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Congrats, ladies! (By the way, its the Judi Garman Classic (with an M)
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Congrats, ladies! (By the way, its the Judi Garman Classic (with an M)
Seriously guys, this is amazing. Many people don't realize how big this is.Quote:
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We do lose two very important peices of the puzzle in Bertucci and Chatman. But think of a pitching staff that will include Cuervas (who has been nothing short of superb as a Freshman, and Tankersly who is pitching better and better and then add the LA player of the year and one of the top pitchers in the nation in Brignac. Not to mention Hill and Sigur, whom have pitched well in small doses this season.
Geaux Cajuns beat:
Penn State and whomever you play after that
Middle Tennessee (baseball)
Marquette (women's basketball)
Does anyone know if the UL vs Penn State game is on live stat or radio anywhere. This sucks we might not be able to follow the game.Quote:
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Note: Live Stats will be unavailable for Saturday's game with Penn State
Lady Cajuns move on to the semifinals with a 6-5 win over Penn State. It was just posted on Fullertontitans.comQuote:
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As of yet, they do not have the box score up, so I am not sure exactly how it all worked out. But the important thing is that the Cajuns face Arizona in the Semi's tommorrow at 8:30 PST. That will be 10:30 am your time. 11:30 my time.
Geaux Cajuns!!!!!!
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FULLERTON, Calif. - Holly Tankersley's two home runs and the pitching of Brittany Cuevas guided UL's 15th-ranked softball team into the championship semifinals of the Judi Garman Classic Saturday afternoon.
But there was also a key defensive play, one by shortstop Codi Runyan, that helped the Cajuns take a 6-5 victory over Penn State in Saturday's quarterfinal round of the nation's most prestigious mid-season collegiate tournament.
Penn State, the number two seed from its pool, was holding a 5-4 lead and loaded the bases against Cuevas with one out in the top of the sixth when Runyan ran down a sinking line drive behind third base and ran to the bag for an unassisted double play to end the Nittany Lions' threat.
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UL (28-6) took advantage moments later when Melissa Verde singled with one out and Tankersley followed with a tape-measure home run over the right-field wall for the tying and go-ahead runs off Penn State reliever and loser Ashley Esparza (4-6).
Cuevas set Penn State down in order in the top of the seventh to send the Cajuns into today's championship semifinals against fifth-ranked Arizona (20-6) at 10:30 a.m. If UL wins that game, the tournament title game follows at about 2 p.m.
Cuevas (17-3) took her third win of the tournament, allowing eight hits to a Penn State squad that scored single runs in the second and fifth innings and took a 4-3 lead with a three-run fourth inning. Those three scored on Danielle Kinley's solo homer and a two-run homer from PSU starting pitcher Jenn Reynolds.
UL tied the game at four in the bottom of the fourth inning when Verde doubled as part of her four-hit game and Lacey Bertucci followed with a one-out sacrifice fly.
Penn State reclaimed the lead on Esparza's RBI double and threatened more before the inning-ending double play in the sixth set the stage for Tankersley's 10th homer of the season and second of the game.
The first of those homes came in the bottom of the first off Reynolds, when Verde led off with a bloop single and Tankersley took a 2-2 pitch over the center-field wall.
Penn State cut the 2-0 lead in half in the second on singles from Danielle Kinley and Kayce Zielinski before UL rebuilt a two-run lead when Verde singled in the second and eventually scored when Desi Chatman drew a bases-loaded walk.
UL had finished pool play with a perfect 3-0 mark in Pool B, downing Fresno State, second-ranked Arizona State and Notre Dame in Thursday and Friday's action.
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What about the Cajuns/Zona game. Are there live stats for it?????Quote:
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FULLERTON, Calif. - UL's softball team suffered its first loss in the prestigious Judi Garman Classic Sunday in the championship semifinals, and Sarah Akamine had everything to do with that setback.
The Arizona freshman designated hitter poked two grand-slam home runs - the first two homers of her college career - and provided more than enough offense for the fifth-ranked Wildcats to post a 9-0 victory over the Ragin' Cajuns in the tournament semifinals.
Akamine had her first bases-loaded shot in the third inning to give the Wildcats (21-6) a 5-0 lead over the 15th-ranked Cajuns. She added her second slam in the seventh as insurance, which wasn't needed behind the two-hit pitching of Taryne Mowatt.
The Cajuns (28-7), who had posted wins over Fresno State, second-ranked Arizona State, Notre Dame and Penn State to reach Sunday's semifinals, managed only Codi Runyan's second-inning single and a sixth-inning single by Lacey Bertucci off Mowatt (15-6). Mowatt struck out 14 of the 27 UL batters she faced.
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UL pitcher Brittany Cuevas (17-4) pitched a complete game in only her fourth loss of the season, giving up eight earned runs and fanning eight. Arizona had 10 hits, five of them for extra bases including Akamine's two homers.
Arizona scored once in the first off Cuevas when Kristie Fox's double in the left-center gap plated Caitlin Lowe, who singled to lead off the game. Lowe also led off the third with a double, and Chelsie Mesa had a bunt single and Fox drew a walk before Akamine homered over the left-field wall for the five-run lead.
Cuevas settled down after the homer and retired the next 13 batters she faced, setting down the side in order in the fourth through sixth innings before Lowe's one-out single in the seventh. An error and another walk to Fox set up Akamine with the bases loaded again, and she delivered over the left-center wall.
UL threatened in the second off Mowatt down 1-0 when Runyan singled and reached third on a sacrifice and an infield ground ball, but Mowatt struck out Meagan Godwin and Vallie Gaspard to end the threat. In the sixth, Verde drew a leadoff walk before Bertucci's single, but both were left stranded.
Arizona faced Oklahoma in Sunday's late championship game.
The Cajuns host Southern Mississippi in a 6 p.m. single game Thursday at Lamson Park before returning to Sun Belt Conference play Saturday-Sunday in a three-game home series against Western Kentucky.
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Please don't let that loss overshadow the great things this team has done in California. There were four pools of play with 4 teams in each pool. Only three teams were 3-0 coming out of pool play. The Lady Cajuns were one of them, Arizona was 2-1. The Cajuns beat Fresno State, Arizona State (ranked #2 in the nation last week) and Notre Dame. They also beat Penn State in a quarter-final game to be elligible to play Arizona in the semi-final. Considering that Michigan, Texas, Oklahoma, Washington, Florida State, DePaul, and North Carolina State are top rated teams and were also in the tournament, our ladies did a great job to be one of the best FOUR. Be proud of them. They brought some recognition to the state and to our school. Positive recognition.
There will be a single game Thursday at Cajun Park at 6 p.m. It is against Southern Miss. Be there. They need your support so there will not be a "let down".
This weekend, the Lady Cajuns play WKU in a three game conference set here at home.
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As for the other (Judy Garman) finalists, it's time to start paying attention to the Ragin' Cajuns. Their dismantling at the hands of Mowatt and Akamine aside, the Sun Belt powerhouses continue to prove themselves against a tough nonconference schedule.
Louisiana-Lafayette lost some power from the lineup after last season, but freshman pitcher Brittany Cuevas had been performing brilliantly as the ace before hitting trouble against Arizona.
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A few tournaments remain on the schedule, including a good field in Louisville next weekend, but the Judi Garman Classic at host Cal State Fullerton Sunday brought an unofficial close to the weeks of pool play and bracket play at the major nonconference get-togethers.
Jerry Laizure
D.J. Mathis came up big for the Sooners this weekend.And it was a fitting close to a time of year when logic fares about as well as a free-swinging freshman against Monica Abbott.
It started out simply enough in Fullerton. Maybe it wasn't an entirely logical progression, but it left little more than a dull ache at the back of the head.
No. 5 Arizona opened the first full day of the tournament by blanking NC State 2-0. Just before that game got started on one field in Fullerton, Arizona State's Katie Burkhart hurled a perfect game as the No. 4 Sun Devils scored a 3-0 win against Notre Dame. Soon thereafter, No. 7 Michigan beat No. 13 Washington 6-3, handing the Huskies the second of what would become three consecutive losses. Finally, as the first day came to a close, No. 6 Oklahoma knocked off Arizona 6-2.
Still following? Good. Nothing too confusing in all of that, even with a big win for the Sooners and a bad day for the Huskies. But keep the aspirin handy.
Friday, the second full day of play, began with Fresno State upsetting Arizona State. Then Fresno State lost to Notre Dame, the same team that hadn't managed to get a runner on base against Arizona State the day before. Not too long after that, No. 16 Louisiana-Lafayette handed Arizona State its second loss of the day, and NC State, which started all of this by losing to Arizona on Thursday, shut out Oklahoma.
All of which somehow left Penn State and DePaul alive in the championship bracket, while Arizona State, Washington and No. 8 Texas slunk off to the consolation bracket.
And we haven't even gotten to Saturday, when DePaul knocked off Fresno State to move within a win of the championship game, and Penn State, after losing a 6-5 thriller against Louisiana-Lafayette, rebounded to beat conference rival Michigan 5-2.
The crib sheet version of the tournament begins with the Sooners, who rallied from that loss against NC State to beat DePaul and Arizona on Sunday to claim the overall championship. Patty Gasso's team went out in style, getting its second win of the weekend against the Wildcats by an 11-0 margin that included a pair of home runs and six RBIs from Samantha Ricketts.
It's no surprise that the Sooners scored runs, even runs at the expense of the defending national champions, but a five-inning shutout for D.J. Mathis in the finale ought to scare everyone outside of Norman. The Sooners are counting on junior-college transfer Lauren Eckermann (who went the distance in an eight-inning win against DePaul earlier Sunday) to give them just enough of an ace to allow their bats to get the job done. If Mathis turns in a few more performances like Sunday, the Sooners suddenly have a great deal more depth at their supposedly weak spot.
Sarah Akamine took the loss in the circle for Arizona in the championship game, getting the call after Taryne Mowatt threw a gem to beat Louisiana-Lafayette earlier in the day. But if the struggle to find consistent innings behind Mowatt continues, Akamine put on a display with her bat against Lousiana-Lafayette that reminded everyone of what her role was supposed to be on this team, hitting a pair of grand slams and driving in eight runs in the game.
When the season began, Akamine was in the mix for at-bats, but an afterthought in Arizona's pitching plans, expected to fill in when Mowatt and fellow freshman Amanda Williams needed a break. Instead, she's thrown more than 50 innings while registering just 22 at-bats.
Perhaps she can't provide the same kind of production in the circle that Mowatt provided behind Alicia Hollowell last season, but she might be able to bring the same kind of midseason run production to the batting order that Mowatt did as a frequent designated player on the road to the national championship.
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