The Book 2007 Ragin' Cajun Baseball

[IHateLaState]

_ BASEBALL AT THE TIGUE TONIGHT BABY!

Bring everybody you know and let's pack the house! _

Privateers lose tonight at Troy... We take care of business and we be "dogpilin" tomorrow baby!!!!!!!!!!!

[RaginDave]

_ Privateers lose tonight at Troy... We take care of business and we be "dogpilin" tomorrow baby!!!!!!!!!!! _

We did our part. Cajuns win 13-3!!!!!

Just keep winning baby!!!

[Jacob81]

UNO down 6-4 with 3 outs to go. Cajuns win 13-3. I can smell a trophy.

This would be one of the most dominate Championships ever!!! Am I right? how often do teams win conference a week early in college baseball? ( please excuse Oral Roberts from the previous statement).

[RedBug58]

_ UNO down 6-4 with 3 outs to go. Cajuns win 13-3. I can smell a trophy.

This would be one of the most dominate Championships ever!!! Am I right? how often do teams win conference a week early in college baseball? ( please excuse Oral Roberts from the previous statement). _

This was a very impressive game tonight. Great pitching, good hitting, (two mammouth home runs from Scott Hawkins), & a very large crowd. I think Farquar had 13 or 14 strike outs. It was a lot of fun.

[Jacob81]

_ UNO down 6-4 with 3 outs to go. Cajuns win 13-3. I can smell a trophy.

This would be one of the most dominate Championships ever!!! Am I right? how often do teams win conference a week early in college baseball? ( please excuse Oral Roberts from the previous statement). _

ball game. Troy 6 UNO 4. SSSWWWWWEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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UL’s baseball team is already assured of a trophy, and it’s all but a foregone conclusion that the Ragin’ Cajuns will be dog-piling at Moore Field either Saturday or Sunday. All that has to happen is for UL to win one of its remaining two weekend home games against Arkansas-Little Rock, and the Cajuns have their second Sun Belt Conference crown in three years -- but the first that they’ve won on their Moore Field home turf. And nobody’s more aware of that than the Cajun players. Several have talked about their desires to win the title in front of the home fans, giving them a reward for the devotion they’ve shown during the season. UL’s averaging nearly 2,400 fans per home game this season, and should draw two of their largest crowds of the season Saturday and Sunday for Alumni Weekend festivities and Senior Day/Graduation Day activities. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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Friday's 13-3 home win over Arkansas-Little Rock puts UL's baseball team within arm's reach of its second Sun Belt Conference regular-season crown in three seasons. In fact, the Cajuns are assured of at least a share of this year's league title entering today's 2:05 p.m. contest at Moore Field. The Cajuns, who won the regular-season title on the road two years ago, need only one win out of today's game and Sunday's home finale for the outright title even before the final series of the season next Thursday-Saturday at New Orleans. UL moved into this position with Friday's win coupled with Troy's rain-delayed 6-4 home victory Friday night over second-place New Orleans. The Cajuns are five games ahead of UNO, Troy and Middle Tennessee in the standings. "Winning it here's in the back of everybody's minds," said designated hitter Scott Hawkins, whose two home runs Friday gave him the team lead with 15 this year. "But we have to take care of what we have to do before we worry about anyone else." If the Cajuns do lock up the title today or Sunday, it would be the first time that UL has clinched a conference crown at home since at least 1992, the first year the Cajuns were members of the Sun Belt. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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Against reigning Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of the Week David Klumpp, UL's baseball team knew it would be important to score early Friday night. The Ragin' Cajuns turned it over to an early long-ball attack, one that gave the hosts enough of a bulge to get Klumpp out of the game, and coasted the rest of the way to a 13-3 victory over Arkansas-Little Rock in the opener of their Sun Belt Conference series at Moore Field. Scott Hawkins and Matt Hicks had solo home runs in the second and third innings to bring UL back from an early 1-0 deficit, and the Cajuns took advantage of a tiring Klumpp and two Trojan relievers to put up 11 runs in the final three innings. Hawkins and Hicks also provided some of that late scoring, with Hawkins lacing a first-pitch two-run homer during a three-run seventh inning and Hicks had his first career triple to plate two runs in a five-run eighth inning. "We knew they were throwing lefthanders all weekend," Hawkins said. "In practice on Thursday, instead of our regular batting practice with the coaches throwing, Chase Richard and Dane Maxwell (UL redshirt lefthanders) threw live to us. That helped us out." The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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LOUISIANA La. - Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns baseball team entered Saturday’s game needing to win one game to clinch the 2007 Sun Belt Conference regular season championship. The Cajuns (37-13, 20-6 SBC) collected a season high 24 hits en route to a 28-3 victory over Arkansas-Little Rock. For the Cajuns, the championship is their second in three year. UL claimed the 2005 SBC regular season title and fell one game shy of repeating in 2006 placing second behind Troy. The Cajuns left little doubt on Saturday afternoon as they scored a new school record 28 runs in the game. The Cajuns scored in every inning except the first inning and put together three six-run innings and a pair of four-run innings. Seven different Cajuns players had multiple hits in the game. The Cajuns were led by Jonathan Lucroy. The junior catcher finished the day 4-for-6 with a pair of homeruns. He scored four runs and drove in a pair of runs. Devon Bourque, Scott Hawkins, Matt Hicks and Josh Logan all collected three hits on the day. Bourque, Hicks and Logan all doubled, while Hawkins added his team-leading 16th homer of the year. Logan finished a homerun shy of the cycle as he singled, doubled and tripled. The rest of the story Chris Whitehead RaginCajuns.com

[RaginEsquire06]

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28 - 3.....you've gotta be kid'n me!? Wow...

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Winning the Sun Belt Conference baseball title Saturday provided another high point in a weekend that was already special to the UL baseball program. Approximately 80 former Ragin' Cajun players were at Moore Field Saturday and were honored pregame as part of Alumni Weekend festivities. For some, it was a rare trip back to their alma mater. "Remembering what this place was, and to look at it right now, it's awesome," said former Cajun Craig Fryman (1980-81). "It's been 26 years, but this is equivalent to the top minor-league atmospheres. It's somewhere to bring the family and the kids." Fryman came in this weekend from his Bellbrook, Ohio, hometown to see former teammates. He'd made a previous trip in the fall of 2000 as part of UL's College World Series celebration. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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Tony Robichaux has no desire to coach football, but those who listen to him know that he often uses gridiron metaphors. Before Saturday's UL game, he didn't talk to his team about locking up the Sun Belt Conference baseball title for the home fans and the gathering of alumni players. Instead, he cautioned his squad about not fumbling the ball. The Cajuns knew they had a fourth-and-short inside the 1-yard-line, needing only to fulfill its heavy-favorite role, not get blind-sided by a blitz, punch in one more touchdown and get one more win before riding off into the post-season. Nobody imagined the Cajuns getting that touchdown and three more on the way to Saturday's 28-3 victory that ensured another trophy and cleared up any doubt about that post-season journey. "I don't know about all that football terminology," Robichaux said, "but I know football's about focus, too. Our focus started up at Monroe last weekend, and once our guys saw how close the goal line was, they took care of things." The rest of the story Dan McDonald 289-6318 dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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Living up to expectations can be difficult. But not, apparently, if you're a part of UL's baseball team. The Ragin' Cajuns entered Saturday needing one win to lock up the Sun Belt conference regular-season title, and promptly put up a performance for the ages. Never before had a Cajun baseball team produce offensively as this year's squad did on Saturday, rolling past Arkansas-Little Rock 28-3 in a record-setting effort that set off the much-awaited dog-pile in the middle of the Moore Field infield. "This means a lot," said Cajun catcher Jonathan Lucroy after unpiling from the human mass that developed once relief pitcher Andrew Laughter forced a game-ending fly ball from UALR cleanup hitter Ryan Gotcher. "We were supposed to get it done today, and we knew we had to take advantage when we had the opportunity." The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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One of UL baseball coach Tony Robichaux's credos is for his players to be ready when opportunity knocks. Kyle Mickles has been waiting and waiting and waiting for his opportunity, and it came early Sunday morning. The senior from Baton Rouge found out after the Cajuns' chapel service that he was getting the ball, getting the mound start for UL's final regular-season home game, and he responded. Mickles turned in five solid innings in his first collegiate start, and set the Cajuns up for a 9-5 victory over Arkansas-Little Rock in the finale of their Sun Belt Conference Series. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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Winning the Sun Belt Conference baseball title provided the high point of a weekend that was already special to the UL baseball program. Approximately 80 former Ragin' Cajun players were at Moore Field Saturday and were honored pregame as part of Alumni Weekend festivities. For some, it was a rare trip back to their alma mater. "Remembering what this place was, and to look at it right now, it's awesome," said former Cajun Craig Fryman (1980-81). "It's been 26 years, but this is equivalent to the top minor-league atmospheres. It's somewhere to bring the family and the kids." The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com