The Book 2007 Ragin' Cajun Baseball

[GoneGolfin]

Cajuns finished last year in the top 20 in attendance in the country, so I wouldn't think attendance would necessarily keep us from hosting.

The Cajuns finished #28 in attendance last season (averaged 2091). But when you are considering the attendance metric in evaluating a hosting candidate, you also need to evaluate it in the context of the regional schools that are vying for those precious hosting slots. The following regional (Mississippi/Arkansas/Louisiana/Texas) schools had better attendance than the Cajuns last season.

LSU (7320) (not a hosting candidate at this point of the season)
Arkansas (7123) (likely host)
Mississippi State (6918) (likely host)
Texas (5380) (likely host)
Mississippi (4854) (could host)
Texas A&M (4478) (likely host)
Rice (4193) (likely host)
Southern Mississippi (3309) (not a hosting candidate at this point of the season)
Baylor (3013) (not a hosting candidate at this point of the season)
Tulane (2888) (not a hosting candidate at this point of the season)
Houston (2733) (not a hosting candidate at this point of the season)
Texas Tech (2606) (not a hosting candidate at this point of the season)

Among the six likely/could host schools above (at this point of the season) in the region (Mississippi/Arkansas/Louisiana/Texas), the Cajuns are seventh in attendance. And they are well short of that sixth attendance slot (Rice).

Brian

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UL senior outfielder/first baseman Jefferies Tatford earned his second honor in as many days Tuesday when he was named the state's Hitter of the Week by the La. Sports Writers Association. Tatford, named the Sun Belt Conference's Player of the Week Monday, batted .429 in leading the Cajuns to a 3-1 mark last week. He had three home runs as part of his 6-of-14 week, including a home run in each of the Cajuns' three weekend Sun Belt games against Western Kentucky. His grand-slam in that series finale helped bring UL back from a 60 deficit to a 10-6 win. The Lafayette and St. Thomas More product had nine RBI and four runs in the four games along with a 1.071 slugging percentage and a .579 on-base mark.

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METAIRIE - It's been almost three years since UL and Tulane played a baseball game, so it's probably not that big a deal that the teams waited one more day. Now, though, it's the Ragin' Cajuns that hold more national rankings heading into tonight's 6:30 p.m. rain-delayed game at Zephyr Field. UL (26-7) and Tulane (24-10) had been scheduled to play Tuesday night, but heavy rains early in the day in the New Orleans area forced a postponement. Since neither team had games scheduled this week other than their weekend series, the game was moved back to tonight. The teams haven't met since April 21, 2004, when Tulane rallied for a 7-6 victory at its regular Turchin Stadium home. That field is still under renovation after being damaged by Hurricane Katrina, and Tulane already has moved the rest of its home games this season to the New Orleans Class AAA club's park. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[Cajun Express]

Tulane is looking for a victory against Louisiana tonight.

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[UL Ragin Cajun]

Ragin’ Cajuns Fall to Tulane

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Release: 04/11/2007


NEW ORLEANS-Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns baseball team dropped a 5-4 decision to in-state rival Tulane on Wednesday night at Zephyr Field.


The Cajuns jumped out to a 4-0 lead but let the Green Wave chip away until they tied the game in the fifth inning. Tulane used a run in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 4-4 tie. The run would be all the Green Wave would need as neither team was able to score in the final three innings.


Offensively, the Cajuns collected 11 hits on the night. Jonathan Lucroy, who had two hits in the game, hit a solo homerun in the second inning and added a single. Josh Logan was the only other Cajuns player with multiple hits. The outfielder had a pair of singles to go along with an RBI.


The Cajuns took the lead in the top of the second inning. Jonathan Lucroy led off the inning with his team-leading 12th homerun of the year. Tim Santiago dropped a one-out single into centerfield. Justin Robichaux moved to second with a single through the left side of the infield. Devon Bourque doubled into left field to score the lead runner and give UL a pair of runners in scoring position with just one out. Josh Logan singled through the left side to score Robichaux from third. With runners on the corners and one out, William Long hit a deep fly ball to right field to plate Bourque on the sacrifice fly. The Green Wave escaped the inning with no further runs score, but the Cajuns had an early 4-0 lead.


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_ Ragin’ Cajuns Fall to Tulane

Courtesy: RaginCajuns.com
Release: 04/11/2007


NEW ORLEANS-Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns baseball team dropped a 5-4 decision to in-state rival Tulane on Wednesday night at Zephyr Field.


The Cajuns jumped out to a 4-0 lead but let the Green Wave chip away until they tied the game in the fifth inning. Tulane used a run in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a 4-4 tie. The run would be all the Green Wave would need as neither team was able to score in the final three innings.


Offensively, the Cajuns collected 11 hits on the night. Jonathan Lucroy, who had two hits in the game, hit a solo homerun in the second inning and added a single. Josh Logan was the only other Cajuns player with multiple hits. The outfielder had a pair of singles to go along with an RBI.


The Cajuns took the lead in the top of the second inning. Jonathan Lucroy led off the inning with his team-leading 12th homerun of the year. Tim Santiago dropped a one-out single into centerfield. Justin Robichaux moved to second with a single through the left side of the infield. Devon Bourque doubled into left field to score the lead runner and give UL a pair of runners in scoring position with just one out. Josh Logan singled through the left side to score Robichaux from third. With runners on the corners and one out, William Long hit a deep fly ball to right field to plate Bourque on the sacrifice fly. The Green Wave escaped the inning with no further runs score, but the Cajuns had an early 4-0 lead.


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Considering the road ahead, i would have almost rathered this loss over an overwhelming win. Actually, no i wouldn't have...but it should bode well for the guys to have a "had it in the bag and lost it" game like this just to keep them humbled over the next two weeks.

Oh, and 8 strikeouts? probably gonna want to take care of that sometime before they take the field friday night.

[keithj]

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." The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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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." The rest of the story By Fred Robinson

[ltee67]

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.

[El Sidonio]

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!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DaddyCajun]

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