FAU Coach Cooney a class act

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check that....an OLD, OLD, OLD alum.

lets get it right.

Z

Wait a darn minute! I resemble that remark! Hey I noticed a little grey creeping into the Z-do! Maybe El Zeebarto is climbing the age ladder as well, no? LOL

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Editor's note: Kevin Cooney is head baseball coach at new Sun Belt Conference member Florida Atlantic, and has won 698 games in his 20 years with the Owls along with taking teams to eight NCAA Regionals, sending 67 players to professional baseball and winning three Atlantic Sun Conference titles. He writes a weekly diary on at www.fausports.com and this week he wrote about FAU's league series last weekend in Lafayette with his own perspective on the weekend: It's probably best to get the bad part of the trip out of the way. We flew into Lafayette hoping to right the ship after last weekend's conference sweep at the hands of Troy. It was a weekend of disappointment and the trip to Louisiana promised to be as challenging, if not more. We found ourselves about as far removed from Boca Raton, Fla., as possible. We have a loyal core of fans at home and sometimes get a decent crowd, but nothing like what we found in Cajun country. Coach Robichaux's boys were off to a good start and featured the best pitching staff in the Sun Belt. The FAU offense is at the top of the list, so something had to give. The old baseball adage is that good pitching stops good hitting. This matchup followed that script. How many college baseball series this weekend featured all three games being knotted 2-2 in the eighth inning? Ours did. The starting pitchers for both teams pitched great. Just look at those scores. But, as we all know, baseball games are nine innings. The rest of the Diary

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Cooney wins 700th game at FAU

Pitcher Mike Obradovich made it easy for Florida Atlantic coach Kevin Cooney.

Obradovich threw a complete game, striking out 13, as the Owls defeated Arkansas State 5-2 on Friday in Boca Raton and handed Cooney his 700th victory at the school.

A two-run single by Daniel Bomback gave FAU (20-10, 3-7 Sun Belt) a 2-0 lead in the third. William Block and Bomback hit back-to-back homers in the fifth.