The Book: 2004 Baseball

[RaisingCajun08]

From what I have been hearing we are supposed to be playing this weekend. Some games have been rescheduled from early in the season. Can someone please confirm dates, time, team, & tickets we should be using to get into the game?

[Turbine]

Originally posted by RaginCajun08
From what I have been hearing we are supposed to be playing this weekend. Some games have been rescheduled from early in the season. Can someone please confirm dates, time, team, & tickets we should be using to get into the game?

I called the office, there is no room to reschedule games this week because a Monday and Tuesday game are already on tap for next week.

By Tuesday, they will already be playing 4 games in 4 days, the last on the road.

[Oldman]

baseball games this week at the tique:

5-5 wed. 6:30 s'eastern in town

5-8,9, sat. 6:30, sun. 1pm n'western in town

5-10 mon. 6:30, nicholls in town

[Oldman]

turbine, we play tomorrow nite wednesday the 5th.

[NewsCopy]

LOUISIANA La. — Louisiana’s baseball squad doesn’t play a Sun Belt Conference series this weekend, and it’s probably just as well.

The Ragin’ Cajuns could use the time to heal, especially in the infield.

The Cajuns (26-17) will be without half of its normal infield when they host Southeastern Louisiana tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Moore Field, and neither Justin Bourque nor Dallas Morris will be back in action anytime soon.

Bourque is battling a staph infection and will miss tonight’s game and all of the four non-conference games the Cajuns have scheduled between Saturday and Tuesday. The Cajuns’ designated hitter and primary infield backup is expected to return when UL Lafayette gets back to Sun Belt wars May 14-16 against Arkansas State in the home finales.

Morris, though, is another story. The Cajuns’ sparkplug third baseman went down hard making the turn at second base on a two-run double Sunday against New Orleans, and suffered a hairline fracture of his right ankle. He’ll be out of action a minimum of four weeks and is doubtful for the Sun Belt Tournament May 26-29 in Mobile, Ala.

“It’s going to be hard for him to get back,” said Cajun coach Tony Robichaux, “but if anyone can do it it’s him. He has such mental toughness that he’s got a chance to be back. Justin’s is just a matter of time to let him heal up, and he’s going to be OK.”

Add those to a preseason wrist injury that ended highly-touted transfer Jameson Parker’s season before it ever began, and it makes it even more surprising that the Cajuns lead the Sun Belt in team fielding and have nine fewer errors (48) than any other team in the league.

The rest of the story

Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@lafayette.gannett.com

[Turbine]

New basketball coach Glynn Cyprien threw out the first pitch, Louisiana gets 3 home runs, as Louisiana defeats Southeastern 10-0

[RedBug58]

OK, now did that ball bounce over the fence or not? I wasn't there, but the people I talk to say that we got away with one.

[Oldman]

the ball did bounce over the fense! but it wouldn't have mattered. if they had called it back to a double, preau came up next and hit a double that would have scored two more runs, 4-0.

[Cajun Express]

Originally posted by oldman
the ball did bounce over the fense! but it wouldn't have mattered. if they had called it back to a double, preau came up next and hit a double that would have scored two more runs, 4-0.

Oldman you know better than that. Once the bases cleared the whole dynamics changed. He may have struck out, hit a homer, grouded out, or hit the double, or any number of other things.

[NewsCopy]

LOUISIANA La. — Ryan Core looks at the Louisiana baseball statistics sheet, and he’s still not happy with what he sees.

That sheet lists the Ragin’ Cajun senior catcher with a .248 batting average, a number that ranks him near the bottom of the Cajun regulars and a number that he knows should be better.

But what Core also knows is from where he came.

Seven weeks ago, the returning All-Sun Belt Conference selection was in a woeful season-opening slump. Core had only six hits in his first 46 at-bats and was hitting .130 just prior to the start of Sun Belt play.

“There’s nothing more frustrating than to start like I did,” Core said. “And I’m not one to get frustrated. I didn’t know what had happened. But I knew I could swing the bat, and I just kept working.”

It wasn’t the first time the Folsom native had sung the blues to start a season, with a slow start in his first Cajun campaign in 2003. But that could have been expected, since he was new to the program and had the added duties that coach Tony Robichaux puts on his catchers to work with the pitching staff.

This year was more of a mystery.

“Some people are just late starters,” Robichaux said, “and Ryan pushes himself so hard that it was tough on him. We really needed him, and he knew that, too.”

It didn’t happen overnight, and there was no dramatic turnaround. But, slowly, the hitting stroke started coming back. So did the power that he showed in spurts late in the 2003 season.

Since that opening struggle, he’s hit at a .313 clip (26-of-83) while totaling eight home runs and 26 RBI, both figures already higher than his season total of last year.

And, in the Cajuns’ last 11 games, he’s hitting .375.

The rest of the story

Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@lafayette.gannett.com