Shreveport Local Sports

Wearing a bandage on what LSU coach Les Miles said was a broken left hand, wide receiver Terrance Toliver apologized to his teammates, coaches, family and fans for his role in a fight at Reggie's Bar early Sunday.

With a rocking and rolling Dock packed to the rafters, the LSUS Pilots claimed yet another crown that seems to have permanently moved to southern Youree Drive.

KATY, Texas — A 19-2 run over a nearly five-minute span opened up a seven-point Northwestern State lead as the seventh-seed Lady Demons dropped No. 2-seed Stephen F. Austin 96-82 Tuesday in the first round of the Southland Conference women's basketball tournament.

Lady Techsters coach Teresa Weatherspoon isn't crying about her team's current elongated road trip and she certainly isn't allowing her team to use it as an excuse.

LAFAYETTE —The fouls were beginning to mount .

LAFAYETTE — Sure, his Carroll Bulldogs had just completed a three-game sweep over crosstown rival Richwood, which also happens to the defending Class 3A state champions.

Southwestern Athletic Conference basketball teams have spent more than two months trying to become one of eight teams in the conference tournament. Those eight teams in turn will try to be the one — the one that goes to the NCAA Tournament.

Evangel boys basketball coach Reni Mason is a straight shooter. The second-year Eagles mentor knows his style of play often isn't conducive to the ESPN generation. But his 2009-10 squad quickly found a key — trust. "We never really had a coach that was as good as him, that put in plays and put in the time he put in with us," senior forward Devin George, Evangel's leading scorer at 17 points per game, said. "We just trusted his process and it's been successful for us."

Defending national champion LSU would have brought a 12-game winning streak to Shreveport for the first game of the Fair Grounds Field College Baseball Series game against Northwestern State, which owns a nine-game win streak of its own.

There's only one way to describe how the Southern women basketball team's season went last year — injuries and plenty of them.