LSU baseball is looking to the past for help after suffering seven consecutive losses.Coach Paul Mainieri showed his team a video package Monday featuring highlights from the 2009 LSU baseball team that won the national championship.”I wanted them to see themselves playing good baseball,” he said. “They have talent and they can be successful. I want them to fill their heads with nothing but positive thoughts.”The seven-game streak is the longest under Mainieri and the longest since 1982.Junior catcher Micah Gibbs said the losing streak is the toughest stretch he has been through since playing baseball.”We’ve been kind of spoiled in the two years we had before that,” he said. “I know a lot of people are worried, but we’re definitely not.”No. 24 LSU (32-13, 11-10) will try to end its skid when it hosts Southeastern Louisiana tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Alex Box Stadium.”We’re going to get after this game like it’s a [Southeastern Conference] game,” Mainieri said. “It’s not really because of Southeastern. We need to win a game … We want to taste victory.”Wanting may not be enough for LSU.The Lions (33-13, 15-9) won four of their last five games.”Their record is legitimate, and they deserve all the accolades that they get and the positive things said about them,” Mainieri said. “[Southeastern coach Jay Artigues has] done a tremendous job with their team, and they’ve got good ballplayers. I’m sure they’re going to come here tomorrow night with a lot of desire.”Gibbs said the team feels like it has wiped its slate clean and is focused on winning its next game.”Right now we’re just looking forward to Southeastern to put it all behind us,” he said. “We’re 0-0 — that’s our mentality … We’re kind of thinking of this as our new season.”If LSU is indeed trying to start anew, it’ll have to do it in a short period of time.The Tigers have 11 games remaining before the start of the SEC tournament. Nine are conference matchups.”If we play well down the stretch, I don’t see any reason why our RPI can’t be around 10 or 11 by the end of the year,” Mainieri said.Whether or not LSU plays well may rely on pitching.The Tiger pitching staff has allowed 59 earned runs during the stretch.Junior Austin Ross is responsible for getting the pitching staff on track tonight.Ross (3-4) has amassed a 5.54 ERA while striking out 57 and walking 13.Mainieri said Ross will only pitch a limited time, and he will use multiple pitchers after that.  “What I’m going to do is ask Austin Ross for four shutout innings, which he’s done several times this year,” Mainieri said. “It’s been that fifth inning that’s been his ‘bugaboo’ … Let him dominate two times around the order and then get him out of there and try somebody new.”Southeastern Louisiana will start sophomore Josh Janway on the mound.Janway (3-0) gives up an average of 2.08 earned runs per nine innings pitched and has 37 strikeouts and nine walks. —-Contact Johanathan Brooks at [email protected]