Cajuns trailed 3-0 but come back on a 6 run 4th inning.
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Cajuns trailed 3-0 but come back on a 6 run 4th inning.
Great game today. We finally took advantage of the opposing team errors. Well I guess things take care of itself when your opponent commits 4 errors in key situations.
Maybe Stony Brook had to much Crawfish last night. If so, lets bring them out again tonight.
I thought I would post this while listening to the Cajuns wrap up their Sun Belt Conference championship season against UALR ...
Siena does have a starting pitcher that could be quite dangerous, preseason MAAC pitcher of the year Ryan Bitter. For those that do not know, Siena is a conference rival of Marist.
Siena is 3-1 on the season after Bitter outdueled preseason All-American Thomas Diamond today in a 5-2 Siena win. Bitter scattered five hits over eight innings, yielding only one earned run. Diamond was touched up for nine hits and five earned runs over 6 1/3 innings.
Siena also took 2/3 on the road against Charlotte last weekend.
It will be interesting to see if Bitter can come back and throw Wednesday against the Cajuns after throwing eight innings today.
Brian
Isn't Marist where coach John Szefc did so good?Quote:
Originally posted by GoneGolfin
Siena is a conference rival of Marist.
<blockquote><p align=justify><b>Stony Brook is victim of solid pitching again</b>
LOUISIANA La. — UL took advantage of several Stony Brook miscues, and used another outstanding pitching performance, as the Ragin Cajuns completed a three-game sweep of the Seawolves, winning 9-0 here Sunday afternoon.
The sweep by the Cajuns was their first three-game sweep of an opponent since winning three straight from New Mexico St. (April 19-22) in 2002.
“Baseball is really plain and simple,” Cajun coach Tony Robichaux said. “You have to pitch, play defense, and get timely hitting, and if you fail in one of those areas, then you become vulnerable.
“In the Texas State series last weekend, we didn’t get timely hitting in one game, and we didn’t play good enough defense in another. This weekend, we improved in some areas, but we still need to get better.”
The Cajuns (5-2) drew first blood in the bottom half of the third inning when Leonard Guerrero doubled to lead off the inning, moved to third on a bunt single by Justin Merendino, and scored on a push bunt off the bat of Dallas Morris to give the Cajuns a 1-0 advantage.
The Cajuns added three unearned runs in the bottom of the fifth, making the most of two Stony Brook errors in the frame, and that was more than enough for Josh Kohrs.
The JC transfer from St. Charles, Mo., picked up his first win in his first-ever start in a Cajun uniform, throwing seven shutout innings, giving up only four hits, fanning six and issuing no walks before giving way to Jered Salazar for two scoreless innings of relief.
“I was nervous,” admitted Kohrs. “The first few innings, it took me awhile to calm down, but once I settled in, I felt pretty good.
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“I thought I had pretty good stuff today. The knuckleball was hit hard a couple of times, but everything else was working for me, and I’m just happy that I was able to help the team to a win.”
Stony Brook (1-5) got a runner as far as second base only twice in the contest, and the Cajun pitching staff held the Seawolves scoreless in 26 of the 27 innings played over the weekend.
“We were supposed to pitch well and win this weekend,” said Robichaux. “That’s not being condescending to their team, it’s just that they’ve been in the gym hitting whiffle balls a lot, and we’re ahead of them.”
The Cajuns added a single run in the seventh, and four more in the eighth, to capture the shutout win.
Merendino, who hit leadoff in place of the injured John Coker, scored in each of those innings, and went 4-for-5 while also scoring three times. For the weekend, Merendino went 6-for-10, drawing three walks and scoring five times.
“I’m seeing the ball pretty well right now, but we have a lot of guys that can hurt you offensively, and I think we’ll score a lot of runs this year,” Merendino said. “We have guys both at the bottom and top of our lineup that can run, and I think speed will play a huge part in our offense this year.”
The Cajuns return to the diamond Tuesday and Wednesday nights, playing host to Siena in a two-game series.
“Toward the end of the game, we started to earn some runs, instead of being given runs,” Robichaux said.
“You can’t go home and think that winning the game 3-0 on a throwing error is anything to hang your hat on.
“But we did some good things in the last few innings, we did some good things in the series, and now we just need to continue to get better and improve as a ball club every game.”
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Are they both in Caleeforneeah? As per Gov. Terminator
Yes. Szefc was the Marist head coach when the Red Foxes came down to Lafayette for the 2000 NCAA Baseball Regional.
Brian
UNO beat Siena 23 to 3 on Sunday after losing 5 to 2 on Saturday against Bitter.
<b>PREGAME</b><blockquote><p align=justify><b>Louisiana tries to keep its bats hot against Siena.</b>
LOUISIANA La. – Both Louisiana and Siena College will be looking for the answer to one question tonight when the clubs open a two-game baseball series at Moore Field.
The question: How will their teams fare when their known pitching quantities are not available?
The Ragin’ Cajuns (5-2) are coming off a weekend series against Stony Brook in which they got three stellar starting mound performances from Kevin Ardoin, Kraig Schambough and Josh Kohrs. They’re the front-runners for the squad’s weekend pitching rotation slots after holding the visiting Seawolves to three runs and striking out 28 in three games.
Siena, meanwhile, used a lot of arms in a three-game series against New Orleans that wrapped up Monday night, and will play its fourth and fifth games in as many days when the clubs meet tonight and Wednesday in a pair of 6:30 p.m. games at Moore Field.
In other words, both teams may go short stints with several pitchers in these two games.
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“We know we’re going to throw a lot of people,” said Cajun coach Tony Robichaux. “The good side is that Kevin set a good pace for us Friday and the next two guys came in and did a great job. The down side when that happens is you don’t get to develop other arms.
“We’re going to try to get innings for a lot of guys to keep them in a rhythm. They may only get one or two innings, but it’s quality instead of quantity that we’re looking for.”
Siena’s Saints (3-3) took two of three from UNC Charlotte to open their season and took a 5-2 win in the opener of their UNO series Saturday before falling 23-3 on Sunday and XXX on Monday.
“Obviously, we don’t expect to win many games when we take our Southern trip,” said Siena coach Tony Rossi. “It’s to get our kids out and play and see what we have when we get back up north. We played very well up until Sunday. But we’ll be down in numbers as far as pitching goes.”
In that Sunday game, UNO scored in all but one inning and totaled 22 hits.
“Until then we were definitely happy with our pitching,” Rossi said. “Everybody got to get in and play some quality innings Sunday, so hopefully we got that out of our system.”
Junior righthander Josh Burnett (0-0, 9.00) is slated to start tonight’s game, making his second appearance after missing much of his sophomore season with a shoulder injury.
Six-foot-seven sophomore Ken Grant (0-1), coming off “Tommy John” surgery in 2003 after being one of the Saints’ conference starters as a freshman, is slated for Wednesday.
Siena, a preseason pick to finish fifth in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, is led offensively by senior second baseman Kevin Roberts (.333, 3 RBI) and senior outfielder Shawn Hampton (.333). The two are among seven position starters returning from last year’s 17-35-1 squad.
Junior righthander Thad Montgomery (0-0, 0.00), who threw one perfect inning over the weekend against Stony Brook, is scheduled to start Tuesday for a club that has a 1.56 team ERA this year along with playing errorless ball in the weekend’s three games.
Siena (3-3) at Cajuns (5-2)
Today, 6:30 p.m., Moore Field, Lafayette
TICKETS: Available at park beginning 90 minutes prior to first pitch. RADIO: KPEL-AM 1420 with Jay Walker and Steve Peloquin, 6:15 p.m.. TELEVISION: none.
PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS: UL Lafayette – Thad Montgomery (6-1, 195, Jr., RH, 0-0, 0.00 ERA). Siena - Josh Burnett (6-3, 190, Jr., RH, 0-0, 9.00 ERA).
OFFENSIVE LEADERS: UL Lafayette – 2B Justin Merendino (5-8, 170, Jr., .429, 3 RBI); CF John Coker (5-8, 175, Jr., .364, 6-7 SB); SS Micah Cockrell (6-1, 195, Jr., .346, 3 RBI). Siena - 2B Kevin Roberts (5-7, 155, Sr., .333, 3 RBI); OF Shawn Hampton (6-0, 190, Sr., .333); OF Matt Gidaly (5-9, 170, So., .330, 2 RBI).
SERIES: The teams played a three-game series at Moore Field in the 2001 season, with the Cajuns winning all three by scores of 16-0, 8-1 and 3-0.
NEXT: Cajuns travel to face Wichita State in a three-game series Friday at 3 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m. at Eck Stadium in Wichita, Kan. Next home game is a makeup game on Wednesday, March 10, against Nicholls State at 6:30 p.m. at Moore Field.
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<blockquote><p align=justify><b>Cajun bats rip Siena’s pitching</b>
LOUISIANA La. – Dallas Morris had been waiting for Tuesday night. So had Phillip Hawke and Adam Massiatte. And coach Tony Robichaux was ready for it to happen.
That whole group had been anxious for their Louisiana baseball team to bust out offensively, and they did on Tuesday with Siena College the unfortunate victim.
The Ragin' Cajuns posted their highest run total since the end of the 2001 season and rapped out 19 hits, nine of them for extra bases, in rolling to an easy 19-6 win over the New York-based Saints in the opener of a two-game series.
“Our hitters did a good job swinging,” said Robichaux. “They were pitching us away and our guys were taking it that way. I thought they did a lot of good things at the plate.”
The Cajuns (6-2), winners of four straight, will wrap up the short Siena series tonight, with righthander Jeff Morgan (0-0) slated to start opposite Saints righthander Ken Grant (0-1) for the 6:30 p.m. Moore Field contest.
Robichaux’s troops hadn’t had more than 12 hits in any of their first seven games, but they had that through four innings on Tuesday and had a 12-2 lead by the time starting pitcher Thad Montgomery finished his predetermined three innings.
Every member of the Cajun starting lineup hit safely, and that ninesome totaled 18 hits as part of UL’s highest hit total since last season’s UNO series.
The Cajuns had their highest run production since a 20-16 win at New Mexico State, and tallied their most runs in a non-Las Cruces game since the 19-8 win over Houston in the 1999 NCAA Regional championship game.
Morris was one of the leaders of that hit parade with the squad’s first four-hit game of the year, including extra-base RBI hits in each of the first two innings off Siena loser Joshua Burnett (0-1).
“Hitting’s contagious,” said Morris, who got his four hits in five innings before leaving with a tight hamstring. “Once you start we have lots of guys that can keep it going. It’s good for all of us to get on the same page.”
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Hawke also had a pair of extra-base hits, including a towering three-run homer in the third inning that made it 12-2. The junior first baseman entered the game hitting only .211.
“That felt nice,” he said. “We’ve had some guys coming back that everybody’s looking to, and we’ve been trying to find our swing. Tonight we played loose.”
Three of the first four Cajun hitters had extra-base hits in a five-run first inning, and Massiatte had the first of his three hits – his first hits of the season – with an RBI triple. He also had a two-run single in the fifth when the Cajuns added three more runs.
By that time, Montgomery (1-0) had finished three innings of two-hit ball in getting the win. Siena (3-4) took advantage of Montgomery’s third-inning wildness (two walks, two wild pitches and a balk)to get two third-inning runs without a hit, but that and Tony Cipolla’s fifth-inning RBI single were the Saints’ only runs until a three-run uprising in the ninth.
Relievers Ian Pecoraro, Aaron Hays and Bubba Olivier went the rest of the way, with Pecoraro striking out six of the 12 batters he faced in a three-inning stint. Hays had a perfect seventh before Olivier gave up four hits in the ninth.
“They (Siena) started swinging better at the end,” Robichaux said. “They’re like we were last week … they just need to play more, and the more they play and the more live pitching they see, the better they’re going to get.”
Rhett Buras capped the Cajuns’ scoring with a line-drive three-run homer in the eighth that provided a 19-3 lead, before Cipolla got his third hit of the game with a two-run double in the ninth.
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