Mercy Me: UCLA wins 10-1 in CWS-clinching win over UL Women

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 LOS ANGELES — The 2010 College Softball season came to an end Sunday for Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns, after falling to the UCLA Bruins, 10-1, in five innings, in the second game of the best-of-three game NCAA Super Regional Series.

The mercy-rule win, the second in as many days for UCLA, sends the Bruins to the Womens' College World Series, in Oklahoma City.

"It's a great day to be a Bruin," said Kelly Inouye-Perez, UCLA Head Coach. "We had a vision at the beginning of the year, and we respected the game, took things day-by-day, and it paid off for us today."

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Steve Peloquin
Special to The Advertiser

[J-Town Cajun]

Since UL has been great in softball (20 or so years), how many times has UL been run ruled (especially recent history) and has it ever happend 2 times in a row?

[Damon]

We were just overmatched and got rolled by a much better team.

Congrats to the softball team on a great season.

[J-Town Cajun]

_ Since UL has been great in softball (20 or so years), how many times has UL been run ruled (especially recent history) and has it ever happend 2 times in a row? _

I looked at the past 7 years (as for back as ragincajuns.com will go) and UL was only beaten by 8 or more runs 5 times. Only 3 of those were true run rule games because 2 of them went the full 7 innings.

Before yesterday:
'10 Washington
'09 Michigan
'08 Michigan (but went 7 innings)
'07 Arizona (but went 7 innings)
'06
'05 Oklahoma (last game of the year, and we had beat Oklahoma earlier that day)

[Bunch24]

_ I looked at the past 7 years (as for back as ragincajuns.com will go) and UL was only beaten by 8 or more runs 5 times. Only 3 of those were true run rule games because 2 of them went the full 7 innings.

Before yesterday:
'10 Washington
'09 Michigan
'08 Michigan (but went 7 innings)
'07 Arizona (but went 7 innings)
'06
'05 Oklahoma (last game of the year, and we had beat Oklahoma earlier that day) _

That was noted in our By the Numbers breakout on the print edition of the paper. Prior to Sunday, the Cajuns had NEVER been beaten in back-to-back run-rule games. In fact, as you noted, this is the first time that the Cajuns have been run-ruled twice (actually three times) in a season.

Also, another note: UCLA has run-ruled 20 of their opponents this year, which is a pretty amazing stat, considering the schedule they play. That gives you an idea of the power that they have on that team.

[OLF82]

To get to the Super Regionals was a great accomplishment, magnified by the loss of key players. The determination with which the team played is the reason I love U.L. softball. Congratulations to the players and coaches for a memorable season.
I hope there was a good group of people to greet them when they arrived in Lafayette. I never heard of the arrival time back in Lafayette. I assume they're back and hope they had a warm greeting, as deserved.