McNeese baseball took on Texas A&M - Corpus Christi on Tuesday with the winner advancing to play Nicholls on Wednesday, and the loser's season coming to an end, and behind a dominant performance from Grant Rogers on the mound, the Cowboys beat the Islanders 4-0.
McNeese baseball entered the 2023 season with high expectations as they were picked to win the Southland Conference, but fast forward three and a half months, and the Cowboys find themselves as the six seed entering the Southland Conference Tournament following a season where they finished with a 33-21 record overall, and a 12-12 record in conference play, but now the Pokes enter the Southland Tournament hoping to put that behind them and begin with a fresh slate.
The Southland Conference baseball awards were announced on Monday afternoon with McNeese's Grant Rogers, Brad Burckel, and Cooper Hext all being recognized.
The McNeese Cowgirls once up by as many as six runs over No. 7 Washington allowed the Huskies to come all the way back to win their NCAA Regional Championship 7-6 over the Cowgirls.
Andre Sam, the former Iowa Yellowjacket, and McNeese Cowboy defensive back, announced via Twitter Thursday afternoon that he would be transferring to LSU.
Despite putting up eight runs offensively, it was a disappointing Wednesday night for McNeese baseball as they opened up their final regular season series with a 14-8 loss to Miami of Ohio.
Heath Schroyer, who has served as McNeese’s Director of Athletics since 2019, signed a five year extension on Wednesday to remain in the role he has served in for the past three years.
The McNeese Cowgirls are back in the NCAA Tournament field of 64 for the third straight season in a row, and this year they have a new challenge as they will travel out to Seattle, Washington for the regional round of the tournament.
On Sunday, the McNeese Cowboys’ basketball program added two more commitments to their 2023 roster. Those two players are Cal State Bakersfield transfer Antavion Collum, and Kimball High School guard T’Johnn Brown.
The McNeese Cowgirls Softball team is coming off of their third straight Southland Conference Tournament Championship after they beat the Southeastern Lions 1-0 on Saturday.
McNeese Softball won the Southland Conference Tournament Championship in dramatic fashion on Saturday afternoon as Reese Reyna hit a walk-off home run in the eighth inning to send the Cowgirls back to the NCAA Tournament once again.
After a long two days of weather delays, the McNeese Cowgirls were able to beat Southeastern 6-2 on Thursday night to advance to Saturday's Southland Conference Championship.
After weather delayed the game from the original start time of 11:00 AM, McNeese softball finally took on Texas A&M - Corpus Christi on Wednesday afternoon around 2:30 in the Southland Conference Tournament Quarterfinals.
After clinching the Southland Conference Regular Season Title last week, the second consecutive title for McNeese, and eighth in program history, the Cowgirls now shift their focus to defending their Southland Conference Tournament crown.
Former McNeese Cowboys running back Deonta McMahon is off to Toronto, Canada. The Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Year decided to ink a deal with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.
Former McNeese and LSU defensive back Colby Richardson had always dreamed of being signed by an NFL team, and this past week that dream became a reality as the Carolina Panthers signed the corner to an undrafted free agency deal.
In their final home series of the season, the McNeese Cowgirls softball team swept the Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders with 7-2 and 5-2 wins on Saturday.
McNeese softball entered the national rankings for the first time of the 2023 season on Monday as they came in at number 25 in the nation, but immediately after getting national recognition for the impressive 2023 season they were putting together, the Cowgirls would be tested by a tough Southeastern Lady Lions team with a doubleheader in Hammond, Louisiana.
Marcus Peterson was a three-star wide receiver in the Class of 2022, and after redshirting his freshman year, and not appearing in any games for the Cincinnati Bearcats, Peterson entered the transfer portal, and on Monday night, the former three-star announced he found a new home in Lake Charles, Louisiana, with the McNeese Cowboys.
After not having a mid-week game the week prior, McNeese baseball was back at home on Tuesday afternoon as they hosted LSU Alexandria, but the Cowboys started an unusual lineup.
In a Twitter Space with KPLC 7 Sports Director Matthew Travis on Tuesday afternoon, McNeese forward Christian Shumate, who entered the transfer portal on March 20th, announced he has removed his name from the transfer portal, and will instead be returning to McNeese for the 2023-24 season.
After not having a mid-week game for just the second time of the 2023 season, McNeese baseball was back in action on Friday night as they hosted New Orleans for the first game of their weekend series.
McNeese softball was at home for a doubleheader on Friday night as they hosted the Nicholls Colonels. The doubleheader was originally scheduled for Saturday with just one game set to take place on Friday, but the potential for inclement weather forced McNeese to adjust the scheduling.
McNeese baseball was in Hammond, America on Friday night as they began their weekend series with the Southeastern Louisiana Lions, a rematch of last year’s Southland Tournament Championship, which Southeastern won, meaning the Pokes had their first chance at revenge on Friday night.
McNeese pitcher Grant Rogers is off to one of the best starts in program history as this past week he became the first NCAA pitcher in the country to reach eight wins on the season.
The McNeese Cowgirls softball team wrapped up their doubleheader against the Northwestern Lady Demons on Friday as they fell in their afternoon game 7-6, but then bounced back with a 4-0 victory in the second game of the day.
Both McNeese baseball, and softball were supposed to be in action on Thursday night as they were set to begin their series against Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, and Northwestern State respectively, but due to the inclement weather Lake Charles received on Thursday night, both games were postponed.
McNeese and the Louisiana Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns had faced off two prior times in 2023 before Tuesday’s matchup at Cowgirl Diamond, but entering a windy night in Lake Charles on Tuesday, the Cowgirls had yet to beat their in-state rival from Lafayette, being outscored 13-3 in their previous two matchups combined. Unfortunately for the Cowgirls, it was more of the same on Tuesday night as they recorded just one hit, a Reese Reyna single through the infield, in their 7-0 loss to the Ragin’ Cajuns.
The McNeese Cowboys baseball team has opened up Southland Conference play with a slow (2-4) start, which includes a 2-1 series loss this past week to Houston Christian this past weekend.
The McNeese Cowboys football team is preparing for their third spring scrimmage game of the new year, and head coach Gary Goff made it clear that he wants to see his wide receivers step up this coming Saturday.
After a series sweep against Yale, the McNeese Cowboys baseball team has hit a little bit of a wall. The team dropped three out of four games this past week including two losses to Southland Conference foe Nicholls.
Jil Poullard is a Sam Houston High School graduate, and she had been a member of the McNeese Softball team from 2020 until February of this year when it was announced that she and McNeese had agreed to part ways. Then on Sunday Poullard announced she will remain a Cowgirl, but she is trading in her McNeese royal blue, and sunflower gold for Oklahoma State black and orange.
McNeese men’s basketball guard Johnathan Massie announced via Twitter on Monday morning that he is leaving the Cowboys, and has entered his name into the transfer portal.
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