Louisiana Tech is coming off its busiest weekend of the athletic year so far.

Hoops doubleheader in the STAC Saturday. The Lady Techsters hit a program-record 14 three-point shots to beat Southern Miss by 32, a team that had beaten them in Hattiesburg by 15 earlier in the season. The Dunkin’ Dogs lost to Middle Tennessee, the best team I’ve seen in the STAC in the past several years, including Tech’s regular season Conference USA champs four-ish years ago. The Blue Raiders were 21-22 from the free throw line and Tech couldn’t keep Nick King, a 6-7 small forward and senior graduate transfer, from going to his left and scoring 25 in 33 minutes. I guess other teams are having the same problem: he’s averaging 22 a game. That is 21st or so in the nation. Watch for them in the postseason. (We don’t have to tell Michigan State that…)

Softball was in the Purple and Gold Invitational in Baton Rouge; the Lady Techsters went 3-2 in five games and lost 2-1 in 9-innings to 7th-ranked LSU.

The Conference USA Indoor Track and Field Championships in Birmingham.

Tennis, after getting rained out of a chance to play its home opener, finally got to play Sunday. Lady Techsters made it count beat Texas State, 4-1.

And Louisiana Tech baseball opened up its season with four games Friday-Sunday against Pepperdine. In Malibu. California. Which is not the worst place in the world for a team to open up its baseball season.

Tech lost 2-1, won 3-2, lost 1-0, won 9-3. The Bulldogs open up their home schedule Tuesday night at 6 against McNeese State. Come and you could very well be part of a record-breaking Opening Night crowd at J.C. Love Field at Pat Patterson Park.

What might be discouraging about those Opening Weekend numbers is that Tech scored just 4 runs in the first three games, (Pepperdine scored 5). But most encouraging is that Tech allowed just 8 runs in four games. AND, when it came to the fourth game in three days (Saturday was a double bubble/doubleheader), Tech had enough pitching to surrender just 3 runs.

Maybe Pepperdine is not the 1927 Yankees, but you will take allowing just 8 runs in four games all season long.

-30-