its main Southeastern Conference stretch with a No. 18 national ranking on the event, and now in the middle of postseason, they rank third. “In the beginning, we were letting the pressure get the best of us and expected ourselves to be perfect every time we went up,” said junior all-arounder Sydney Ewing. “[Assistant coach] Jay [Clark] always says ‘pressure is what you feel when you don’t know what you’re doing,’ so that’s just something we’ve really taken to heart. When we get to a meet, it’s just like any other routine now.” In addition to verbal
see BEAM, page 8
BASEBALL
Despite lack of runs, Tigers optimistic about offense’s future BY JAMES BEWERS @JamesBewers_TDR Editor’s Note: All stats used in this story are based on LSU’s games prior to Wednesday night’s matchup against Tulane. The LSU baseball team’s offense isn’t as bad as it seems, players and coaches say. Of course, the numbers look far from stellar — just five runs from Tiger hitters in the series loss to Texas A&M, including 27 left on base and a 3-for-29 clip
with runners in scoring position. Three runs or less in five of six Southeastern Conference games isn’t “satisfactory,” LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. But Mainieri and hitting coach Andy Cannizaro will attest, the offense isn’t inept. It out-hit the Aggies, the conference’s leading offense, in two of the three games and averages almost nine hits per game in SEC matchups. “If you’re talking about a team that can’t hit, then you’re talking about never having the
opportunity, and that’s suffocating for a team,” Cannizaro said. “But, when you’re still getting nine hits a game over the first two SEC weekends — against really good pitching staffs — then you’re just talking about lack of timely hitting, and that stuff is going to come.” With all games accounted for, the Tigers rank in the middle of the league in hits, batting average and total bases. LSU has also struck out the least amount of any conference foe, and when it does
get on base, it’s tied for first in most stolen bases. The problem is clutch hitting, especially when extra base hits have been scarce in the first six league matchups. Too often have the Tigers fallen into a pattern of sandwiching singles around outs, Mainieri said. “So, you’ve had three or four decent at-bats,” Mainieri said. “But all you’ve got is runners on first and second and two outs. And now you need another hit to try score one run. When you don’t
get that hit, that’s what everybody wants to emphasize.” Not only is LSU struggling with timely hits and extra base hits, it is also sputtering to move runners from second to third base. In the two losses to Texas A&M, the Tigers were a combined 9-of-35 on advancement opportunities. Cannizaro doesn’t believe anybody truly has the reason some hitters are more clutch than
see OFFENSE, page 8
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Raking in a Return
Unless you spent it all on Jell-O shots and sunscreen last week, many of you will be spending your tax refund soon. Here are some wise ways to spend your refund that don’t involve Tigerland. JAY TALKING JAY CRANFORD @hjcranford
Be charitable If you are fortunate enough to not be dependent on your tax refund, consider donating it to those who aren’t as fortunate. It’s been scientifically proven that being charitable will make you happier.
Save for graduate school/new job
Put it toward large purchases
Whether you’re looking forward to it or not, graduation is around the corner. If you know your plans after May 13, then save this money for new clothes for your job or for books and supplies for graduate school.
Are you expecting to make a large purchase in a few years? Maybe you will need a new car when you move out of the dorm, or you’ve got an eye on a house back home after graduation. Start a savings account now. Future-you will appreciate it.
Save it
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Travel
Let’s start with the most obvious — save the money for when you need it. This sounds easy enough to most people, but beware. If you put the money into your everyday checking account, I bet you won’t end up saving it. Whether it’s an emergency account or employer sponsored savings, put it where you can’t touch it.
Life isn’t always about being safe and prepared. Consider sending half of your refund on one of the above tips and the other half on yourself. Be careful though. A $200 refund is not an excuse to buy a $600 iPad.
Did the last seven tips give you anxiety? Taking a vacation and travelling — whether it be for a week or a semester abroad — can be a big mental relief. Take some time to get away from it all and relax for a minute.
Pay off debt
Renters insurance
Did you rack up credit card debt over the past year? What about borrowing cash from friends or family? Now is a great time to settle those accounts.
Many of us, myself included, have probably never thought about getting insurance. Renters insurance is like the insurance your parents pay on a house to protect it from theft and damage. However, renters insurance is much cheaper. Expect around $14 per month in Louisiana. Buying peace of mind with your refund sounds like a great idea to me.
Upgrade for school
Invest it
Is that laptop from freshman year starting to break down? Buying something to help you do better in school — like a new computer or a CPA study book — can go a long way.
Feel like being one of those boring adult types? Then invest your refund in a mutual fund or stocks and let it grow.
Jay is a 21-year-old finance senior from St. Simons Island, Georgia.
Recent Brussels attacks prove tighter border control is necessary LOGIC DICTATES, CAPTAIN GARRETT MARCEL @Gret419 The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks in Paris, Brussels, Istanbul and California. The United States should keep most foreign-born people out so we can prevent future attacks. Europe is feeling the brunt of the attacks because of the refugee crisis. How long do we have to wait before the Islamic State group sneaks enough operatives into the United States for a
large attack? One of the few methods of preventing attacks from foreign combatants is secure checks before accessing the country. This is an issue because Islamic State agents may fake their backgrounds or enter the country illegally. Unfortunately, too many people in this country want to let anyone inside. People who cross into the country and are not citizens have no constitutional rights. Let’s use that to our advantage. With the number of people crossing into the United States through the Mexican border, I’m
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surprised we haven’t had more attacks. The borders need to be secured now, and those living in the country illegally need to be dealt with to ensure no Islamic State infiltrators are already in the country. The National Security Agency should spend less time looking for potential threats on the phones of U.S. citizens and, instead, serve their purpose better by keeping a constant track on where aliens go and who they contact. The NSA should know pretty quickly who is a threat for the nation and how they operate. The simplest option would be
to prevent any movement to the United States by anyone from the Middle East not in higher education or with advanced degrees. I doubt the guy with a medical degree or the student majoring in physics wants to waste their time terrorizing citizens. Whoever is chosen as the next commander in chief will decide how prone we are to attacks like those in Paris and Brussels. Weak leftist ideologies on foreign policy have been useless to combat the threat of the Islamic State in Europe. We must put pressure on our supposed “Middle Eastern
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allies” to combat the Islamic State threat by any means necessary. We should not have to sacrifice our soldiers and money on a problem caused by radical Islam and those who fail to condemn it completely. The next president must be willing to protect the rights of U.S. citizens while using the powers of the government to seek out infiltrators. Another eight years of a weak president will no doubt lead to another 9/11 or worse.
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Quote of the Day “Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.”
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PHANTOMS, from page 1 physicians to use in treating patients,” Newhauser said. The research collaboration between Newhauser and Crow began last fall. Crow, with three student researchers, has been spearheading the production of the phantoms using a BigRep large scale 3-D printer. A phantom is produced when a full body scan is uploaded into the 3-D printer, adjustments to the model are made to correct for computational errors and then the model is printed using a polylactic acid filament. The model is then refined, structural support materials are removed and the model is sanded.” Crow and his student researchers are beginning to test the models for water tightness. During radiation and imaging evaluations, the models will be filled with water because it mimics the characteristics of soft tissue, Newhauser said. An expert in multiple manufacturing technologies, Crow said he is testing different production methods to determine the most effective process for producing the models efficiently. Combining 3-D printing with milling to produce a smooth, customized piece is a popular option, he said. Current models are being printed at a fraction of full size, but production could be scaled to
full size within the coming weeks, Crow said. He estimated a fullscale model would take nearly two weeks to complete from scan to finished product. The personalization capable through 3-D printing is an improvement on the generic phantoms currently used, he said. “Bodies are different, so the mass of the body, the way the flesh is distributed, all this kind of stuff changes the way the radiation penetrates the body,” Crow said. Current radiation therapy is highly regulated and more than sufficient for most patients, Newhauser said. But in special cases, doctors must go beyond standard treatment methods to assess a patient’s needs. “Those standard phantoms, that one-size-fits-all approach, really doesn’t work very well for cases where the anatomy is very different or changing,” Newhauser said. “There’s a relatively small but important number of patients for whom having personalized phantoms available would help us to research how to do better treatments.” The personalized models will allow researchers to determine the distribution of radiation across the patient’s entire body and better target beam placement for radiation treatments. This could help researchers reduce leakage radiation and prevent excess radiation
next two years.” Shah said. Most of the participating businesses are restaurants, cafes and grocery stores, Shah said. LiveO-Store plans to increase to 3,500 businesses, offering a wider variety of products for delivery in
major cities by 2018, and expand internationally in the process.
from damaging healthy cells, like in Bella’s case. Aside from the personalization factor, 3-D printing is economical. Newhauser said he can easily see 3-D printing being incorporated into common use as the technology is fine tuned and more widely disseminated. In addition to phantoms, 3-D printing can produce hardware for immobilizing patients during treatment and beam-modifying devices to personalize the radiation beam’s properties for particular treatments. Moving forward, Newhauser said he hopes the research team can finalize a prototype of its research method, including the 3-D printing, scan methods and necessary algorithms. In five to six years, he wants to prove its feasibility and disseminate it to healthcare providers. He said he has already begun discussing commercialization with two medial equipment manufacturers.
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402 million in December 2015 to 462 million by June 2016. By that point, Live-O-Store will have expanded to two more cities in Gujarat. “We are picking the top twenty cities in India as our target for the
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page 8 OKEKE, from page 3 United States as soccer. According to a 2013 market researcher poll by Repucom, 83 percent of Nigerians report soccer interest and 65 percent play the sport. Playing soccer helped Okeke, the youngest of nine siblings, better his footwork and develop the quickness needed to be an offensive lineman. When the Nigeria native experienced North American football for the first time, he wasn’t sure he could play. “When I was back home, I watched football,” Okeke said. “I kept thinking it was too rough. I didn’t believe I could come over and play football.” After attending a few camps and practices, Okeke developed a passion for football. His love for the game helped him garner a four-star prospect rating out of high school, according to 247sports.com. With only two years of American football under his belt, Okeke drew offers from programs including Florida State, Auburn and Alabama. But after much thought, he chose LSU because his “spirit” told him it’s where he should be. Because of his inexperience with the sport, LSU coach Les Miles decided to redshirt him for his freshman season. Okeke said he is still learning. By the way Miles talks about Okeke, he doesn’t sound like someone who just started strapping up pads a mere two years ago. “[Okeke] continues to make plays,” Miles said. “He’s quick footed. He comes off the football in a real rapid rate. I’m really pretty excited about him. I don’t know if he’ll play a lot of football early next year, but he’ll play
a lot of football.” Some would think adjusting to English would be the toughest obstacle for Okeke, but it wasn’t. In his native country of Nigeria, English is his official language. The most difficult thing for him to get used to was direct eye contact, he said with a smile. Where Okeke is from, it is a sign of respect to not look an elder in the eye while they’re talking — the opposite being true in America surprised him. “My teacher would ask me to look her in the eye,” Okeke said, laughing. “Back home it’s disrespectful. I was trying to adjust when I came here. Everybody was like look at me in the eye. I don’t understand.” Finding the right food to eat hasn’t been an issue for him either. Even though he grew up more than 6,000 miles away from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Okeke said he enjoys most of the local cuisine. But from time to time, he will take a trip to an African food store to whip up a few home-cooked meals. His long journey has ended in battling for a position to protect his quarterback’s blind side. With the departure of former LSU offensive tackle Jerald Hawkins, the Tigers have a void to fill and a spot Okeke would like to be in, he said. Okeke said he wants to work hard this spring, so he can translate that success into a starting gig in the fall when LSU opens its season against Wisconsin on Sept. 3. “I have a goal to work hard,” Okeke said. “The spot is empty right now, [but] that’s my goal, to play during the season. I’m working towards it everyday, trying to be better.”
BEAM, from page 3 coaching, Breaux credits the team’s consistent training pattern for the spark in consistency. “Super-sets,” where a routine counts as two practice runs if perfectly executed, added a motivational mind game to beam practices during the offseason. As the regular season came to a close, Breaux put even more emphasis on the pressure aspects that caused some struggle to the team in the early stages. “Rather than ‘super-sets’ it’s more of three routines in a row or making a small group of us all hit in a row,” Ewing said. “Just to put that pressure on each other and ourselves, that other girls are depending on you even in
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LSU sophmore infielder Greg Deichmann (7) runs to first base during LSU’s 7-5 victory against the University of Alabama on March 20.
Wednesday, March 30, 2016 practice.” The result of the season’s process excelled in Gainesville versus then-No. 2 Florida on Feb. 26. After trailing by .075 going into the fourth rotation, Ewing and junior all-arounder Ashleigh Gnat posted new season high scores, with freshman allarounder Sarah Finnegan earning a 9.925 for the second time to complete the upset 197.900197.875. Finnegan, who is currently tied for fourth in the nation, averages a score of 9.915 on the event, and went on to post two consecutive 9.900s in the following meets and tied her season high again in the SEC Championship on March 19. “She doesn’t ever seem nervous or bites her nails,” Gnat
said. “She’s very level headed and mellow. As an upperclassman, I can appreciate that. I feel confident about her going and she feels confident about me going and that’s what the whole beam lineup and every lineup really is about.” The Tigers have counted 13 individual beam titles this season, while scoring a total of seven career highs from seven different gymnasts with all but one being higher than 9.825. “We got people still fighting to get in the lineup and I think it’s just consistency in training,” Breaux said. “[Sophomore all-arounder] Erin Macadaeg is a great leadoff on that event and Ashleigh Gnat is a great anchor. We got some super performances sandwiched in.”
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before they can start launch balls over the fence at an early age.” Mainieri has even made moves to assure there are better and more powerful bats in the lineup, moving sophomore Greg Deichmann back to third base for the last five games, a position he played in the fall. Junior powerhitters Bryce Adams and Jordan Romero also made starts against Tulane. Still, even with some ugly stats, Deichmann said the offense is keeping its eyes fixated on the future of conference play. “You try not to focus on the numbers,” he said. “But when you are only putting up five runs through three games and we’re used to putting up close to 10 runs a game, it can get frustrating. We leave those games in the past, and we’re looking forward to the next one.”
others, but time will help, he said. “I think there’s times when guys will expand the zone a little bit with runners in scoring position because maybe they want to get the job too much,” Cannizaro said. “So, they’ll get a little antsy. But I think it just goes back to, the more times they’re in those situations, they’ll calm down, they’ll revert back to their normal, day-to-day approach and they’ll have success.” As far as extra base hits, in which a veteran LSU team excelled in Cannizaro’s first year, that comes with developing power, and Cannizaro said that’s not something that usually comes naturally to young players. “The power is always the last thing that comes with young hitters,” he said. “Guys kinda gotta figure out how to hit first
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