A couple of rallies came up short in the abbreviated first game, so Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns left no doubt Wednesday night in the second half of a convoluted doubleheader at Moore Field.

Sam Houston State held on for the final 1 1/2 innings to finish up a 6-5 victory in the completion of a game suspended by darkness Feb. 16 in Huntsville, Texas. The Cajuns then took out the frustrations of that loss in a 14-5 crunching of the Bearkats in the regularly scheduled contest.

The odd twinbill split fit well into a strange Moore Field evening, one in which Cajun head coach Tony Robichaux spent the three-hour, 30-minute second game in the UL locker room. Robichaux and senior shortstop Micah Cockrell were serving a one-game, university-imposed suspension following their ejections from Sunday's contest against Arkansas-Little Rock.

"We were listening," Cockrell said after the pair listened to the nightcap broadcast.

What they heard was the Cajuns rapping out 15 hits and scoring three or more runs in three different innings, including a six-spot in the seventh that broke open a close game.

"That should really help us feel better about ourselves," said assistant coach John Szefc, who took charge of the club in the nightcap. "We hadn't hit it on Sunday and we loaded them up twice and didn't get it done in the first game, but we hit in the clutch a lot of times in the second game."

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Dan McDonald
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