UL v SLU

[DaddyCajun]

Sorry, fellows but it should NEVER have come to a call or two! We had plenty of run support, we just pitched poorly(given it was TWO freshmen that started for us) but our vets did not close it out for us. Also we bobbled the ball around in the infield and the outfield. Landry in Left missed right infront of him a routine fly ball that the wind took and the ball dove quickly and fell at his feet. Runs ended up scoring later because of it. At shortstop he missed two catchable balls one scooted under his glove and the other he had a bead on a low line drive that went right by him. At third booted the ball a few times and did not pick up a bunt clean once. Catcher Morgan made a bad through to first, should have been an out.

There was more, we had our chances to PUT THE WEIGHT ON THE RIGHT FOOT WHEN WE HAD IT ON THEIR THROATS AND WE DID "NOT"!!!


IT WAS COLD BUT BOTH TEAMS WERE WE JUST LET THEM HANG AROUND INSTEAD OF SHUTTING THEM DOWN!!


TUFF LOSS,
DADDYCAJUN

[NewsCopy]

HAMMOND - There's' no way to sugar-coat this one.

The University of Louisiana's baseball team dropped a game that Top-20 ranked teams aren't supposed to lose here Wednesday night.

The Ragin' Cajuns watched leads of 5-0 and 9-2 blow away like so many chilly breezes at Southeastern Louisiana's Alumni Field, and Ryan Spencer's 11th-inning single provided the difference as the Lions recorded a 12-11 decision over the shocked Cajun squad.

Spencer's single ended a four-hour, 12-minute marathon that UL (17-3) appeared to have locked up early, but host SLU (9-10) refused to go away and eventually came up with the hit it needed to wrap up the upset and stick the Cajuns with a loss that nobody expected after the first three innings.

UL got hits from its first eight batters and were up 5-0 before the host Lions sent a batter to the plate, and was up 9-2 midway through the third inning. But those leads weren't enough as those bats went as cold as Wednesday's playing conditions and the Lions came roaring back to tie the game for the first time in the ninth inning.

Two frames later, the Lions loaded the bases with one out against Cajun reliever Kraig Schambough, and Spencer's line drive over the head of shallow-playing right fielder John McCarthy plated Jason Waguespack with the winning run.

"We just got punched in the gut," said Cajun coach Tony Robichaux, "but this was probably good for us. A lot of people won't understand why I'm happy, but we needed this. We need to see what we're going to do because of this, heading into conference play."

The Cajuns, ranked 17th by Baseball Weekly/ESPN and 19th in two other major polls, had 12 hits through the first three innings, but after that the only runs they managed came on wild pitches that scored John Coker in the seventh and Dallas Morris in the eighth.

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Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[CajunProud]

I said it before but nobody wanted to listen. We can not continue to lose to in-state schools. I know it is still early, but this is an alarming trend that started back in the 2000 season. No matter what anybody says, it is devastating for recruiting purposes. I am not advocating that we discontinue scheduling in-state schools for fear of losing, on the contrary, we need to continue to schedule them and beat the ____ out of them.

I love Coach Robe and all that he has done, and I want him to stay for a long time, but we need to take care of this problem. We need to make that move to the next level.

GEAUX CAJUNS