Baseball: Louisiana vs Wichita

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Love my RAGIN CAJUNS! Can't wait until the next home game!

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HONOLULU, Hawaii - Nobody could have predicted it, and very few could have imagined it.

The University of Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun baseball team turned their anticipated toughest test of the 2005 season into a laugher here Tuesday, running away from previously unbeaten Wichita State in a stunning 19-3 victory.

The Cajuns (11-0) rapped out 22 hits, scored eight in one inning and six in another in dominating a Shocker club that entered the game ranked as high as 15th nationally in Collegiate Baseball magazine.

"We could have imagined it," said Cajun head coach Tony Robichaux, whose squad provided the most impressive performance on the six-team tournament's opening day. "This team believes in themselves, and they wanted to send a good statement today.

"But this is only one win. We've got to flush this, come back tomorrow and move on."

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Ragin Cajuns score 19 runs to end Wichita State's 11-game winning streak

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Wichita State's unbeaten streak came to an end Tuesday night. Did it ever.

Louisiana-Lafayette handed a Gene Stephenson-coached Shocker team one of its worst losses, a 19-3 setback in the first game of the Rainbow Tournament in Honolulu.

WSU lost to Creighton 16-0 in 2003, 23-3 to Brigham Young in 1982, and 19-1 to Arizona State in 1981.

Things went so bad for WSU that left fielder Carlos Jackson allowed what would have been a single by Josh Landry into an inside-the-park grand slam.

That oddity came in an eight-run eighth in which second baseman Damon Sublett dropped a throw from shortstop Nick McCoola that might have been a double play.

All-American Mike Pelfrey took the loss. It was not one of Pelfrey's best outings. He hit two batters in the third, then got out of a no-out, bases loaded jam by striking out Micah Cockrell, Adam Massiatte and John Coker. He yielded nine singles and four earned runs, striking out six.

WSU pitching had allowed two homers in 11 victories. The Ragin Cajuns hit two. Jefferies Tatford hit a three-run shot in the sixth, the first batter Jared Simon faced.

The Shockers are 59-17 all-time in the Rainbow Tournament and lead Louisiana-Lafayette 9-3 in the series.

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[Turbine]

Originally posted by RedBug58
We had the game playing while we were cleaning "The Tigue" tonight. Nothing like listening to the Cajuns crush the undefeated Shockers and being "on the field" at the Tigue. Was that the first inside the park grand slam ever for UL????

How cool was that to be "inside the park" listening to your team Shock the Shockers.

Wish I could have stayed for the fireworks.

[CajunKahouna]

Check it out......

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/spo...l/11028128.htm

Geaux Cajuns!!

[RaginRash]

This makes me wanna DANCE!


SHOCK 'EM

[CajunCharlie]

RR, how in the world did you that, the animation that is?????? You are getting to be as good as Turbine.

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Originally posted by cjr3888
Great Score!!!!! Wish I could be there to see that inside the park grand slam. He never did that when we played in little league and high school.

No because he was too busy carrying the rest of the team to a state championship. But as you know; he CAN Fly. Go JOSH Go CAJUNS

[cjr3888]

Good Point

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John Coker riding the wave in Hawaii

If a 13-hour plane trip wasn't enough, Louisiana-Lafayette faced the only other nationally ranked team right off the bat in the First Hawaii Title Rainbow Tournament. And then it had to face one of the best pitchers in the nation to boot.

No problem.

The Ragin' Cajuns pounded out 22 hits, including a three-run home run by designated hitter Jefferies Tatford and an inside-the-park grand slam by Josh Landry to hammer Wichita State, 19-3, yesterday.

Louisiana-Lafayette improved to 11-0 overall and 1-0 in the tournament after handing the Shockers (11-1, 0-1) their first loss of the season.

The Ragin' Cajuns are ranked 21st by Baseball America and 22nd by Collegiate Baseball. Wichita State is No. 15 in Collegiate Baseball and No. 24 by Sports Weekly/ESPN.

Louisiana-Lafayette tagged preseason All-America right-hander Mike Pelfrey (2-1) for four runs on nine hits and two walks with six strikeouts in five innings.

"We came out thinking we'd be in a very close ball game, but we were fortunate enough to break the game open," Louisiana-Lafayette coach Tony Robichaux said. "We were lucky to get a win against such a quality team, against a quality coaching staff over there. It's good for our program, but we still have four more games to go. Nobody gives you a championship trophy for only one win."

It was Louisiana-Lafayette's third win against Wichita State in 11 meetings.

The game started as a pitchers' duel with Pelfrey against Louisiana-Lafayette's Austin Faught, who missed all of last season recovering from Tommy John surgery, which he had in October 2003.

He was scratched from Saturday's start with a tender elbow, Robichaux said.

"I was anxious how he was going to throw today," Robichaux said. "But he came out and threw really well, so we're proud of him."

Faught (3-0) allowed two runs on five hits and two walks with three strikeouts in five innings. He was on a pitch limit of 90, Robichaux said.

"It was a big win for him, coming back from surgery," Robichaux said.

"I mostly threw fastballs and changeups today with a handful of sliders," said Faught, a left-hander. "A cross wind kind of helped me out because my fastball was running away."

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The Honolulu Advertiser
By Stacy Kaneshiro