Ragin' Cajuns set to Take on WarHawks

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• After a mid-season turnaround that has catapulted UL to above the .500 mark for the first time in nearly two months, the Ragin’ Cajuns set their sights on a potentially critical three-game Sun Belt Conference series this weekend against the ULM Warhawks. • Tony Robichaux needs two more victories to become the first Ragin’ Cajuns head coach to reach 500 wins. • Wednesday, Scott Hawkins (30) moved into fifth place on the career home run list passing Dallas Morris. • The Cajuns have pounded 10 or more hits in each of the last four games (4-0). • Louisiana’s four-game win streak matches a season high set towards the end of March. • Danny Cook, the father of Sunday starter Michael Cook, will be honored Saturday as a member of the 1978 Cajuns that first played at "The Tigue." ROAD TO 500. Louisiana’s Tony Robichaux could become the first Ragin’ Cajuns baseball coach to reach 500 victories this weekend against ULM...Robichaux needs two wins to catch elusive victory No. 500 after the Cajuns won the first two games of a five-game set earlier this week. HITTING CLINIC. With Louisiana’s 13 hits at McNeese State, the Cajuns have rapped out 10 or more hits in each of their last four contests...Louisiana’s 13 hits Tuesday night were a season-high at home. It was the first time the Cajuns reached double figures in hits at "The Tigue." The Cajuns have now reached the 10-hit mark 10 times this season. PINCH HIT MAGIC. Jordan Poirrier’s pinch-hit, three-run home run commenced an eighth-inning scoring barrage as the Ragin’ Cajuns scored seven runs in the frame to pummel McNeese State 14-8... For Poirrier, it was his first career home run which opened the three-homer inning. GOULAS DIGS THE LONG BALL, TOO. Jordan Poirrier wasn’t the only Cajun enjoying his first career dinger as Matt Goulas launched a home run over the left field scoreboard at McNeese State in the same inning. GOING...GOING...GISCLAIR. Swinging with an injured lef wrist, Nolan Gisclair single-handedly destroyed Northwestern State’s pitching staff, blasting two home runs over the scoreboard at "The Tigue" to lift the Cajuns to a 9-2 win Tuesday night... Gisclair tied a season high with three hits and four RBI, while tying a career high with the two bombs... Gisclair is the only Cajun this season to hit two home runs in a game. He blasted two homers at FAU earlier this year. HAMMERING AWAY. Junior All-American Scott Hawkins has come on strong as of late hitting three home runs in the last four games...Hawkins’ solo shot Wednesday at McNeese State moved him into fifth place on the school’s career home run list surpassing Dallas Morris (29). Hawkins is one of only five Cajuns in school history to hit 30 or more home runs in a career... Hawkins needs three more to tie David Alvis (33) for fourth all-time. He trails leader Ron Robicheaux (39) by nine homers. BROUSSARD, HARMON NOTCH FIRSTS, In Tuesday’s 9-2 win over Northwestern State, Matt Broussard notched his first career victory, allowing one run on three hits in seven innings. Broussard (1-0) walked three, while striking out four... Gregory Harmon, the beneficiary of the Cajuns’ seven-run eighth inning Wednesday night, earned his first victory of the season. Harmon (1-0) was touched for one unearned run on four hits with four strikeouts in 3 1/3 innings. JACK OF ALL TRADES. Sophomore utility player Chance Harst has started at four different positions this season for the Cajuns. Harst, a catcher by trade, has also started in left field and at designated hitter. Then, last weekend at MT, Harst was thrust into playing first base for the injured Justin Robichaux... The move has paid dividends both offensively and defensively. Wednesday, Harst fell a triple short of the cycle, going 3-for-4 with a solo home run...Since starting at first base for Robichaux, Harst is batting .467 (7-of-15) in the last four games, including two three-hit performances. OFFENSIVE RESURGENCE. More than half of the Cajuns’ offensive production this season season has come in the last 13 games. Through the first 18 games, the Cajuns were batted just .223 with 10 home runs and 64 RBI... However, in the last 13 contests, the Cajuns are hitting .282 with 17 homers and 77 RBI. LOGAN’S SUN BELT NUMBERS LEADS UL. Senior centerfielder Josh Logan is setting the pace for the Cajuns offensively in Sun Belt play...Logan leads the Cajuns with a .362 average which includes a team-best 17 hits, 14 runs scored, four doubles and two triples... Two of Logan’s three homers have come in the Sun Belt and he currently ranks second on the team with 12 RBI. ULM SCOUTING REPORT. First-place ULM (20-11, 12-3) has stumbled a bit as of late, losing three of its last four games. The Warhawks dropped a two-game midweek series to Division I baseball independent Dallas Baptist at home. DBU edged the Warhawks 2-1 Tuesday before crushing ULM 18-5 Wednesday afternoon... The Warhawks have won six of their last seven SBC games, winning two last weekend at home against UALR. ULM is 5-1 on the road in SBC play this season, winning two at Arkansas State and sweeping UNO... ULM leads the Ragin’ Cajuns in nearly every offensive category. Leading the Warhawks charge is junior Ben Soignier who is batting a team-best .405 with eight home runs and 26 RBI. Five other starters have a .300 batting average or better. Five other Warhawks have driven in 20 or more runs, including Kyle Suire (29), Matt Collins (27), Dexter Fontenot (25), A.J. Siggers (22) and Matt Laird (20). ULM SERIES. This weekend marks just the second series meeting between the schools as Sun Belt Conference rivals. Last season in ULM’s inaugural season as a member of the Sun Belt, the Cajuns swepted the Warhawks in Monroe... The Cajuns lead the series 48-28 and are 29-9 versus ULM since 1972... Louisiana, which has won the last seven in the series, is 9-3 at "The Tigue" and 24-8 at home since 1972 against ULM...It will be ULM’s first trip to Lafayette since participating in the Mardi Gras Baseball Classic in 2006. UP NEXT - NORTHWESTERN STATE. After this weekend’s SBC series with ULM, Louisiana will face the Northwestern State Demons for a home-and-home on Tuesday and Wednesday... Tuesday’s regularly-scheduled game at Northwestern State is set for 6:30 p.m., while Wednesday’s rescheduled "Turn Back the Clock Night" is set for 6:30 p.m. at "The Tigue." RaginCajuns.com Chris Yandle

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Huge series this weekend.

We need this

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