The Book: 2003 Softball

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Lady Cajuns get a bye for winning the Subelt regular season title.

At 4pm today, the Lady Cajuns of Louisiana take on the winner of the Western Kentucky / New Mexico State winner.

Geaux Lady Cajuns

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Oregon 4
Louisiana 0

Louisiana's Brooke Mitchell twinged something and had to leave the game in the first inning.

Freshman Afton Thoms of Baton Rouge came in relief

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Lady Cajuns score.

4-1

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score

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Thanks bear_three

"Louisiana lead-off hitter Jill Roberston started the game with a home run as the Ragin' Cajuns scored five runs on four hits, including two home runs and two doubles."

[bear_three]

No prob. I look all over for the final before I stumbled onto that page.

We play Texas next on MAy 22 @ 6:30pm CT.

We're in the same bracket as UCLA and Cal. Gonna be tough to come out of that bracket.

[RedBug58]

This is the "College World Series", the best of the best. Look at the names of the schools where these teams are coming from. Again, we are the Cinderella. Our "wins per dollar spent ratio" has got to extremely high compared to this group!!!

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Louisiana softball enjoys slaying the giant programs.

LOUISIANA La. — It would be easy to come up with movie themes for Louisiana’s latest berth in the Women’s College World Series.

Obviously, that rousing prairie classic “Oklahoma” comes to mind, since the Lady Cajuns of coach Stefni Lotief board the bus this morning for Oklahoma City.

Probably, though, you’d have to grant that one to the University of Oklahoma Sooners, the de facto host program for this week’s action.

Then there’s the 1961 epic “El Cid,” in which Charlton Heston portrayed legendary Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, an 11th century knight who drove the Moors from Spain.

The rest of the story
Bruce Brown
bbrown@theadvertiser.com

[CDeb]

Is Bruce trying to win an award or something? Laying the metaphor on a little thick IMO.

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The Lady Cajuns softball team pulled out of Lafayette Tuesday morning on buses headed for the Womens College World Series in Oklahoma City.

Thier first game will be on Thursday at 6:30pm against Texas. The Lady Cajuns and Texas have faced each other just one time, back in 1999 at the Kia classic. The Lady Longhorns won, 1-0.

KATC Sports Director Pat Minnis is following the team. Watch for his reports beginning Wednesday on KATC TV-3!

The source of the storyKATC

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University of Louisiana softball produces at least one All-American for the fifth straight year and 14th in the last 15

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - For the fifth straight season at least one player from Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns softball team was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-America Team.

Senior third baseman Becky McMurtry and freshman outfielder Danyele Gomez were each named to collegiate softball's most prestigious list as announced in the opening ceremonies for the 2003 Women's College World Series here a the Don E. Porter Hall of Fame Stadium.

The selections were the 31st and 32nd in Louisiana softball history and since 1989.

Louisiana has had at least one All-American in 14 of the last 15 seasons.

For McMurtry the award will be added to the list of crown jewels that scatter her four-year career.

The North Platte, Neb., native was named to the NFCA All-America Second Team as an at large selection. This season's selection marked McMurtry's second in a Cajuns uniform and the third of her prolific four-year career.

She joins current Cajuns head coach Stefni Lotief as one of several players in Louisiana-Lafayette history to be named an All-American more than once while playing for the Cajuns.

McMurtry, the Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year and All-Sun Belt First Team member, is currently hitting .409 - the second straight season that her batting average is above .400. She has a .799 slugging percentage to go along with 14 home runs, 16 doubles, 51 RBI and a team-high 58 runs scored.

Gomez's selection comes as no surprise. She was named to the Third Team as an outfielder directly voted on to the team.

The Metairie native, not recruited out of high school, has proven to be a gem of a find for the Cajuns coaching staff.

Gomez, a true freshman from Cabrini High School, established a new single-season home run record and currently has 19 dingers. She bested the former single-season mark of 16 set by former All-American Alana Addison in 2002.

Gomez is the Cajuns RBI leader with 60 and sports a .751 slugging percentage. She ranks in the Top 5 nationally in both home runs and runs batted in per game.

She was named the Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year and was a member of the All-Sun Belt Conference First Team.

The Cajuns two selections to the All-America Team marks the ninth time in program history that more than one player was named to the team.

Since Lotief took over the program in 2001, the Cajuns have received four All-America honors. This season marked the first time under Lotief that more than one player was named.

The Ragin' Cajuns will open play at the 2003 Women's College World Series Thursday at 6:30 p.m. live on ESPN against No. 3 national seed and USA Softball Player of the Year Cat Osterman at Don E. Porter Hall of Fame Stadium.

LOUISIANA SI

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WAY TO GEAUX LADIES!