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After a convincing three-game series sweep of UALR last weekend in Little Rock, Louisiana aims to build upon its season-long three-game winning streak when the Ragin' Cajuns face Northwestern State Wednesday in Natchitoches.
• Last weekend, the Cajuns used a pair of offensive outbursts from Josh Logan and Scott Hawkins to reverse Louisiana's recent misfortunes.
• Logan, who is now hitting at a team-best .317 clip, saw hit batting average jump 104 points last week after hitting .625 in four games with six extra-base hits in four games.
• Friday night, senior southpaw Hunter Moody earned his 26th career victory on the mound, moving him into a first-place tie with Andy Gros and Scott Dohmann. For his efforts, Moody was named the Sun Belt's Pitcher of the Week for the third time - a single-season school record.
• Moody has now been named Sun Belt Pitcher of the Week five times in his career - the other two times coming during his Sun Belt Pitcher of the Year campaign in 2006.
TRIPLE CROWN. Hunter Moody earned his third Sun Belt Conference Pitcher award Monday. Moody's third weekly league honor is a single-season school record...Moody became the first pitcher in school history to be named Sun Belt Pitcher of the Week successive weeks. Monday's recognition is the fifth of his career, tying him with Kevin Ardoin for the most in school history.
SNAP, CRACKLE, POP. Senior centerfielder Josh Logan exploded last week, hitting an astounding .625 (10-for-16) with six extra-base hits, including his first two career home runs...Logan popped UALR pitching for eight hits in 12 at bats, while also swiping three stolen bases. He drove in three runs in each of the final two games in the series - tying a career high.
LOGAN NAMED LSWA HITTER OF THE WEEK. For his efforts last week, Josh Logan was named the LSWA Hitter of the Week - a season first for a Cajuns hitter...Earlier this year, Hunter Moody won the first two LSWA Pitcher of the Week honors, matching his first two SBC awards.
HARST'S SUNDAY HERO. Sophomore Chance Harst, who replaced an injured Nolan Gisclair at UALR, posted a clutch performance in Sunday's 8-7 win over the Trojans...Harst's two-run home run in the eighth inning tied the game at 6 all before the Cajuns took the lead...After UALR cut the Cajuns lead to 8-7, Harst then made the game-saving catch, catching a Brad Swiderski fly ball before falling to the ground.
GAINING GROUND. Entering last weekend's series at UALR, Louisiana was one game out of 10th place in the Sun Belt standings, having lost five of its first six games...After a series sweep, the Cajuns sit in sixth place and are one game out of fourth place (Arkansas State).
MOODY BLUES. Senior Hunter Moody has become arguably one of the greatest pitchers in school and SBC history and is on pace to rewrite the Cajuns career record book...Moody's next start will be the 44th of his career, which will move him into fourth place on the career list. He needs 1 1/3 innings to move into fifth place in career innings pitched...His next victory will be his 27th, which will set a new school record...Moody also needs five strikeouts to move into fifth place on the career punch-out list.
HAWKINS HOMERING TOWARD TOP FIVE. Scott Hawkins hit his team-leading fourth homer of the season in Friday's 12-1 win at UALR. Hawkins now has 25 career blasts and trails Dallas Morris (29) by four for fifth on the all-time list.
EVERYTHING'S BETTER IN TEXAS. Junior infielder and Houston native Matt Hicks hit his third home run of the season in a 17-6 loss at No. 13 Rice Wednesday night. Hicks has hit all three of his homers in the Lone Star State. Wednesday's two-run blast was his first since Feb. 23.
HITTING CLINIC. Louisiana rapped out a season-high 14 hits during Wednesday's loss at Rice. The Cajuns' 14 base knocks were the most since recording 15 vs. Troy in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament on May 24, 2007.
WALK THIS WAY. Junior Matt Hicks tied a school record, drawing four walks in Saturday's win at Florida Atlantic. Ironically, Hicks was the first Cajun since Scott Hawkins drew four walks against Florida Atlantic in 2007.
CAJUNS VISIT NATCHITOCHES WEDNESDAY. Wednesday's meeting between the long-time rivals will be the 115th all-time - the fifth-longest rivalry in UL history...The Cajuns have played only Louisiana Tech (139), McNeese State (138), New Orleans (135) and Lamar (125) more times.
I-10 SERIES. Louisiana is 0-4 against schools located along the I-10 corridor. The Cajuns have three more I-10 opponents left on the slate - Lamar, LSU and New Orleans.
NORTHWESTERN STATE SCOUTING REPORT. Northwestern State (13-8) has won five of its last six contests and has won its last four home games...The Demons are off to a 5-1 start in the Southland Conference after sweeping Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and winning two of three at Southeastern Louisiana...Eleven (11) of the Demons' 13 wins have come at Brown-Stroud Field. Northwestern's only other two wins came last weekend at SLU.
NORTHWESTERN STATE SERIES. Louisiana is 69-45 all-time against the Demons, but have lost five of the last seven meetings...Wednesday's meeting was to be the second of four scheduled games this season.
UP NEXT - FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL. Louisiana returns to "The Tigue" its first home games since March 9 when the Cajuns host the FIU Golden Panthers for a three-game set this weekend...The Cajuns, which are currently on a nine-game road trip, were scheduled to have played Northwestern State last Tuesday, but inclement weather forced the game to be postponed until April.
CAJUNS POST SECOND STRAIGHT SWEEP IN UALR SERIES. Last weekend, the Cajuns posted a three-game series sweep of the UALR Trojans for the second straight season. In 2007, the Cajuns swept all three games in Lafayette, including a 28-3 win that clinched the Sun Belt Conference title...The Cajuns were the first team to sweep the Trojans at Gary Hogan Field since Troy in 2006...It was Louisiana's first sweep in Little Rock since the 1997 season - the same season the Cajuns won their first Sun Belt Conference title until head coach Tony Robichaux.
COMEBACK CAJUNS. In the first 19 games of the season, UL had failed to comeback from a deficit to win a game, starting the season 0-10 when trailing after six innings...However, in the last two games of the UALR series, the Cajuns overcame an early deficit Saturday and a late one on Sunday to preserve the series sweep.
MIDDLE INNING JITTERS. Louisiana has allowed 125 runs through 21 games. More than half - Sixty-three (63) - of those 125 runs have come in the middle three innings...The Cajuns gave up a season-high 11 runs in the middle three innings at Rice (4 in the 4th; 7 in the 6th). UL held UALR to just four middle-inning runs in three games last weekend.
FOUR MORE. Scott Hawkins and Matt Goulas each rapped out a team-best four hits in Friday's 12-1 win at UALR. For Hawkins, it was his second four-hit performance of the season. It was also his second 4-for-4 outing this season - he also went 4-for-4 vs. Oral Roberts.
TURN BACK THE CLOCK NIGHT MOVED. With inclement weather postponing Tuesday night's game with Northwestern State, 'Turn Back the Clock' Night will move to the April 16 make-up date with the Demons.
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