Robichaux Gets 600

[Turbine]

Very tight game, but its what you can expect when teams from the State of Louisiana get together.

congratulations Tony Robichaux on win 600

      UL 4
NWST 0

[El Sidonio]

Congrats to Robey. He's the youngest in NCAA history to get to 600. Lookin forward to a great season!

God Bless.

[NewsCopy]

Austin Faught didn't know that he'd been part of a milestone win for University of Louisiana baseball coach Tony Robichaux. But he can appreciate what it means.

Faught allowed only two hits in eight shutout innings in pitching the Ragin' Cajuns to a 4-0 victory over Northwestern State Sunday evening in the final game of UL's Invitational Tournament.

The win gave the Cajuns the tournament title and kept them unbeaten this season, and also provided Robichaux his 600th collegiate victory - a fact he did his best to downplay following his squad's sixth straight win.

"That's a great accomplishment," said Faught of the 600th win. "It's a good feeling to have pitched in this one, and I know he's happy to win this one. He's a coach that teaches guts and performance."

Faught (2-0) personified those traits, giving up only a walk and a hit batsman in the first five innings and then pitching out of trouble in the sixth, seventh and eighth when the Demons (3-4) put runners in scoring position.

"He had all three pitches working for him," said Demon coach Mitch Gaspard. "We'd be thinking fast ball and he'd dump a slider in on us. He pretty much kept us off balance all game."

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Dan McDonald
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