BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - It wasn't quite the way the University of Louisiana baseball team expected its opening game in the Sun Belt Conference baseball tournament to go.

An opposing team collected 11 hits, including three home runs, off Sun Belt co-Pitcher of the Year Hunter Moody, and the Cajuns didn't get a hit from anyone below the number four spot in the lineup.

But they're not going to throw one back, and because of the hot bat of Jonathan Lucroy and the pitching of Danny Farquhar, UL is unbeaten in the tournament and on to the second round.

Lucroy was responsible for six runs, including a first-inning grand-slam homer, and Farquhar threw four innings of one-hit relief as the Cajuns survived in an 8-7 nail-biter against seventh-seeded Arkansas State here Wednesday afternoon.

"Give them (ASU) a lot of credit," said Cajun coach Tony Robichaux. "They put a lot of good swings on Hunter, and not many teams have chased him.

"The only thing that brought us back was Luke's grand-slam and that Danny was able to keep them right there."

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Dan McDonald
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