The LSU baseball team continues to slip.
The Tigers (17-7, 1-5) fell in all three major polls Monday after dropping its weekend series with Georgia. Coach Paul Mainieri’s squad has now lost six of its last seven games.
Baseball America rates LSU No. 17, Collegiate Baseball slots the Tigers at No. 25 and USA Today/ESPN tabs them No. 16.
LSU will look to turn things around Wednesday against McNeese State (14-11).
The Tigers’ relatively soft nonconference schedule helped them roar out to a 16-1 start to the season.
The team did sweep then-No. 6 Cal State Fullerton, however, despite opening the season against the likes of Wake Forest, Holy Cross and Princeton at home.
Since then, the Tigers were swept by then-No. 1 Florida, dropped a midweek game to Louisiana-Lafayette and then lost two of three at Georgia.
Mainieri tried to jumpstart his team after the Florida sweep by inserting junior Mike Lowery at first base and moving freshman second baseman JaCoby Jones to the top of the order and putting junior outfielder Trey Watkins in the No. 9 hole.
After the losses, Mainieri is switching things up again, as Jones will move to No. 3 spot in the order.Junior third baseman Tyler Hanover will move into the leadoff slot.  
Following its matchup with McNeese, LSU will host Ole Miss this weekend.
Meanwhile, former No. 1 Florida slid in the polls after losing two out of three against South Carolina this weekend. The Gators stop in at No. 4 in the Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball polls. USA Today/ESPN has them at No. 3.
The Gamecocks surged after the series win, vaulting to No. 3 in the Baseball America and Collegiate Baseball polls. They remained at No. 4 in the ESPN/USA Today poll.
LSU won’t play South Carolina this season, but is scheduled to square off against Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tenn., in late April.
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