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The umpiring in this game was horrrrible. A lot of the fans were very vocal. I think Coach Robicheaux should have got out there to argue after the ump made the call that the ball hit to the right field line was fair. No way that ball landed in fair territory. That pretty much cost us the game.
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METAIRIE - UL's baseball squad pounced on Tulane standout righthander Matt Goebel for four runs in the second inning here Wednesday ... and didn't get any more the rest of the evening.
Eventually, that wasn't enough.
The Green Wave nipped and tugged at that lead over the next four innings and finally got enough offense going to escape with a 5-4 victory over the Cajuns in the first meeting for the teams in three years.
The Wave snapped a 4-4 tie in the bottom of the sixth on Warren McFadden's RBI double, but the key to victory for Tulane (25-10) was on the mound. Goebel, after allowing the four runs on five hits in the second, stranded runners in scoring position in each of the next two innings, and the Cajuns (26-8) were ineffective over the last five frames.
"That's a fifth-year senior with a competitive makeup," said Tulane coach Rick Jones of Goebel (6-1). "Some younger guy may not have kept his composure like that."
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"Goebel's been really good for them all year," said Cajun coach Tony Robichaux, whose team opened a stretch of eight road games in nine outings. "The bottom line is he located and gave his team a chance to win. He had a chance to crack and collapse after we got four on him, and he didn't."
Relievers Preston Claiborne and Daniel Latham combined over the final three innings, with Latham - Tulane's and Conference USA's all-time career saves leader - allowing two singles in the ninth before fanning Nolan Gisclair and Jefferies Tatford to lock up his eighth save.
The Cajuns, who head to Troy for a weekend Sun Belt Conference series beginning Friday, jumped ahead 1-0 one batter into the second inning when Jonathan Lucroy lined a Goebel fastball over the center field fence at cavernous Zephyr Field for his 11th homer of the season.
After an out, Tim Santiago, Justin Robichaux, Devon Bourque and Josh Logan had consecutive hits with Bourque's double and Logan's single plating runs. William Long's sacrifice fly scored Bourque for the 4-0 lead.
UL also got two hits in the third but left the bases loaded and got the leadoff runner to third in the fourth inning, but let Goebel off the hook.
"We had four chances to do something," Robichaux said. "We've got to be able to build on our lead. We left too many runners on base by not hitting in clutch situations, and give them credit, they got the clutch hit when they needed it. They were tougher than we were."
The Wave got single runs in the second and fourth innings, the first on Jonny Weiss' sacrifice fly in the second and the other on Weiss' ground ball in the fourth after Aja Barto's one-out triple in the left-field gap.
Hits by Brad Emaus and McFadden leading off the fifth inning set up Anthony Scelfo's sacrifice fly and a tying single by Nate Simon. Tulane would have taken the lead in that inning had UL right fielder Gisclair not thrown out Tim Guidry at the plate.
Gisclair threw out another runner one inning later when McFadden was pegged out trying to score on Scelfo's single, but his double had already given the Wave the lead for good.
"They held us where we needed to," Robichaux said, "and by us not building the lead they got to bring in better arms and better closers once it got close."
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After a shaky second inning in which Tulane starting pitcher Matt Goebel gave up four runs, it appeared Lafayette-Louisiana had his number.
The Cajuns didn't.
Goebel recovered, and second baseman Brad Emaus and right fielder Warren McFadden combined for six of the Green Wave's 12 hits in a 5-4 victory over the Ragin' Cajuns on Wednesday night at Zephyr Field.
Goebel allowed nine hits, five in the second inning when the Cajuns (26-8) scored all of their runs.
"When we got those four, we wanted to build on it, and he could have collapsed right there after that big inning," UL-Lafayette Coach Tony Robichaux said. "He held us at bay. We had many opportunities to build on it, but he made big pitches when he needed to and bypassed the middle innings."
After tying the score in the fifth, the Green Wave (25-10) took a 5-4 lead when Emaus started a sixth-inning rally with a single to center. Emaus scored from first base when McFadden hit an 0-2 pitch to the wall in right-center.
"We just never stopped," Emaus said. "We never gave up and played solid baseball. We just kept chipping away."
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Once the Green Wave took the lead, Preston Claiborne took over for Goebel (6-1) and retired the Cajuns in order in the seventh and eighth innings. In the ninth, Tulane went to closer Daniel Latham.
The Cajuns, with one out, got back-to-back singles off Latham. But he finished off the Cajuns by striking out Nolan Gisclair and Jefferies Tatford on 1-2 pitches.
"I thought tonight was probably one of the more complete games we've played, and one of the tougher games we've played," Tulane Coach Rick Jones said. "Lafayette is one of the best clubs we've played. We're down 4-0 and to stop them right there, to put up seven innings of goose eggs and to have more hits . . . we had some really good at-bats."
The Green Wave chased UL-Lafayette starter Brent Solich in the fifth after consecutive hits by Emaus and McFadden. Danny Farquhar (2-3), the Cajuns' third pitcher, got the loss.
The Green Wave worked its way back with a pair of runs in the fifth inning to tie the score at 4. The inning started with consecutive hits -- a single to left by Emaus and a ground-rule double by McFadden that Cajuns right fielder Nolan Gisclair failed to get with a diving effort near the line.
With runners at second and third, Anthony Scelfo's sacrifice fly to right scored Emaus, and McFadden advanced to third on an error by UL-Lafayette shortstop William Logan. McFadden scored on Nate Simon's grounder that got through the right side of the Cajuns' infield.
The Green Wave pulled to 4-2 with a run in the fourth inning. Just as it did in the second, Tulane needed only one hit to get the run in. Aja Barto tripled to the wall in left-center field with one out and scored on Jonny Weiss' grounder to short. Weiss drove in two runs.
Tulane, trailing 4-0, scored in the bottom of the second inning. Nate Simon walked on four pitches and moved to second on Jared Dyer's single. Barto moved Simon up a base with a fly ball to right, and Weiss got the RBI with a sacrifice fly to right field.
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You are right, the umpiring was bad, Coach Robe did go out on the foul ball, but the 3 knuckleheads in blue just couldn't find it in their hearts to make the correct call.
Soon as I heard that happen, I turned off the game. I had that bad feeling start sinking in. And while, it did "cost" us the game, I agree with the person who said earlier that's it's good to experience "having a game in the bag" and finding a way to lose it. Sure that call "cost" us the game, but when we only lost by one point, we could have found other ways to overcome the umps.
Hopefully with Troy and Az St comin up, we'll charge full speed ahead. And isn't it wonderful when we can complain about things like this and be "mad" when our team is still over .750 winning percentage. Gosh life is good as a UL baseball fan. :)
God Bless
GEAUX UL RAGIN CAJUNS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great game, few bad calls could have really changed things, but we did not field the ball cleanly and quit hitting.
That being said, As a part of our marketing at UL we must be more forward in asking not to use just "Lafayette" and/or "Lafayette-Louisiana(bet that cat was laughing all the way with that one) or ULL, etc.
I know the road will be longer and harder than maybe in other states but when the education levels are what they are around "Certain" parts of LSU, Nawalins, funroe, etc, What else can we expect?!?!?!?!?!?
1) Keep building the mo,(facility improvements)
2) keep buying your season tickets, and buy season tickets if you never have this year
3) donate time and labor(small and large projects) Call Gerald Hebert @962-0296 to say how you can help and then act on it
4) Money(many ways have been set up so that one can donate lump sums(small or large) or affordable amounts each month!
5)Talk positive and not defensive about our programs. Are they where they could be? NO Are they where we want them? NO Then lets ALL do what we and our friends/companies can, and little by little watch things grow.
Like Robe once said, "Players and Coaches will come and go, what the community decides to put into these facilities is their choice, and is theirs to be proud of, and stays in the community."
DaddyCajun
The call was horrible. The fly ball hit at least a foot outside of the first base line. Gisclair made a tremendous effort to catch it. Nobody knows if it cost us the game. First of all nobody knows what the batter might have done if it had been called properly. For sure it put runners in scoring position....Quote:
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I agree. The bottom line is that we didn't get it done. We had opportunities to get more runs earlier, but we didn't hit the ball.Quote:
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Time to put this one behind us and get ready for Troy.
how bout the half pump strike three... no wait that was a ball.... that one was PRICELESS.... needless to say the batter on the next pitch hits a 2rbi single
The officiating was disturbing. I was furious watching that game fold out the way it did. The cajuns started of with great momentum, unfortunatly they could not maintain. The greenies had some clutch hits so i cant say that the bad call in FOUL territory cost us the game, but it did start the bleeding. I do want to comment on how great the cajun fans were at this game. If you would of closed your eyes you could of sworn you were at the tigue. The cajun attendence was great and the fans were loud. I understand that N.O. is not that far, but i did not expect such a great turnout.