MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - The common adage is good pitching beats good hitting.

For Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun baseball team Sunday, better pitching beat good pitching.

The Cajuns got a stellar mound effort from Austin Faught and got to a pair of St. John's pitching standouts just enough to take a 3-1 victory over the Red Storm in their final game of the Metrodome Classic.

The win gave the Cajuns (17-2) their fourth tournament victory in four outings this season.

UL, which had earlier won titles in its own UL Invitational and Mardi Gras Ball events and in the First Hawai'i Trust Rainbow meet in Honolulu, went 3-0 in the Metrodome meet with earlier wins over Harvard and host Minnesota.

Sunday's win may have been the toughest of all, with St. John's pitchers Anthony Varvaro and Craig Hansen combining to check the Cajuns on five singles and struck out 15. UL didn't hit a ball out of the infield until the sixth inning and had only two infield hits through the first seven innings.

But Faught (4-0) more than matched that effort. Other than a solo home run by Red Storm center fielder Greg Thomson in the first inning, the senior lefthander never allowed another St. John's runner to reach third base in an 8 1/3-inning three-hitter.

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