The Games: Towson (0-4, 0-0 CAA) @ No. 11 LSU (3-0, 0-0 SEC), vs. Southern (2-1, 0-0 SWAC)
When (all times ET): 
Friday, Feb. 25 - vs. Southern, 1 p.m. | @ LSU, 7 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 26 - vs. Southern, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 27 - @ LSU, 1 p.m.
Where: Alex Box Stadium – Baton Rouge, La.
Broadcast: SEC Network+ (Towson-LSU games only)
Series: First meeting between Towson and LSU | Southern leads 1-0
 
BATON ROUGE, La. – The Towson University baseball team will play its next four games out in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, taking on #11 LSU and Southern in two games each.
 
The Towson-LSU games will be broadcast on SEC Network+, available via subscription. 
 
CAA member Towson fell in a four-game series at #25 Miami over the weekend to enter at 0-4.  LSU, member of the SEC and a 2021 College World Series participant, swept Maine at home last weekend for a 3-0 record.  Southern, the defending SWAC champion, took two of three in the Andre Dawson Classic last weekend for a 2-1 record.
 
Towson will play LSU for the first time ever.  The Tigers played Southern on Mar. 16, 1987 in Baton Rouge, a 13-9 defeat.
 
TWO TIGERS NAMED PRESEASON ALL-CAA
A pair of Tigers were honored on preseason all-conference teams by different publications.
 
Nick Janowicz was selected as Preseason Honorable Mention All-CAA by the league's head coaches.  Janowicz was second on the team last season in each strikeouts with 53 and innings pitched with 66.2.
 
Danny Becerra was named Preseason CAA All-Conference by Perfect Game USA at shortstop.  He earned 19 multi-hit contests last year, finishing with 12 doubles, 24 RBI and 11 stolen bases.
 
COMING OFF CAA TOURNAMENT YEAR
Towson earned an important feat last season, making the CAA Tournament for the first time since 2013.  The Tigers finished second in the CAA North at 11-12, including two series victories over Delaware.  Towson picked up the 5-seed in the CAA Tournament.
 
The team also finished with 21 victories, the most in a season since 2014.
 
LAST TIME: TOWSON SWEPT BY #25 MIAMI
Towson gave a good challenge to #25 Miami in the season opener, but fell in the four games 10-8, 11-2, 13-2 and 11-1.
Key stat:
--Led 6-4 in game one after four innings
Top Towson batter:
--#29 Chandler Castleberry: .333, 2 2B, 1 3B, 2 RBI
Top Towson pitcher:
--#10 Justin Rebok: 2.0 IP, 0.00 ERA, .000 B/AVG
 
WELCOME NEW STAFF
Two new coaches join the team for the 2022 season.  Blake Nation is the new pitching coach after three years at Hofstra, coaching Jim Joyce, a 16th round pick in the 2021 MLB Draft. 
 
Also joining is volunteer assistant coach Paul Benoit, who coached four all-league players at Ottawa University.
 
In addition, head coach Matt Tyner elevated Tanner Biagini to interim associate head coach in his fifth year with the team.
 
INFIELD INTENSITY
Towson returns nearly all players from 2021 who started in the infield last season.  Danny Becerra and Nolan Young started nearly every game at short and second respectively, hitting .258 and .256, while Bryce Frederick, Jake Lysaght, Jack McLaughlin and Nick Brown manned the corners.
 
TIGERS IN THE PROS
Towson has two players in the minor leagues.  Richie Palacios, a third-round pick by Cleveland in 2018, is the #9 rated-prospect in the Guardians system, hitting .297 with 33 doubles in the minors.  Brady Policelli, a 13th round draft pick by the Detroit Tigers in 2016, was a spring training invite in 2019 and 2020 having spent five years in the minors. Gavin Weyman has pitched in independent league ball the past three years, throwing for the Ogden Raptors in the Pioneer League in 2021.
 
TOWSON PICKED SEVENTH IN CAA PRESEASON POLL
Towson has been predicted to finish seventh in the CAA preseason coaches poll as the league returns to a round robin format.  Reigning champion Northeastern is predicted to finish first followed by last year's southern division winner UNCW.  The rest of the poll is filled out by Charleston, Elon, James Madison, W&M, Towson, Delaware and Hofstra.
 
SCOUTING THE OPPONENTS:
LSU stands #11 in the country by Baseball America.  A pair of redshirt sophomores lead in average early: Brayden Jobert hits .667 with two homers and nine RBI while Cady Doughty is hitting .571 with two home runs and 12 RBI.
 
Southern is hitting .314 as a team early on.  Sophomore Hunter Tabb has a .700 average with two doubles while senior Jovante Dorris has three multi-hit games, hitting .500.