The goal is the same for UL's 24th-ranked softball team today when the Ragin' Cajuns open play in the Sun Belt Conference Tournament.
They'll just be attacking that goal from a different angle.
The Cajuns (46-14) are the No. 2 seed in the tournament, which begins at 10 a.m. at Middle Tennessee's Blue Raider Softball Complex in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Troy and Western Kentucky open the event at 10 a.m., with UL meeting seventh-seeded North Texas at 12:30 p.m. in its first-round game.
For the first time since the Sun Belt inaugurated softball in 2000, the Cajuns are not the No. 1 seed. That honor went to Florida Atlantic (37-22), which claimed the regular-season title by one-half game over UL (16-8 to 15-8) thanks to a three-game sweep of nearly rival Florida International in last weekend's season finales.
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Dan McDonald
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