UL 3
HU 2
no body out
runners at the corners
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UL 3
HU 2
no body out
runners at the corners
Middle of the 4th
UL 6
HU 2
Top of the 9th
Louisiana - 14
Harvard - 2
Game over. Way to go boys. .~.
Final Score
Louisiana's Ragin Cajuns - 14
Harvard Bookworms - 2
In all seriousness though, with these new NCAA academic guidelines, maybe we should continue playing Harvard and they can tutor our guys. LOL. Peace Out Cajun Nation!
God Bless.
<blockquote><p align=justify>MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - The offensive frustrations of the past two games boiled over for Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun baseball team here Friday, and it was an unlikely source that led the outburst.
Senior catcher Justin Morgan, known primarily for defense in a backup role throughout his five-year career, tied two Cajun school hitting records in leading UL to a runaway 14-2 victory over Harvard in the opening game of the Metrodome Classic.
The Cajuns, snapping a two-game losing streak for their only two setbacks of the year, recorded 21 hits against the Crimson, which was opening its 2005 season.
Morgan had five of those hits, becoming the 13th Cajun to record that feat and the first since Bryan Sneed did it against New Mexico State in 2001. Morgan also had three doubles among the Cajuns' seven extra-base hits, tying the mark held by nine other players.
"No question, Justin's earned every minute of his success today," said Cajun coach Tony Robichaux. "He's a guy that came here with no scholarship, a five-year guy that has done everything we've ever asked of him. There's nobody on this team that deserves this more."
Morgan also had four RBI, plating two runs in a four-run fifth inning and adding a two-run single in the eighth for the Cajuns' final two runs.
The offensive explosion came on the heels of a 12-1 loss to Hawai'i in the concluding game of the First Hawai'i Title Rainbow Tournament and a 4-3 home loss to McNeese Wednesday. Before those setbacks, UL had won a school-record 14 straight games to open the season.
"We needed to turn things around," Morgan said, "and build on what we had before during the win streak. But today was something I'm not used to. Hitting is something I've struggled with since I've been here, and I'm just glad I was able to contribute today."
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The easy win put the Cajuns one step closer to their fourth tournament title of the year, after the won their own UL Invitational and Mardi Gras Ball crowns and the championship of the prestigious Hawai'i meet. The Cajuns meet host Minnesota (1-5) today at 6:30 p.m. and face St. John's at 10:30 a.m. Sunday in the round-robin event.
The offensive surge nearly overshadowed a stellar mound performance by Jered Salazar and Thad Montgomery. Senior righthander Salazar (2-0) scattered five hits and allowed only the two runs while fanning a career-high eight Crimson hitters in six innings.
Salazar had only a few minutes' notification that he would be starting. Scheduled starter Buddy Glass developed cramps and was scratched, but Robichaux said the change was precautionary and Glass will be available in relief Sunday.
"I was the first guy up in relief anyway," said Salazar, who retired Harvard in order in three of his six innings. "I was getting ready, and when coach Robe came to talk to me before the game there wasn't really much time to think. I just went out there and pitched."
"The good thing about this staff is we have some depth," Robichaux said. "We can go to a guy on two minutes' notice and he can go out and perform like that. I love Jered as a starter, out of the pen or just to get a couple of outs. You always know what you're going to get from him, and that's strikes."
Montgomery came on in the seventh with two runners in scoring position and none out, and got out of the jam with no runs and gave up only two hits in earning the save. He fanned five, giving the Cajun staff a total of 13 strikeouts.
The Cajuns touched Harvard starter Javier Castellanos (0-1) for single runs in the first and second on Jefferies Tatford's sacrifice fly and Justin Merendino's solo homer. After Harvard scored two in the third on RBI singles by Matt Vance and Lance Salsgiver, UL opened a gap with four runs in the third keyed by Phillip Hawke's two-run single.
Morgan's two-run double keyed another four-run inning in the fifth, and the Cajuns added single runs in the seventh and eighth before Morgan's two-run capper in the eighth.
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