The Book: 2004 Baseball

[GoneGolfin]

You are welcome snote ... Are you Billy?

Brian

[NewsCopy]

LOUISIANA La. - If Moore Field is anywhere close to playable tonight, Louisiana baseball coach Tony Robichaux’s ready to go.

The Ragin’ Cajuns host Nicholls State tonight at 6:30 p.m., field conditions permitting, in the squad’s second home appearance of the season. By this time, the Cajuns had been slated for five home appearances, but that was before Mother Nature stepped in.

The Cajuns (2-2) were on the road last weekend at Texas State, where they took one of three games, and weren’t around to cover the Moore Field infield when rain returned to the area late Sunday and early Monday.

“We really need to get this one in,” said Robichaux, whose team spent most of Tuesday’s Mardi Gras workout indoors. “Playing right now is so important because this is the time of year to get guys into games.”

UL Lafayette was able to get all but one position player — St. Thomas More freshman signee Jeffries Tatford — into action in last weekend’s series, and Robichaux was hoping to continue using much of his roster tonight.

“We want to get guys that haven’t faced Division I pitching or hitting out there at all cost,” he said. “If we can do that, we’ll be that much better. You don’t want somebody to have their first appearance in April.”

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Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@lafayette.gannett.com

[Oldman]

looks like there's no baseball again tonight, (i'm sick of all this rain)hopefully the game will be played thursday night, they cannot even practice! if they had a indoor practice facility they could at least do that, that's how important this is, if it ever happens! man......... will we ever get a break, i'm bumded out for the rest of the day; for some reason i thought the baseball field had a drainage system, looks like i was wrong again.

[RaisingCajun08]

Game rescheduled for May 10

[CajunFanatic91]

Thats to bad. You can imagine the trouble northern schools are having with snow on the ground however.

[Turbine]

LOUISIANA La. — They haven’t been able do much outside practicing due to the weather. They’ve scrambled around to find places to work out, and they’re desperate just to play. Their coaches say their hitters haven’t faced enough live pitching and their hurlers haven’t thrown to enough batters.

Louisiana’s baseball team? Yes, but it also applies to the University of Stony Brook’s Seawolves, who journeyed all the way from New York’s Long Island for a weekend series that begins tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Moore Field.

The host Ragin’ Cajuns (2-2) have been pushed around by rain and wet grounds for most of the last two weeks. It’s been the severe cold and, yes, snow that has hampered the early preparations for Stony Brook (1-2).

“We’ve actually gotten out as much as we can,” said Seawolves coach Matthew Senk. “Our new football stadium has a sports turf, and the snow had been cleared for our lacrosse team. That gave us an opportunity to get out there and do some things on the field.

“It’s not the same as getting out there and playing on the diamond, but we’ve made the most of it.”

Stony Brook, a member of the America East Conference and a finalist in that league’s tournament last spring, played three games in the Griffin Pontiac Challenge in Rock Hill, S.C., last weekend. The Seawolves beat Appalachian State 10-3 and lost to Akron 15-8 and host Winthrop 10-6 in that round-robin tournament.

“The approach we took there was to give everyone an opportunity,” Senk said. “We gave our entire pitching staff an opportunity to throw. The more you can play, the more at bats, the more innings, you can take all of that into conference play.”

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Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@lafayette.gannett.com

[Turbine]

Complete game ONE HITTER

This after giving up a double to start the game.

According to Jay it Louisiana's 1st complete game (9 inning) one hitter in 11 years

[DieHard1280]

That's great. Obviously the Cajuns won, but what was the score? I was listening over the internet until the 6th inning when my connection crapped out and I kept getting an error when I tried to get it back.

Congratulations, Kevin!!! GEAUX CAJUNS!!!!

[RaisingCajun08]

5 - 0 Cajuns Win

[NewsCopy]

Ardoin tosses 1-hitter

LOUISIANA La. — When Stony Brook’s Andrew Larsen laced his third pitch of the game into the leftfield gap for a double, Kevin Ardoin knew he made a mistake pitch.

How big a mistake? It cost him immortality ... a permanent place in UL Lafayette baseball history ... and something to tell his grandchildren about.

But it was plenty good enough for a memorable win.

Ardoin retired 27 straight batters — very likely a first in Cajun history — after that leadoff double, and his teammates finally broke through with late-inning runs in a 5-0 victory over Stony Brook Friday in the opener of their three-game series.

Ardoin’s one-hitter included 12 strikeouts and 10 infield outs, and his performance was the first nine-inning one-hitter since Brendan Daly one-hit Ole Miss at Moore Field in 1993.

“He did a great job,” said Cajun coach Tony Robichaux, “and you’ve got to give their guy a lot of credit, too. He gave them a chance to win on the road.”

That was Seawolves righthander Jon Lewis, who threw six shutout innings before the Cajuns (3-2) parlayed two hits and an error into three seventh-inning runs.

“That was a fantastic matchup,” said Stony Brook coach Matt Senk. “It’s unfortunate in that kind of game that we couldn’t take advantage. We kept telling our guys to hang in there and we’d get something going.”

Ardoin (1-1) made sure the Seawolves (1-3) never did, getting a pair of defensive gems along the way. Center fielder John Coker ran down a fly ball to end the third inning and second baseman Justin Merendino went deep in the hole toward first base to record a sixth-inning out and keep the streak alive.

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Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@lafayette.gannett.com