LSU Baseball Player Ill With Meningitis

BATON ROUGE, La. —  Louisiana State University, whose basketball team rode out a chicken pox epidemic to reach the Final Four, now has a member of its top-ranked baseball team hospitalized with highly contagious meningitis, the school announced Friday.

Freshman reserve infielder Wayne Stofsky, 18, from Pembroke Pines, Fla., has been quarantined at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, and teammates, trainers, coaches and batgirls have been given preventive medicine, the school said.

Mike McCullough, trainer for the Tigers (29-3) said Stofsky became ill after Wednesday’s doubleheader at Nicholls State University.