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ULM homers in the bottom of the 7th to WIN 1-0 over Louisiana.
These ladies are not Freshmen any longer as it is the very end of the season, so how can a team still play soooooooooo inconsistant?
They are making their own bed and I think a bed bug just bit them(UL).
Now they must win tomorrow and Troy must lose again tomorrow.
DaddyCajun
This is awful. I am ashamed, and there is nothing anyone can tell me that will convince me otherwise. As much as I would like to say they have a good chance in the regionals, this weekend and last weekend at North Texas prove otherwise.Quote:
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unreal, huh?Quote:
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You know your mission, you are playing possibly the worst softball team in the nation........you dont get it done...
I mentioned this on Delphi, you cant lay this at the feet of the young lady pitching, she held ulm scoreless thru 6.... Where the he.ll were our sticks. We drop 30 on Houston in a double header, and we cant scratch against Pecan Island JV? cmon.....
Im sure we arent saying anything Coaches Loitief arent saying right about now...The girls have played so well this year.
We do it again tomorrow!!! :)
Z.
Like Z said it wasn't pitching. Anyone consider that the Ladies see such good pitching in practice they might struggle against poor pitching? Like one big off speed weekend :???:Quote:
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However in the Mesay Cliché department.
If freshman are no longer freshmen . . . are seniors semi-pro?
No, dey be full PRO. Eder dey be prego' or no prego'!
knuckle head, Turb.
DaddyCajun.~.
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MONROE - UL's softball team saw the Sun Belt Conference regular-season championship - their private possession since the league inaugurated the sport - sail over the left-field fence at the ULM Softball Complex Saturday afternoon.
ULM catcher Heather Williams took the first pitch in the bottom of the seventh inning to that spot, providing the host Warhawks with a 1-0 nightcap upset over the 24th-ranked Ragin' Cajuns.
The second-game loss, after the Cajuns had won the opener 5-3, deprived UL (45-14, 14-8 Sun Belt) of a golden opportunity in the league race. The Cajuns entered the final weekend of league play one-half game behind Troy in the conference standings, and the host Trojans did their part by falling to South Alabama 5-1 in the second game of their Saturday twinbill.
UL could have put itself within one win in today's series wrapup of a seventh straight regular-season crown.
Now, because of the loss and Florida Atlantic's 7-1 home win over Florida International Saturday, the best the Cajuns can do in the league race is second place.
"That's just not good enough," said a disappointed UL coach Stefni Lotief after the abrupt nightcap loss, one that turned into an unlikely pitchers' duel between first-time Cajun starter Amanda Hill and ULM backup Kandace Causey.
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Hill (1-1) did her job for six innings, limiting the Warhawks (24-37, 4-19 Sun Belt) to five hits and didn't walk a batter while fanning three. However, Williams caught up with the freshman's first pitch in the bottom of the seventh and lifted it over Desi Chatman's head in left field and over the fence for the game's only run.
Williams added to her team lead with her 13th of the year.
"You can't give up one like that in that situation," Lotief said. "You've got to finish. The pitcher's job is to hold them off, and the hitters' jobs are to do enough for you to win."
UL didn't do that in the nightcap, getting only two singles off Causey (3-7) and rarely threatening. Chatman's two-out single in the first inning and Karli Hubbard's two-out infield single in the third were the only safeties for the Cajuns, who also hurt themselves with two base running gaffes.
Chatman was trapped going back to first in an aborted double-steal attempt after her first-inning single, and pinch runner Shari Sigur was thrown out after a late jump attempting to steal in the seventh inning.
"We hadn't made base running errors all year," said co-head coach Michael Lotief, "and we made some today like we were back in tee-ball. There's no excuses for that."
Hill had worked her way out of several jams, stranding five runners in scoring position before Williams' game-winner.
The Cajuns had come back from a 2-1 deficit in the opening-game win, getting a pair of runs in both the fifth and seventh innings in support of freshman starting pitcher Brittany Cuevas (30-7). Lacey Bertucci had an RBI single and a passed ball plated Vallie Gaspard in the fifth, and Melissa Verde's single and Codi Runyan's ground ball pushed across the seventh-inning runs.
Those last two became big when ULM pushed across a bottom-of-the-seventh run on Heather Hanson's RBI double and had the winning run at the plate before Jamie Liles grounded back to Cuevas for the final out.
Cuevas fanned eight and scattered seven hits, the biggest a two-run double by Lindsey Taylor in the fourth. That came after UL had taken a 1-0 first-inning lead off ULM starter Lindsay Rittenhouse (15-19) on Chatman's RBI double.
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If I had to blame it on something, it would be inconsistency/lack of rhythm. I'm not really sure exactly what that means, it just seems like the right word to describe a team that has enough talent to beat the #2 team in the nation while losing to one of the worst. Maybe these girls needed a good dose of humility that they've received this season. Maybe they needed to realize that if they don't keep their heads in the game, they're not invincible.
One thing that keeps me going, during this season, is the fact that there are hundreds of teams out there in DI softball that would love to be having a "down" season as we're having, with a 45-14 record (14-8) in conference. I guess that we just have such high expectations for our program, that anything less that absolutely dominating the SBC is frustrating.
Only thing I'm not too sure about is how well we'll do in regionals. We have the talent to go far into the postseason, but our inconsistency could possibly hurt us.
anyhoo.......
Y'all have a good one and God Bless,
Sid
p.s.- Don't forget that if this issue is one of our biggest problems, then we lead truly blessed lives
p.s.s.- I wouldn't mind it though if the good Lord blessed us with the SBC Conference Championship :p
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MONROE - UL's softball team came up one-half game short in its quest for a seventh straight Sun Belt Conference regular-season title. But the Ragin' Cajuns will be looking to continue an even longer success streak this week.
The Cajuns have won all seven of the previous Sun Belt Tournaments since the league began the sport in 2000, and they'll enter this week's tournament in Murfreesboro, Tenn., as the second seed.
UL (15-8) will meet seventh-seeded North Texas (10-14) in the opening round of the double-elimination tournament at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, after third-seeded Troy (15-9) and sixth-seeded Western Kentucky (11-13) open the tourney at 10 a.m.
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Regular-season champion Florida Atlantic (16-8) faces in-state rival Florida International (9-14) and Middle Tennessee (14-9) meets South Alabama (12-11) in first-round games on the other side of the bracket.
UL actually gets a break in the draw, if regular- season results mean anything. The Cajuns went 8-1 against teams on its side of the bracket, and went 7-7 against teams on the other side.
The Sun Belt Tournament is actually two double-elimination tournaments, one on each side, that will qualify a team for a title game on Saturday. Time for that regionally- televised game (Cox Sports in Louisiana) will be determined by the number of teams reaching Saturday play.
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MONROE - Less than 24 hours after its most disappointing moment of the 2007 season, UL's softball team bounced back Sunday afternoon to regain momentum heading into the Sun Belt Conference Tournament.
The Ragin' Cajuns, who lost their final chance at a seventh straight Sun Belt regular-season title thanks to a walk-off home run in the nightcap of Saturday's doubleheader, jumped out to a 9-1 lead over host UL Monroe and went on to a 9-3 victory in the regular-season finale.
The Cajuns (46-14, 15-8), with the win and Troy's 6-2 Sunday loss to South Alabama, finish second behind Florida Atlantic (16-8) by one-half game in the race for the regular-season title. UL will be the second seed in the Sun Belt Tournament beginning Wednesday in Murfreesboro, Tenn., and will face seventh-seeded North Texas at 12:30 p.m. in the opener of the double-elimination tournament.
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Junior Holly Tankersley provided most of Sunday's margin with a three-run homer in the second inning off ULM starter Kandace Causey, a solo homer in the fourth and an RBI single in the fifth.
"It's always good to come back in a third game," said Tankersley, who laced a change-up over the right-center wall in the second and took an outside fast ball from reliever Lindsay Rittenhouse over the left-field wall in the fourth. "It keeps us motivated. We knew we should have had all of these games and the second game yesterday didn't go our way. It was important for us to score early and get it going."
Her efforts helped UL score multiple runs in four different innings, after being limited to two hits by Causey (3-8) in Saturday's 1-0 second-game loss.
"We took a different approach at the plate," said Cajun co-head coach Michael Lotief. "Our approach is to attack and believe in yourself. It wasn't anything we told them, they just went out and played the game."
The offensive attack provided plenty of support for Brittany Cuevas, who scattered six hits and fanned seven while giving up only single runs in three different innings. Cuevas (31-7) extended her school record for wins by a freshman and moved into a tie for fourth on the Cajuns' all-time single-season victory list.
UL took advantage of Causey's wildness right off the bat, with three walks, two singles and a sacrifice fly setting up two runs on Desi Chatman's RBI single and Melissa Verde's sacrifice fly. One inning later, Vallie Gaspard drew a leadoff walk and Karli Hubbard reached on a ground ball, and Tankersley followed with her 17th homer of the season.
That number went to 18 two innings later when she and Lacey Bertucci had back-to-back homers to make it 7-1. Hubbard and Tankersley added back-to-back RBI singles in the fifth, and the host Warhawks (24-38, 4-20) only avoided a run-rule loss with a double-steal run in the bottom of the fifth.
"We needed this to realize who we are and to keep moving forward," Tankersley said. "We know what we're capable if we go out there and take care of business and keep picking each other up."
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No use crying over spilled milk - or lost opportunities.
UL's softball team was ready to move on Monday and begin preparations for postseason play.
The Ragin' Cajuns will be in the same position next Monday, getting ready for a different level of the postseason, but they're hoping the mood will be a lot better.
The UL squad had a chance to claim the program's seventh straight Sun Belt Conference regular-season title over the weekend with a sweep at UL Monroe. That didn't happen, with the hosts taking a 1-0 upset in the middle game of the three-game series.
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The loss left the Cajuns one-half game back of a share of the title claimed by Florida Atlantic - a team the Cajuns whipped three straight times in Boca Raton, Fla., in the regular season. It's probably that fact that's the most galling, having to watch the FAU squad accept the regular-season championship trophy at tonight's league banquet in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
That event precedes the Sun Belt Tournament, which begins Wednesday morning on the Middle Tennessee campus. And while nobody on the UL squad has used words like redemption or revenge, it's on everyone's minds.
"This is one of our goals that we set, to win the conference tournament," said Cajun assistant coach Lacy Prejean. "Over the next three weeks, this is what you work all year for, what you hope to be doing this time of year."
UL (46-14) has won all seven previous Sun Belt Tournament titles, all of them just for pride since the league winner does not receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Next year, the tournament winner will get an automatic bid.
That hasn't stopped the Cajuns from getting to the NCAA's in each of those years - in 16 of the last 17 years, in fact. And Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m., after the Sun Belt Tournament ends Saturday, UL's name will pop up again when the NCAA Division I Softball Committee announces the 64-team NCAA Tournament field on ESPNews.
The Cajuns are almost definitely the only team from the league that will be in the NCAA Tournament, and that is some consolation. Winning the Sun Belt Tournament would be even more consolation, and UL is still the team to beat despite its number two seed entering Wednesday's 12:30 p.m. opener against seventh-seeded North Texas.
"We stopped worrying about the conference standings and told our kids to just focus on playing the game the right way," said co-head coach Michael Lotief. "That's all we need to do. We're still going through some growing pains, but as soon as this team learns how to be consistent and keep their focus, it's going to be a lot of fun."
The league tournament is actually two four-team double-elimination events which each qualify one winner for a single-game championship matchup on Saturday. UL faces North Texas in the opener, with Troy and Western Kentucky also on the Cajuns' side of the bracket.
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