Auburn's 4x400-meter relay anchor leg Jacob Barth took the baton for the final lap in second place. Hunter Piper had no doubt his teammate would win.

The underdogs were back at it Saturday afternoon at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional. A day after being shut out by host LSU on Friday night, UALR regained the form it found last week during the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament as it stayed alive with a 22-10 win over Rhode Island in an NCAA elimination game.

Dallas Baptist, making its 11th consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance (the event was canceled in 2020 due to COVID), plays top-seed LSU and Rhode Island takes on No. 4 seed Arkansas-Little Rock in loser-out game on Saturday.

The killing came during a spree of random shootings in East Feliciana and East Baton Rouge parishes that investigators connected to Sharpe. He was convicted of murder last year in one of the East Feliciana killings, but he has yet to stand trial for Breeden’s death.