Lady Cajuns defeat first round opponent

[El Sidonio]

Troy is beatin MTSU 4-0 in the fifth. Look like we gonna have to make some Trojan gumbo in the first round of the softball tourney. Refresh my memory, was this one of the teams that gave us a hard time this year?

God Bless.

GEAUX UL!!!!!

[BirdofParadise]

Troy is beatin MTSU 4-0 in the fifth. Look like we gonna have to make some Trojan gumbo in the first round of the softball tourney. Refresh my memory, was this one of the teams that gave us a hard time this year?

God Bless.

GEAUX UL!!!!!

Troy beat the Cajuns in one of three games.

[El Sidonio]

Looks like we'll have to beat Troy once again. They bested MTSU. What surprised me was that WKU lost in the first round. They of all the teams we played this year in SBC action, gave us the hardest time.

God Bless

Geaux UL!!!!

[ulforlife]

we slipped up to Troy once this season in softball. we will not slip up again. when it's on the line the lady cajuns only get better.

[CajunCherokee]

Looks like the girls won the opener against Troy 4-0.

Who's next?

[NewsCopy]

MIAMI – Krystal Lewallen tossed a complete game shutout in her first career Division I postseason start helping lead the 15th-ranked Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns softball team to a 4-0 victory over Troy here in the quarterfinal round of the 2006 Sun Belt Conference Tournament. Lewallen, the senior pitcher transfer from Division II Northern Kentucky, took the pitching circle for the first time in Division I postseason and came through with one of her finer performances of the season. Lewallen struck out six Trojans batters and held Troy to only one hit through the first six innings. The right-handed hurler brought a no-hitter into the fifth inning Louisiana-Lafayette (46-10) posted its third straight blanking of an opponent extending the pitching staff’s current string of scoreless innings to 18 1/3 innings. UL improved to 20-0 all-time in Sun Belt Tournament play and advanced to Friday’s winner’s bracket final against tournament-host Florida International (30-26) at 3 p.m. (CDT). The Ragin’ Cajuns got one hit apiece from its 2-3-4-5 hitters. Danyele Gomez, the 2006 Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year, broke a scoreless tie in the third inning when she blasted an Angela Lopez offering to straightaway center field. The home run was Gomez’ 29th of the season and the 82nd of her career providing UL with the game-winning run. The rest of the story LOUISIANA SI

[NewsCopy]

Krystal Lewallen had never made a Division I postseason start before Thursday, but she made her presence known on the first day of the Sun Belt Conference Softball Championships. Lewallen fashioned a four-hit shutout against Troy's surprising Trojans, and the University of Louisiana maintained its all-time perfect record in Sun Belt tournament play with a 4-0 victory to advance to today's winners bracket finals. The 15th-ranked Ragin' Cajuns (46-10), the tournament's top seed for the sixth straight year, got their eventual winning run on Danyele Gomez' solo homer in the third inning. UL then put it away with three unearned runs in the sixth to improve to 20-0 all-time in the league tournament. "There's a lot of parity in this league," said Cajun coach Stefni Lotief, "and sometimes you need one to bounce your way. It was pretty intense." UL advanced to today's 3 p.m. (CDT) winners' finale against second-seeded and host Florida International, which beat North Texas 4-2 in Thursday's other quarterfinal at University Park. The winner of that game moves into Saturday's championship round, while the loser will have to win three games Saturday to claim the title. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com