Privateers lose tonight at Troy... We take care of business and we be "dogpilin" tomorrow baby!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
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Privateers lose tonight at Troy... We take care of business and we be "dogpilin" tomorrow baby!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ULforlife
We did our part. Cajuns win 13-3!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by IHateLaState
Just keep winning baby!!!
UNO down 6-4 with 3 outs to go. Cajuns win 13-3. I can smell a trophy.
This would be one of the most dominate Championships ever!!! Am I right? how often do teams win conference a week early in college baseball? ( please excuse Oral Roberts from the previous statement).
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This was a very impressive game tonight. Great pitching, good hitting, (two mammouth home runs from Scott Hawkins), & a very large crowd. I think Farquar had 13 or 14 strike outs. It was a lot of fun. :D :D :D :D :D
ball game. Troy 6 UNO 4. SSSWWWWWEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
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UL’s baseball team is already assured of a trophy, and it’s all but a foregone conclusion that the Ragin’ Cajuns will be dog-piling at Moore Field either Saturday or Sunday.
All that has to happen is for UL to win one of its remaining two weekend home games against Arkansas-Little Rock, and the Cajuns have their second Sun Belt Conference crown in three years -- but the first that they’ve won on their Moore Field home turf.
And nobody’s more aware of that than the Cajun players. Several have talked about their desires to win the title in front of the home fans, giving them a reward for the devotion they’ve shown during the season. UL’s averaging nearly 2,400 fans per home game this season, and should draw two of their largest crowds of the season Saturday and Sunday for Alumni Weekend festivities and Senior Day/Graduation Day activities.
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But it’s dangerous to assume anything. UALR’s more than capable of winning games. Just ask Troy, a team that was riding high with a legitimate chance to contend for the league title before going into Little Rock last weekend and being handed three straight losses.
The Trojans also have something to play for. They’re in a fight for their season not to end, trying to get one of the last spots in the Sun Belt Tournament that go to the top eight of the league’s 11 teams.
More importantly, it’s baseball. There’s no such thing as an upset in baseball. Teams can get hot or turn cold overnight.
In 2000, UL had a chance at the Sun Belt title by taking only one win out of three season-ending home games against New Orleans. UNO came to Moore Field and won three in a row, stifling a celebration that many thought was inevitable.
The Cajuns went on to win NCAA Regional and Super Regional titles that year and advanced to a first-ever College World Series appearance in the greatest season in the program’s history. But that scene of UNO celebrating at Moore Field stuck in many people’s minds.
For those who were at the “Tigue” that weekend, players and fans alike, a dog-pile this weekend would be nice to watch. But they’re not assuming anything until that final out is recorded.
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Friday's 13-3 home win over Arkansas-Little Rock puts UL's baseball team within arm's reach of its second Sun Belt Conference regular-season crown in three seasons. In fact, the Cajuns are assured of at least a share of this year's league title entering today's 2:05 p.m. contest at Moore Field.
The Cajuns, who won the regular-season title on the road two years ago, need only one win out of today's game and Sunday's home finale for the outright title even before the final series of the season next Thursday-Saturday at New Orleans.
UL moved into this position with Friday's win coupled with Troy's rain-delayed 6-4 home victory Friday night over second-place New Orleans. The Cajuns are five games ahead of UNO, Troy and Middle Tennessee in the standings.
"Winning it here's in the back of everybody's minds," said designated hitter Scott Hawkins, whose two home runs Friday gave him the team lead with 15 this year. "But we have to take care of what we have to do before we worry about anyone else."
If the Cajuns do lock up the title today or Sunday, it would be the first time that UL has clinched a conference crown at home since at least 1992, the first year the Cajuns were members of the Sun Belt.
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"We've been talking about that a lot," said sophomore pitcher Danny Farquhar, who struck out 12 and scattered four hits in eight innings Friday. "We want to do that at home in front of our fans, to give them something because they've been so great for us. Everyone's excited about that."
HOT HOME HAND: Hawkins had the first two-homer game of his career Friday, hitting a 1-2 pitch off the top of the old scoreboard in left field in the second inning for UL's first run and following with a first-pitch homer to left in the seventh.
Hawkins leads the Cajuns in their 22 home games with a .420 batting average along with 10 of his 15 homers on the season.
"I like hitting here," Hawkins said.
Prior to today's game, nearly 100 former UL players will be honored on the field as part of Alumni Weekend. The ex-Cajuns will go to their collegiate positions prior to the game to take part in pregame ceremonies, and will be honored at a reception Saturday night.
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Against reigning Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of the Week David Klumpp, UL's baseball team knew it would be important to score early Friday night.
The Ragin' Cajuns turned it over to an early long-ball attack, one that gave the hosts enough of a bulge to get Klumpp out of the game, and coasted the rest of the way to a 13-3 victory over Arkansas-Little Rock in the opener of their Sun Belt Conference series at Moore Field.
Scott Hawkins and Matt Hicks had solo home runs in the second and third innings to bring UL back from an early 1-0 deficit, and the Cajuns took advantage of a tiring Klumpp and two Trojan relievers to put up 11 runs in the final three innings.
Hawkins and Hicks also provided some of that late scoring, with Hawkins lacing a first-pitch two-run homer during a three-run seventh inning and Hicks had his first career triple to plate two runs in a five-run eighth inning.
"We knew they were throwing lefthanders all weekend," Hawkins said. "In practice on Thursday, instead of our regular batting practice with the coaches throwing, Chase Richard and Dane Maxwell (UL redshirt lefthanders) threw live to us. That helped us out."
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The late bulge broke up a pitchers' duel between Klumpp (4-5), who pitched a complete-game shutout last Friday against Troy in earning the league's weekly honor, and UL's Danny Farquhar.
"He's a good arm and we knew he was going to come in here with a lot of confidence," said Cajun coach Tony Robichaux of Klumpp. "We got some good barrels on it early, and after that we were able to break it open."
The late bulge also put UL (36-13, 19-6 Sun Belt) within sight of locking down the Sun Belt's regular-season title. A win in either today's 2:05 p.m. contest or Sunday's 1 p.m. home-season finale would clinch the outright crown for the Cajun squad.
It would take only one of those wins if New Orleans loses one of its three games at Troy this weekend. Friday night's UNO-Troy game was delayed by rain for over two hours and was not completed at press time.
Farquhar (5-3), on the other hand, never allowed the Trojans to get rolling offensively. The sophomore righthander, making his second start of the season and his first at home, scattered four hits and fanned a career-high 12 through eight innings before Matt Pilgreen finished off in the ninth.
"I was nervous in the first inning, my first Friday night start at home," said Farquhar. "After that I settled down and just kept pitching."
UALR (20-27, 8-16) got a run in the first inning when Farquhar walked leadoff hitter Nick DeSanctis before hitting two straight batters and Brian Asbill delivered a two-out single. After that, though, Farquhar retired 14 of the next 16 batters he faced until Ryan Gotcher's leadoff double and Asbill's RBI single in the sixth tied the game at two.
"They worked him some in the first," Robichaux said, "and we were worried about where his pitch count would end up. But he settled in and held them there."
Two walks and a pair of UALR errors - two of five in the game for the Trojans - set up RBI hits by Kolin Hatfield and Matt Casbon in the sixth. Jonathan Lucroy's third of three hits and Jefferies Tatford's RBI double in the seventh preceded Hawkins' second homer, and Hicks had the biggest of five hits in the eighth off relievers Mike Rogers and Joe Campbell.
The win was UL's seventh in their last eight games and improved the home record to 20-2.
"We started out 10-0 this year," Robichaux said, "and our goal was to have that team finish up. We've done that in the last four games."
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LOUISIANA La. - Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns baseball team entered Saturday’s game needing to win one game to clinch the 2007 Sun Belt Conference regular season championship. The Cajuns (37-13, 20-6 SBC) collected a season high 24 hits en route to a 28-3 victory over Arkansas-Little Rock.
For the Cajuns, the championship is their second in three year. UL claimed the 2005 SBC regular season title and fell one game shy of repeating in 2006 placing second behind Troy.
The Cajuns left little doubt on Saturday afternoon as they scored a new school record 28 runs in the game. The Cajuns scored in every inning except the first inning and put together three six-run innings and a pair of four-run innings.
Seven different Cajuns players had multiple hits in the game.
The Cajuns were led by Jonathan Lucroy. The junior catcher finished the day 4-for-6 with a pair of homeruns. He scored four runs and drove in a pair of runs.
Devon Bourque, Scott Hawkins, Matt Hicks and Josh Logan all collected three hits on the day. Bourque, Hicks and Logan all doubled, while Hawkins added his team-leading 16th homer of the year. Logan finished a homerun shy of the cycle as he singled, doubled and tripled.
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Jefferies Tatford and William Long both added a pair of hits on the day.
Three Cajuns drove in four runs apiece. Hawkins, Hicks and Nolan Gisclair all had four RBI days. Gisclair pinch hit in the bottom of the eighth with the bases loaded and hit his first grand slam in a Cajuns uniform.
Not only were the Cajuns’ bats hot, the UL pitchers shutdown the UALR offensive attack.
Starting pitcher Hunter Moody (7-3) earned his seventh win of the season. The southpaw worked 6.0 innings, scattering six hits. He allowed three runs, but cruised to the victory. Moody struck out eight batters without issuing a free pass on the day.
Andrew Laughter entered the game in relief of Moody. Laughter worked 3.0 scoreless innings to earn his second save of the season. The senior hurler surrendered just four hits, without issuing a walk and striking out three.
The Cajuns jumped out to an early 4-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning. Hawkins reached base on a fielding error by the Trojans that allowed him to move to second. Tatford moved the runner over with a sacrifice bunt. Kolin Hatfield reached base by way of a fielder’s choice, but Hawkins slid under the tag at home for the first run of the game. The Cajuns would add three more runs as UALR would ultimately commit three errors in the inning.
Lucroy led off the third inning with a homerun and the Cajuns sent 10 batters to the plate as they finished the inning with six runs on six hits to jump out to a commanding 10-0 lead.
The Cajuns only hiccup of the game came in the fourth inning. Four UALR hits led to three runs and cut the UL advantage to just 10-3.
The Trojans would get no closer than seven runs in the game.
UL added a run in the fourth inning before scoring four runs in the fifth. The four-run fifth was highlighted by three Ragin’ Cajuns’ hits and three consecutive RBI walks by Arkansas-Little Rock.
The Cajuns’ fortune continued in the sixth inning. With two on and no outs, Hawkins belted his team-leading 16th homerun of the year. The three-run shot helped power a six-run inning by the Cajuns. Logan added a two-RBI triple and came around to score on an RBI single by Hicks.
Leading 21-3, the Ragin’ Cajuns got a solo homerun from Lucroy. The homer was the second on the day for the Umatilla, Fla. native. The homerun marked just the second time in his career that Lucroy had multiple homers. He had a pair of homeruns against Florida International on March 31.
The Cajuns put the final exclamation mark on the game in the bottom of the eighth inning. Leading 24-3, Gisclair entered the game as a pinch hitter with the bases loaded. Gisclair lifted a 2-1 pitch over the left-centerfield wall for his 10th homerun of the season and his first grand slam at UL.
The Ragin’ Cajuns and Trojans will complete the three-game Sun Belt Conference series on Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m.
-Ragin’ Cajuns-
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28 - 3.....you've gotta be kid'n me!? Wow... :eek:Quote:
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