Before the baseball season even started in February, the challenge was obvious given what UL lost from the previous year.

Hunter Moody, Danny Farquhar, Buddy Glass and Brent Solich - all of whom earned all-Sun Belt Conference honors at one point - exhausted their eligibility last season for the Cajuns (21-22-1). Moody finished as the program's all-time leader in victories - and fourth in league history in that category - and was drafted last summer along with Farquhar by the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • May 1, 2009