BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Northeastern Huskies (1-6) fell 3-1 to #2 LSU (10-1) on Saturday afternoon at Alex Box Stadium in just the second all-time meeting between the two programs.
 
AJ Aschettino provided the lone offensive highlight for Northeastern, accounting for all three of the team's hits and its only run in a competitive effort against the defending national champions in front of a crowd of 11,839.
 
Despite NU's loss, Luc Rising turned in a standout performance out of the bullpen, retiring the last nine batters he faced over 4.2 scoreless innings after inheriting a 3-0 deficit.

• All three LSU runs were set up in part by Husky miscues — walks, wild pitches, and an error each played a role in each of the Tigers' scoring innings.
• Aschettino put Northeastern on the board in the fifth with a solo home run to right field — his first career hit — to cut the LSU lead to 3-1. He added a double to left center in the seventh for his first career extra-base hit, finishing 2-for-3 with the RBI as the team's only multi-hit performer on the afternoon.
• Harrison Feinberg collected Northeastern's other hit, an infield single in the sixth, as part of a sequence that put runners at second and third, but the Huskies couldn't cash in.Matthew Sapienza started and took the loss, exiting in the fourth after allowing three runs on four hits, striking out a season-high three batters in 3.1 innings.
• Rising's 4.2-inning shutdown kept the game within reach but the Husky offense couldn't generate anything against LSU's pitching staff despite getting the tying run to the plate in the eighth and ninth innings.
• Northeastern went 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position and left six on base, failing to break through against one of the nation's top pitching staffs.

 
The Huskies continue their Baton Rouge weekend on Sunday, March 1st with a 6 p.m. CT first pitch against Grambling State at Alex Box Stadium.