This weekend’s home series with South Alabama will also be the Ragin’ Cajuns annual Alumni Weekend.

Guests of honor include the 1988 Ragin’ Cajuns baseball team, which was the first team to go to an NCAA Regional, the team’s first All-American Lionel Kleinpeter and UL Hall of Famer Leonard Kleinpeter.

Festivities include an afternoon of golf at The Farm, a crawfish boil, alumni batting practice, tailgating all weekend at the Tigue, and of course Ragin’ Cajuns baseball.

Scott Hawkins continues to climb several Cajuns’ career charts. He is tied for first in all-time career home runs with Ron Robicheaux (1983-86) at 39, and recently moved into fifth for career games started (182), runs scored (146), and total bases (379), and needs just two doubles to enter into a three-way, fifth-place tie in career two-baggers.

The Cajuns are now on a nine-game home winning streak, including come-from-behind wins in the last eight, and are 12-5-1 at home overall. Average attendance at home games this year tops 2,100.

Louisiana has begun to turn the corner on the Jaguars, having won nine of the last 10 meetings and 22 of 34 since the turn of the century. Head Coach Tony Robichaux has been at the helm for 27 of UL’s 31 series victories. The series is tied at 27-all in the Robichaux Era, helping UL trim down a series deficit which was 28-4 in the early years of the Robichaux Era. Louisiana has won the Sun Belt season series with USA the last four seasons (2005-08). UL is 17-12 at home vs. USA (17-10 at “The Tigue”). A vast majority of the meetings have taken place since UL joined the Sun Belt in 1992 – 63 of 78 all-time meetings have come during Sun Belt partnership (1992-2008).

The programs have met in eight Sun Belt Conference Tournaments for a total of 12 matchups – five tournaments in Mobile, two tournaments in Lafayette and one in Bowling Green, Ky. – and have split 12 contests. The rivalry heated up from 2002-03 as both times the season series determined the Sun Belt Conference regular season title. USA got the best of the Cajuns each time winning two-of-three each time.

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