How to Watch: LSU Baseball vs. Little Rock on Monday night

If LSU Baseball hopes to return to Omaha, Monday night’s game will mean sending the NCAA Baseball postseason’s current cinderella team home from the ball.

Little Rock, a program that fell short of 20 regular season wins, has won three straight games in the NCAA’s Baton Rouge Regional.

That includes Sunday night’s head-turning 10-4 win over LSU in Alex Box Stadium after the Tigers had held both Little Rock and Dallas Baptist scoreless in games one and two of the regional.

Now, LSU will have to beat Little Rock to advance – which would mean hosting West Virginia in Baton Rouge for the NCAA Super Regional round next weekend. WVU knocked off a national seed in North Carolina State by traveling to Raleigh and leaving the host team out of postseason play moving forward.

How to Watch: LSU vs. Little Rock

For the second time in two days, LSU will be the away team against Little Rock when the programs face off in Monday’s rematch.

Here’s how to watch, listen and track the entire game.

WATCH: ESPN2

LISTEN: LSU Sports Radio Network — LSUsports.net/live

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Back in the Bayou State, how did LSU Baseball end up playing on Monday night for a final chance to keep the season alive in a “win or go home” game vs. Little Rock?

Little Rock’s cinderella run began in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament, where the winner’s of 19 of 51 games entering the week went on to win five straight games and capture the OVC Tournament title – and punch an unexpected ticket to the postseason.

With five straight wins in the conference tournament, Little Rock landed in the NCAA’s Baton Rouge Regional, and the first matchup came against the No. 6 national seed in LSU Baseball.

LSU, fresh off a win and a loss at the SEC Tournament, entered the regional with a 43-14 record on the season.

Matched up against a team in Little Rock that had won just six more regular season games than LSU Baseball had lost regular season games this season, the Tigers came out with a bang in Game 1, advancing to Saturday’s winner’s bracket with a 7-0 shutout victory.

LSU handled Dallas Baptist, the victors over Rhode Island on the other side of the four-team bracket, with another shutout, this time winning 12-0. In two games, LSU’s two aces on the mound in Anthony Eyanson and Kade Anderson looked the part, the bats were coming through and the Tigers had won two postseason games by a combined score of 19-0.

Then came the unexpected.

Not only did Little Rock win games against both Rhode Island and Dallas Baptist to climb out of the loser’s bracket, but the cinderella story brought with it a seemingly improbable dominant win over LSU in Sunday’s championship game.

With a 10-4 win, Little Rock had forced LSU into a winner-take-all game on Monday evening at 8 p.m. CT for a chance to advance to the NCAA Super Regionals.

Little Rock improved to 27-33 on the season with Sunday night’s win, while LSU dropped to 45-15. The Trojans earlier on Sunday won an elimination game over Dallas Baptist, 8-6.

“Great job by Little Rock,” said LSU coach Jay Johnson. “Winning two games against two great teams, and you’ve got to tip your hat to them. They took a lot of good at-bats throughout the day. I watched their entire first game as it was transpiring and it was complete performance by them.

The teams will meet again at 8 p.m. CT Monday in the regional championship game, with the winner advancing to face West Virginia in an NCAA Super Regional beginning either Friday or Saturday.

Monday’s game will be broadcast on the LSU Sports Radio Network at LSUsports.net/live and televised on ESPN2.

“I think our game tonight kind of speaks for itself where it got away from us and we’ll leave it (there in Sunday’s loss to Little Rock), turn all our focus to (Monday) and find a way to play great,” Johnson said.

“Our players have done a good job this year of bouncing back after a tough game, both individually and collectively … and it gives me great confidence about what they can do (Monday).”

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