2003-04 Lady Cajun's Basketball

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HAMMOND — Louisiana’s Lady Cajuns basketball team makes the first of 10 straight road appearances to begin the 2003-04 season tonight when the Lady Cajuns travel to face Southeastern Louisiana.

The Cajuns, coming off an 8-19 season but winners of three out of four games to wrap up the 2002-03 campaign, will face the Lady Lions (1-0) at 7 p.m. at SLU’s University Center.

The UL squad, opening its second season under head coach J. Kelley Hall, took a 48-45 home win over SLU last season.

So far this year, the Lady Cajuns have two defeats in two exhibition games, most recently falling to the Jackson Babes 66-64 12 days ago.

“We’ve improved immensely since then, especially defensively,” said Hall. “We’ve made some big strides stopping transition and dribble penetration.”

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THIBODAUX – Wave goodbye to the members of Louisiana's Lady Cajun basketball team today, if you see them.

By the time you see them again, they will have visited Thibodaux, taken a brief stop in Baton Rouge, flown to Lincoln, Neb., flown to Columbia, S.C., taken a bus ride to Savannah, Ga., swing back through Columbia, bussed to Myrtle Beach, S.C., and flown back to Baton Rouge.

The Ragin’ Cajun women embark today on a marathon 10-day, five-city, five-game trip that will make up half of the squad’s series of 10 straight road games to begin the 2003-04 season.

That trip’s games start tonight when the Cajuns (2-2) take on Nicholls State in a 7 p.m. contest at Stopher Gym, which will be aired on KPEL-AM 1420.

The Cajun squad of head coach J. Kelley Hall will also meet Nebraska on Dec. 14, Savannah State on Dec. 16, South Carolina on Dec. 18 and Coastal Carolina in the Beach Ball Classic in Myrtle Beach before returning home.

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LOUISIANA La. — Louisiana’s junior center Anna Petrakova was named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week.

Petrakova averaged 26 points and 14 rebounds in the Cajuns’ two contests.

It’s the first for the Cajun women since Sarah Richey claimed the same honor during the 2001-02 season.

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — The long and winding road finally comes to an end, at least for a while, for the University of Louisiana's Lady Cajuns basketball team today.

The Lady Cajun squad completes a streak of five games in five different cities in nine days, all on the same trip, when it meets Coastal Carolina at 11 a.m. in the opening game of the Beach Ball Classic.

UL (3-5) won the opener of the trip at Nicholls State but has since lost by two points at Nebraska, lost in overtime at Savannah State and dropped a 72-59 decision to South Carolina on Thursday night.

“USC is a very good team and a top-five SEC team,” said Cajun coach J. Kelley Hall of the Thursday contest with the Gamecocks. “We knew coming in we had to dictate the tempo and I felt like our kids played hard and controlled the game for a good bit.”

Junior center Anna Petrakova had a season-high 26 points, hitting 11-of-13 shots, to lead the Cajuns in the loss to USC, while senior newcomer and frontcourt mate Tiffany Washington added 17 points and a game-high 11 rebounds

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LOUISIANA La. — The long-awaited home opener for Louisiana’s Lady Cajuns comes at 2 p.m. today when UL hosts Denver at Earl K. Long Gym on campus.

Coach J. Kelley Hall’s team is a solid 5-5 on the year after capping a 10-game stretch of away games with Tuesday’s 68-44 dismantling of the Lamar Lady Cardinals, while Denver enters the contest at 7-5.

“It’s good to be home,” Hall said. “Playing 10 in a row on the road to start the season might be one of the toughest things I’ve ever asked a team to do, but overall I thought they responded well and have continued to get better.

“I you’re going to have that kind of experience, we needed to do it early. It was good to finish it off with a nice win.”

On Tuesday, UL got 24 points and 13 rebounds from junior Anna Petrakova, as well as 19 points from Sharee Glenn, 12 from Bernette Tolston (all on 3-pointers) and 10 rebounds from defensive ace Tiffany Washington.

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[Turner]

Does anyone know if Ragin' Cajuns won? I'm asking about the women Ragin' Cajuns basketball team.

[RaisingCajun08]

Yes the women's team did win. 80-57

[Crawfish]

And they won again today against UTPA. Can't remember the score, but it was a 4-5 point game. Cajun women had a big lead at halftime but got really tired in the 2nd half.

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Weary squad hits the wall, but still tops visiting UTPA


LOUISIANA La. — The wall that the University of Louisiana’s Lady Cajuns basketball team ran into was almost visible in the second half.

But, in contrast to Lady Cajun teams of the not-too-distant past, the home team found a way to hold on down the stretch and take its fourth straight win here Sunday afternoon.

The Lady Cajuns, leading by 21 points at halftime and 22 with 17 minutes left, struggled the rest of the way in a 62-54 win over Texas-Pan American in the second game of a four-game homestand.

The first of that home streak was barely 24 hours earlier, when the Louisiana squad played perhaps its most complete game of the year in an 80-57 win over Denver in their Sun Belt Conference opener Saturday afternoon.

The wear and tear of that emotional win showed throughout the second half Sunday after the Lady Cajuns had thoroughly dominated the first 20 minutes.

“We didn’t have any legs left,” said coach J. Kelley Hall. “Yesterday took a lot out of us. We didn’t have the spring to go get rebounds and to shoot the ball like we’re capable of.”

The Cajuns (7-5) outboarded Pan Am 24-13 in the first half, shot 48.4 from the field and held the Broncs to a 5-of-25 shooting performance on the way to a 37-16 edge.

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[Oldman]

shame on me, i haven't gotten to see the girls play. but i'm excited about what's happening, coach has really turn this team around, we need to get everyone behind them and show our support, early game thursday show up. "GEAUX CAJUNS>"