The Book: 2004 Baseball

[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?

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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.

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PREGAME

Louisiana tries to keep its bats hot against Siena.

LOUISIANA La. – Both Louisiana and Siena College will be looking for the answer to one question tonight when the clubs open a two-game baseball series at Moore Field.

The question: How will their teams fare when their known pitching quantities are not available?

The Ragin’ Cajuns (5-2) are coming off a weekend series against Stony Brook in which they got three stellar starting mound performances from Kevin Ardoin, Kraig Schambough and Josh Kohrs. They’re the front-runners for the squad’s weekend pitching rotation slots after holding the visiting Seawolves to three runs and striking out 28 in three games.

Siena, meanwhile, used a lot of arms in a three-game series against New Orleans that wrapped up Monday night, and will play its fourth and fifth games in as many days when the clubs meet tonight and Wednesday in a pair of 6:30 p.m. games at Moore Field.

In other words, both teams may go short stints with several pitchers in these two games.

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Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@lafayette.gannett.com

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SIENA   Tigue Moore Field   LOUISIANA 6   Montgomery gets the win as Louisiana produces its highest run total in over 2 years.   19

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9         Runs Hits Errors Saints 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3         6 9 4 Ragin' Cajuns 5 3 4 0 3 1 0 3           19 21 0

Cajun bats rip Siena’s pitching

LOUISIANA La. – Dallas Morris had been waiting for Tuesday night. So had Phillip Hawke and Adam Massiatte. And coach Tony Robichaux was ready for it to happen.

That whole group had been anxious for their Louisiana baseball team to bust out offensively, and they did on Tuesday with Siena College the unfortunate victim.

The Ragin' Cajuns posted their highest run total since the end of the 2001 season and rapped out 19 hits, nine of them for extra bases, in rolling to an easy 19-6 win over the New York-based Saints in the opener of a two-game series.

“Our hitters did a good job swinging,” said Robichaux. “They were pitching us away and our guys were taking it that way. I thought they did a lot of good things at the plate.”

The Cajuns (6-2), winners of four straight, will wrap up the short Siena series tonight, with righthander Jeff Morgan (0-0) slated to start opposite Saints righthander Ken Grant (0-1) for the 6:30 p.m. Moore Field contest.

Robichaux’s troops hadn’t had more than 12 hits in any of their first seven games, but they had that through four innings on Tuesday and had a 12-2 lead by the time starting pitcher Thad Montgomery finished his predetermined three innings.

Every member of the Cajun starting lineup hit safely, and that ninesome totaled 18 hits as part of UL’s highest hit total since last season’s UNO series.

The Cajuns had their highest run production since a 20-16 win at New Mexico State, and tallied their most runs in a non-Las Cruces game since the 19-8 win over Houston in the 1999 NCAA Regional championship game.

Morris was one of the leaders of that hit parade with the squad’s first four-hit game of the year, including extra-base RBI hits in each of the first two innings off Siena loser Joshua Burnett (0-1).

“Hitting’s contagious,” said Morris, who got his four hits in five innings before leaving with a tight hamstring. “Once you start we have lots of guys that can keep it going. It’s good for all of us to get on the same page.”

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