Lady Cajuns 2005 Post Season Run

[JMV JustMyView]

JMV do you think we will see brooke again at all in this tourny. Her ribs seemed to give her a lot of problems yesterday and forced her to work out of some bad situations. I think Bobbit and Kershberg can handle it, what do you think?

With the game on the line I at least try Mitchell (she really is a gamer) and the team feeds off of her. Brooke is also experience and a big game pitcher. Bobbitt on the other hand is 18-1 and Kershberg has looked decent in limited action this season. However I do believe coach Lotief will pitch Bobbitt and / or Kershberg tonight and hope to get to championship sunday with Brooke getting to rest and staying out of the heat. We can win three in a row, with Brooke 100% we would be undefeated right now. Never underestimated these girls with there backs against the walls.

[LongTimeCajun]

Lady Cajuns already down 1-0 in the top of the first inning, Oregon has bases loaded with 2 outs. Brooke Mitchell and Heather Bobbit were supposed to get a rest tonight but both are already up in the bullpen as Kerschberg(?) is having control problems.

[DaddyCajun]

3-1 Ducks was the last I heard, anyone know the final?

DaddyCajun!

[LongTimeCajun]

Lady Cajuns end the season with a 3-1 loss to Oregon tonight. Kirchberg went the distance for the Lady Cajuns while Oregon's Cook went all 7 innings only facing 2 batters over the minimun. The Lady Cajuns couldn't make up for a rocky first inning which consisted of 2 consecutive walks and then a 2-run double. A sacrifice fly also plated a run in the first inning for the Ducks. Oh well, great season once again for the Lady Cajuns and with Heather Bobbitt back we should have another good one next year. Go Cajuns.

[RaginEsquire06]

Our Ladys went out as Champions! Nothing to feel bad about! Love ya Lady Cajuns! Thanks for the wonderful season!

[NewsCopy]

NORMAN, Okla. - The 2005 college softball season came to an end for Louisiana's Ragin Cajuns, after dropping two consecutive games in day two of the NCAA Region 14 Tournament in Norman, Okla., on Saturday.

In a winner's bracket contest to start the day, the third-seeded Cajuns fell to the host team, and top-seeded Oklahoma Sooners, 6-3, before being eliminated by the No. 2-seeded Oregon Ducks, 3-1.

"This team has a lot of character, which is why it hurts so bad right now," said co-head coach Michael Lotief. "They wanted it so bad, but it just didn't happen."

In the opener, Oklahoma jumped on Cajun starter Heather Bobbitt for three runs in the opening frame, taking advantage of an infield single and a walk, to take a quick 3-0 lead.

Bobbitt settled in however, and started to put up goose eggs, allowing her team the opportunity to come back.

The Cajuns took advantage of that opportunity in the bottom half of the fifth, when with two outs, Codi Runyan and Tiffany Hebert drew back-to-back walks off of Sooner starter Kami Keiter, before Jill Robertson tied the game at three with a three-run homer over the left-field fence.

"I just had a feeling that I was going to do something," said Robertson. "I wasn't trying to hit a home run, but I just wanted to be at the plate and do something positive in that situation."

The Cajun momentum was short-lived however, and the Sooners answered with two unearned runs in the top of the sixth, as Allison Horne, hitting for Keiter, delivered a two-out, two-run double, to give Oklahoma the lead back, 5-3.

The rest of the day

Steve Peloquin
Sports Correspondent

[El Sidonio]

All I can say, besides the fact that I love our team and support them all the way, is that I saw this coming. I know our team is good and special, but anytime this season we played truly quality opponents, we more or less folded. The good thing about this, besides the stellar season we had, was that it gave us great experience for next year. Mark my words it's only a matter of time before we go back to the WCWS.

God Bless.

[JMV JustMyView]

It was a great season and nothing to hand there heads about. It is time to start rooting for Oklahoma due to two locals on the roster Hollis from STM and Fox from Acadiana, my only question? How did we let two local girls get away from us?

[JMV JustMyView]

Would have liked our chance better with Brooke 100%.

[Turbine]

Would have liked our chance better with Brooke 100%.

Brooke of 2004 coupled with this years format, and UL is in the WCWS

[JMV JustMyView]

I believe we would have won this regional with Brooke 100% althought most people don't know that there were 3 ranked teams in this regional. A regional win would have matched us with Arizona which would have been no easy task.

[NewsCopy]

A special era in Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun softball officially ended on Sunday when the charter bus carrying the 2005 Cajuns pulled into the parking lot at Ragin' Cajun Park.

Seniors Jill Robertson, Brooke Mitchell, Joy Webre, Crystal George and Tiffany Hebert saw their final collegiate action when the Cajuns bowed out of the NCAA Tournament at Region 14 in Norman, Okla., on Saturday.

The quintet helped the Cajuns to the 2003 Women's College World Series, to a 60-8 record last season and to more than 50 victories per season under co-head coaches Stefni and Michael Lotief.

All five of the seniors are focused on life after softball - Mitchell to get married, Robertson heading for graduate school, for example - but with a little regret that the 2005 campaign ended with a 51-10 record and short of the CWS.

"You always want to end your last game in Oklahoma City," said Hebert, who will graduate in December and then attend physical therapy school. "But it's been a long four years, a good four years. I've learned a lot, and it's made me stronger.

"I worked really hard and have a lot of great memories."

The rest of the story

Bruce Brown
bbrown@theadvertiser.com