Lady Cajuns vs Southern Miss Part II

[Turbine]

Good game

Test comes tomorrow.

OK I should have said Sunday

2-2 tie 11th

[CajunCall]

The Ladies are something else they just won three to two

[DieHard1280]

Lady Cajuns win 3-2 in 11 innings. Makes me feel a little better after the weekend the other sports had.

GEAUX CAJUNS!!!

[Clutch0364]

Great game...this is the type of game the girls need to play so they can be prepared for tough games late in the season. It pays to be tested and pushed to the limit like they were today. Nice to see them keep their composure and fight hard in a tough game

[Pirogue]

_ Great game...this is the type of game the girls need to play so they can be prepared for tough games late in the season. It pays to be tested and pushed to the limit like they were today. Nice to see them keep their composure and fight hard in a tough game _

Great to hear of a win like this...

It takes all kinds

[jllanclos]

i taped the game on klaf and just finished watching it. im amazed at the composure of ashley brignac. when she's in the hot grease she is clutch. at least twice she had the bases loaded with less than 1 out, including the 10th if i'm not mistaken, and she pitched out of it. katie smith is fast as lightning. she hit a hard bunt right back to the pitcher and beat the throw by 2 steps. wow. very sound defensive team also.

[IHateLaState]

Man that was exciting... Ashely is a warrior... and that Right Fielder... I need to learn som names... made a heck-of-a-play...

way to go ladies

[jllanclos]

holly tankersly is the right fielder. that play she made was nice. it was a single that tankersly turned into an out by not giving up on the play and quickly gunning it to 1st

[lcitsh]

Most definitely, an important win for this early in the season. So Miss played tough. Let's hope they play like this for most of the season. Cajuns need to play opponents like this to prepare them for late in the season.

[CajunApostle]

Great game for the Lady Cajuns and great experience for the future. That game will hurt our RPI though as Southern Miss, the same team that took us to 11 innings, lost to a horrible Mississippi Valley State team earlier today. I may be wrong but we need to get wins over better teams than southern miss in order to get respect.

[NewsCopy]

UL - Louisiana’s Lady Cajuns needed 11 innings to claim the 2008 Louisiana Classics Softball Tournament title. The Cajuns (8-0) battled Southern Miss for 11 full innings and squeak out a 3-2 victory on Sunday afternoon at Alfred and Helen Lamson Ragin’ Cajuns Softball Park. Knotted at 2-2 in the top of the 11th inning, Lana Bowers (Crosby, Texas) tripled down the right field line to get things going for the Cajuns. Karli Hubbard (Lafayette, La.) hit a 1-0 pitch up the middle for a base hit to score Bowers from third and send the crowd of 654 into a frenzy. In the bottom half of the inning, the Cajuns walked the leadoff runner. But a heads up defensive play by Melissa Verde (Beaumont, Texas) on an attempted sacrifice bunt attempt eliminated the lead runner. A pair of fly balls ended the game and gave the Cajuns their eighth straight win to start the season. Offensively for the Cajuns, Bowers, Hubbard and Katie Smith (Ruston, La.) all finished with multiple hits. Bowers finished the game 3-for-5 with a pair of singles and her game-changing triple. Hubbard had a pair of singles, but none more important than her RBI hit in the 11th. In the circle, Ashley Brignac (River Ridge, La.) threw a complete game. The 11 innings tossed is the most by any Cajuns pitcher since Melissa Coronado (1999-02) had 13.0 innings pitched against UMass on May 16, 2002. Brignac finished the game with 12 strikeouts and worked her way out of numerous jams. She scattered five hits and relied on solid Cajuns defense to hold Southern Miss to just two runs. For the first time during the 2008 season, the Cajuns trailed in a game. In the bottom of the first inning, Southern Miss led off the inning with a walk and moved the runner with a sacrifice bunt. A wild pitch moved the runner to within 60-feet of home. A bloop single into left field scored the runner and gave USM a 1-0 edge after one complete inning of play. The Cajuns answered in the top half of the second. Gabriele Bridges (Lafitte, La.) singled through the right side of the infield for the base runner of the game for UL. Courtney Trahan (Maurice, La.) entered the game to pinch run for Bridges. She moved to second on a Jessica Dupont (Alexandria, La.) walk. A long fly ball moved Trahan to third base and a wild pitch plated the runner. UL grabbed the lead in the top of the fifth inning. Bowers singled to left centerfield. A pair of groundouts moved Bowers to third base. Verde singled to the shortstop to plate the runner and give the Cajuns a 2-0 edge after four and a half innings of play. The Golden Eagles loaded the bases in the bottom of the fifth inning without the benefit of a hit. After a strikeout to start the inning, Brignac walked the next batter and clipped a batter with an inside pitch. She worked the count full on the next batter and just missed out on an outside pitch to load the bases. A deep sacrifice fly tied the score, but Brignac struck out the next batter to end the inning, leaving the score knotted at 2-2. USM threatened in the bottom of the sixth. A pair of singles gave the Golden Eagles runners on first and second with no outs. The runners tried to advance on a pitch that almost got away from Bowers. The sophomore catcher never lost control of the ball and fired the ball down to third base for the first out of the inning. With a runner on second base and one out, Brignac took over the inning. She struck out the next batter and proceeded to fan the following batter on three straight pitches to end the inning and the Southern Miss threat. Both teams had chances in the extra frames, leaving baserunners in scoring position. Each team left at least one base runner in every frame except the Southern Miss tenth inning when the Cajuns retired the Golden Eagles in order. The Ragin’ Cajuns will return to action on Friday, Feb. 29 as they head to Columbus, Ga., for the NFCA Leadoff Classic. The Cajuns will open up the tournament with a game against North Carolina. The rest of the story Chris Whitehead

[BrockMeaux]

Great game for the Lady Cajuns and great experience for the future. That game will hurt our RPI though as Southern Miss, the same team that took us to 11 innings, lost to a horrible Mississippi Valley State team earlier today. I may be wrong but we need to get wins over better teams than southern miss in order to get respect.

They're not exactly the best team on our schedule. And we beat them, so that's what matters.