The Book: 2004 Baseball

[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

[CajunFanatic91]

Cajuns trailed 3-0 but come back on a 6 run 4th inning.

[RaisingCajun08]

Great game today. We finally took advantage of the opposing team errors. Well I guess things take care of itself when your opponent commits 4 errors in key situations.

Maybe Stony Brook had to much Crawfish last night. If so, lets bring them out again tonight.

[GoneGolfin]

I thought I would post this while listening to the Cajuns wrap up their Sun Belt Conference championship season against UALR ...

Siena does have a starting pitcher that could be quite dangerous, preseason MAAC pitcher of the year Ryan Bitter. For those that do not know, Siena is a conference rival of Marist.

Siena is 3-1 on the season after Bitter outdueled preseason All-American Thomas Diamond today in a 5-2 Siena win. Bitter scattered five hits over eight innings, yielding only one earned run. Diamond was touched up for nine hits and five earned runs over 6 1/3 innings.

Siena also took 2/3 on the road against Charlotte last weekend.

It will be interesting to see if Bitter can come back and throw Wednesday against the Cajuns after throwing eight innings today.

Brian

[Turbine]

Originally posted by GoneGolfin
Siena is a conference rival of Marist.

Isn't Marist where coach John Szefc did so good?

[NewsCopy]

Stony Brook is victim of solid pitching again

LOUISIANA La. — UL took advantage of several Stony Brook miscues, and used another outstanding pitching performance, as the Ragin Cajuns completed a three-game sweep of the Seawolves, winning 9-0 here Sunday afternoon.

The sweep by the Cajuns was their first three-game sweep of an opponent since winning three straight from New Mexico St. (April 19-22) in 2002.

“Baseball is really plain and simple,” Cajun coach Tony Robichaux said. “You have to pitch, play defense, and get timely hitting, and if you fail in one of those areas, then you become vulnerable.

“In the Texas State series last weekend, we didn’t get timely hitting in one game, and we didn’t play good enough defense in another. This weekend, we improved in some areas, but we still need to get better.”

The Cajuns (5-2) drew first blood in the bottom half of the third inning when Leonard Guerrero doubled to lead off the inning, moved to third on a bunt single by Justin Merendino, and scored on a push bunt off the bat of Dallas Morris to give the Cajuns a 1-0 advantage.

The Cajuns added three unearned runs in the bottom of the fifth, making the most of two Stony Brook errors in the frame, and that was more than enough for Josh Kohrs.

The JC transfer from St. Charles, Mo., picked up his first win in his first-ever start in a Cajun uniform, throwing seven shutout innings, giving up only four hits, fanning six and issuing no walks before giving way to Jered Salazar for two scoreless innings of relief.

“I was nervous,” admitted Kohrs. “The first few innings, it took me awhile to calm down, but once I settled in, I felt pretty good.

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Steve Pelloquin

[dingo]

Are they both in Caleeforneeah? As per Gov. Terminator

[GoneGolfin]

Yes. Szefc was the Marist head coach when the Red Foxes came down to Lafayette for the 2000 NCAA Baseball Regional.

Brian

[waterboy]

UNO beat Siena 23 to 3 on Sunday after losing 5 to 2 on Saturday against Bitter.