Hitting streak 2nd to winning for X
Among all of baseball's records, the marks involving consecutive streaks may be the most difficult to obtain, or to perpetuate.
UL junior Xavier Alexander is within striking distance of one of those records, and the New Iberia product may be in possession of one of the Cajun marks by the end of this weekend's Sun Belt Conference series at Florida International.
The fact that he's hit safely in 21 straight games - every game in which he's hit the field in his college career - isn't the driving factor this weekend, though.
"It's conference play," Alexander said Friday, "and it's different in conference play. There's an urgency to win that's way higher than a normal weekend series. You're playing for something, playing for a championship, and that can get pretty tough."
It's also an experience that Alexander hasn't had since his senior year at Westgate High, when the Tigers advanced to the Class 4A championship game before falling to DeRidder. His Paris Junior College team wasn't in contention for any such titles, and Alexander watched as a redshirt last season.
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Dan McDonald
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