Cajuns Make Quick Stop at Lamson, Meet Cowgirls Again

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Currently in the midst of a stretch of 13 out of 14 games away from home to start the month of March, the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Softball team plays the lone game at Lamson Park on Wednesday, March 8 meeting I-10 neighbor McNeese.

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[Looney Lou]

With roughly one third of the season completed, we have hit 22 home runs. Granted, we have faced some very good pitching, but most of our players will have to pick up their game. Lets not forget, the Sun Belt has good pitchers, too. Gerry said at the start that we wouldn't hit as many home runs or win as many games as we were used to because of the demanding schedule. He was right, but after this weekend, we will be on the "manageable" side of the schedule. We need to win at least two of the games we will play against "ranked" teams. Two Florida games and one Baylor. Texas A&M may get back into the rankings. So we have a chance of two of four games to win to make this scheduling "gamble" worthwhile. Will we do it?

[VObserver]

With roughly one third of the season completed, we have hit 22 home runs. Granted, we have faced some very good pitching, but most of our players will have to pick up their game. Lets not forget, the Sun Belt has good pitchers, too. Gerry said at the start that we wouldn't hit as many home runs or win as many games as we were used to because of the demanding schedule. He was right, but after this weekend, we will be on the "manageable" side of the schedule. We need to win at least two of the games we will play against "ranked" teams. Two Florida games and one Baylor. Texas A&M may get back into the rankings. So we have a chance of two of four games to win to make this scheduling "gamble" worthwhile. Will we do it?

As of the RPI released through games of March 6, the Cajuns have 9 games remaining against top 50 RPI opponents; four of those you listed [Baylor 15, Florida 19 twice and Texas A&M 26]. The other five are SLU 32, Louisiana Tech 36 and Texas State 34 three times. Our only 'bad' non conference game is Mercer 225. Other non-conference games remaining are McNeese 67 twice and Rutgers 82 twice.

In conference the worst RPI series we play is JMU 178. The others are Texas State as noted above, South Alabama 60, Troy 63, App 87, Coastal 97, USM 98 and ULM 101.

There is a good chance that by the time we play them South Alabama will be in the top 50 as well.

In any event, Glasco is right; we still have enough SOS remaining to host if we take care of business. The window may only be open a crack, but it is still open.

I should add that according to the NCAA our SOS is 5 and our non-conference SOS is 6; so plenty of schedule strength to host. Also, we are undefeated outside the top 25. A sweep of our remaining top 25 games [counting aTm, who will rise to that level] would leave us 5-8 against Top 25. Texas State also has a chance to be Top 25; if that happens and we sweep them as well we will be 8-8 against Top 25 and a virtual lock to host.