导出博客文章BATON ROUGE, La. -- Antonio Blakeney scored 20 points as LSU held off North
Florida 78-70 in a non-conference game Friday.The Ospreys, who trailed by 12
points with slightly more than six minutes remaining in the game, reduced their
deficit to four over the next two minutes. A basket by Romelo Banks left the
Tigers (3-0) ahead 67-63 with 4:11 left.Blakeney then scored six of his 20
points in the last 3 1/2 minutes to enable LSU to pick up the victory. Blakeney
made two field goals and a pair of foul shots. Brandon Sampson had a field goal
and two free throws in the stretch for the Tigers.This was one of those games
where you keep trying to play better as the game goes along, said Blakeney, who
scored 26 points in LSUs previous game against Southern Mississippi. You just
try to correct the mistakes that you make. I am just happy we got the
win.Blakeney was one of four LSU players to score in double figures. Duop Reath
had 17 points before fouling out late in the game. Sampson scored 16 points and
Aaron Epps added 14.It was a grind game for us in the second half with the way
(North Florida) came back, Tigers coach Johnny Jones said. Our guys grinded it
out defensively and they executed offensively. Our guys closed out the game well
with plays made by Blakeney and several other guys.Four players also scored in
double figures for North Florida (1-3). Chris Davenport led the Ospreys with 16
points. Banks, Aaron Bodager and Dallas Moore each had 13 points.North Florida
had lost decisively to its first two power conference opponents this season --
Auburn and Miami.Were growing up, North Florida coach Matthew Driscoll said. We
didnt let the lead LSU built in the second half demoralize us. We cut it to four
points and the guys just kept on fighting. We left so much on the table with 20
turnovers and going 13-for-28 at the free throw line.BIG PICTURELSU: The Tigers
were unable to put North Florida away for good until the final minute. LSU saw a
nine-point first-half advantage cut to one point at the break. Then, the Tigers
lost most of a 12-point lead down the stretch.NORTH FLORIDA: The performance by
the Ospreys was quite different from the one two nights earlier against Miami.
North Florida scored just 56 points while losing by 38 points to the Hurricanes.
The Ospreys outrebounded LSU by ten and shot 44 percent from the field.RUNNING
THE SHOWJalyn Patterson played point guard instead of starter Skylar Mays for
LSU for most of the game. Patterson only scored one point, but handed out a
career-high eight assists and committed just two turnovers in 27 minutes.GROUP
EFFORT ON THE BOARDSNorth Florida was able to stay within striking distance of
LSU all night because of its work on the boards. It was a team effort for the
Ospreys as six players grabbed at least six rebounds. The leader was Romelo
Banks, who was credited with nine rebounds.IMPROVED DEFENSELSU coach Johnny
Jones has emphasized that his team must play more effectively on the defensive
end of the floor this year. North Florida made 44 percent of its field goal
attempts -- the highest mark by a Tigers opponent so far this season. LSU has
not allowed more than 70 points in any of its first three games. The last time
the Tigers had a three-game stretch of not giving up more than 70 points came in
the first three games of last season.UP NEXTLSU: The Tigers will play away from
home for the first time this season in the Battle 4 Atlantis at Paradise Island,
Bahamas. LSU will meet Wichita State in an opening-round game Wednesday.NORTH
FLORIDA: The Ospreys will return home to face their second non-Division I
opponent of the season. North Florida will take on Florida National on Tuesday.
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Claire Smith is the first woman to win the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for
meritorious contributions to baseball writing and will be honored during the
Hall of Fames induction weekend next July in Cooperstown, New York.The
62-year-old Smith covered the New York Yankees for the Hartford Courant for five
years starting in 1983 and was a columnist for The New York Times from 1991-98
and The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1998-2007. She currently is ESPNs news editor
of remote productions.Smith was given a standing ovation when her election was
announced Tuesday at a Baseball Writers Association of America meeting, and she
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56. There were three blanks.A graduate of Temple, Smith also has been among the
pioneering African-American baseball reporters.She was the first winner of the
Sam Lacey-Wendell Smith Award for the Shirley Povich Center for Sports
Journalism at the University of Maryland and was selected as the Sports
Journalist of the Year from the National Association of Black Journalists in
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