DeadHead postponement over, Louisiana Rivalry Renewed

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After a six-year hiatus, the most anticipated regular season match-up is finally here as the Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns visit Alex Box Stadium for the final time to face the LSU Tigers Tuesday. • Louisiana enters Tuesday’s game with a three-game road non-conference losing streak. • Brent Solich will take the mound for the Cajuns, who won their first home Sun Belt Conference series last weekend against Troy. • On Saturday, sophomore Justin Robichaux tied the school single-season saves record with his eighth save in 2008. The crafty left-hander’s next save will give him the mark all to himself. • Tuesday’s non-conference contest at LSU is the first of a four-game road stretch for the Cajuns away from Sun Belt competition. This weekend, the Ragin’ Cajuns will face No. 7 Nebraska in Lincoln for a three-game series. • In the last series meeting, the Cajuns and Tigers met in the championship round of the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional in 2002. After defeating LSU once, the Tigers came back to beat the Cajuns by consecutive 12-2 scores to advance. The Cajuns had won the first three meetings that year before falling in regional play. FOURTH TIME’S A CHARM. Despite finishing 2-3 last week, Louisiana claimed its first home Sun Belt Conference series of the season when the Cajuns took two out of three from the second-place Troy Trojans at "The Tigue"... It marked the second straight Sun Belt series win for the seventh-place Cajuns. Louisiana is 4-8 at home in Sun Belt play this season, but finished the month of April with a 7-5 record after starting league play 5-7. MOODY’S 30 BLUES. Hunter Moody, the school and active Sun Belt career leader in victories (29), needs one more win to become just the fourth pitcher in league history to win 30 or more games on the mound... UL is one of only two schools to with three different pitchers in the career top 10 in victories, joining former SBC member Old Dominion. TWO TO GO. Head coach Tony Robichaux has won 748 career games through 21 seasons and needs two more to become only the 33rd active NCAA Division I head coach to reach 750 career victories. HAWKINS HURTIN’. Junior All-American Scott Hawkins was batting a season-high .333 heading into the series finale at South Alabama on April 20th. In the last six games, Hawkins has seen his batting average plummet 36 points to .297... Hawkins still leads the team with a .297 clip, but is 2-for his last 22 (.091). HISTORY REPEATED. On Friday, Cajuns fans witnessed UL repeat one of the greatest plays in program history during the 7-3 win over Troy... With runners on first and third, Scott Hawkins made his advance to second on the front end of a double steal. Hawkins’ move allowed Matt Goulas to slid into home untouched for the Cajuns’ first successful steal of home since the 2005 NCAA Regional at New Orleans. It was also reminiscent of the Cajuns’ steal of home during their magical run to the 2000 College World Series. WALK THIS WAY, TAKE TWO. Senior Nolan Gisclair became the second Cajun this season to drew a school-record four walks in a game. On Wednesday, Gisclair registered only one official at-bat in the ninth - a strikeout... Earlier this season, junior Matt Hicks tied a school record, drawing four walks in a win at FAU... Ironically, Hicks was the first Cajun since Scott Hawkins drew four walks against Florida Atlantic in 2007. DOUBLE OR NOTHING. Entering last weekend’s series vs. Troy, sophomore utility player extraordinare Chance Harst had just four home runs through the first 41 games... In the first two games, Harst blasted three homers including two in the 7-3 Friday win - his first multi-homer game of his career. RECORD SETTER. Justin Robichaux tied the school’s single-season saves record in game one of Saturday’s Sun Belt doubleheader with Troy... Robichaux struck out a season-high five batters in a season-best 3 1/3 innings of relief to capture his eighth save of 2008... Robichaux’s next save will surpass Aaron Welbourne for the single-season record all to himself. Robichaux needs four to tie the school’s career saves leader, Kraig Schambough (12). LSU SCOUTING REPORT. LSU enters Tuesday’s non-conferece contest on a six-game unbeaten streak. Last weekend, the Tigers swept No. 12 South Carolina at Alex Box Stadium. The Tigers started their week with back-to-back wins at Tulane and McNeese State... Matt Clark leads all Tigers with 16 home runs, while Blake Dean has driven in a team-best 36 runs. Derek Helenihi is one of five Tigers batting better than .300 this season. Tuesday starter Austin Ross is 2-1 with a 2.33 ERA and has notched two saves in 15 chances. LSU SERIES. Despite differing historical series records and results from both institutions, LSU leads the all-time series 45-22 (according to UL SID archives)... Tuesday’s meeting will be Louisiana’s last-ever game at the Old Alex Box Stadium. The series will be renewed after a six-year hiatus when the two schools squared off five times in 2002... The Cajuns won the first three meetings that season and were one win away from advancing to the NCAA Super Regional round, but LSU defeated UL by a pair of identical 12-2 scores to eliminate the Cajuns in Baton Rouge. RaginCajuns.com Chris Yandle

[GoneGolfin]

Sorry, but the play where Goulas scored from third on the double steal (with Hawkins on first) is nothing like the Feehan steal of home in the CWS. There have been many plays like the one Saturday executed over the years.

Brian

[AstroCajun]

Cheese fries with gravy will be consumed.....


any idea on which beers to try? I usually stick to abita...

So may beers, so little time.

I like Boddington's and its really hard to find a place that has it on tap. Chimes is one of those.

If you are interested in the Germans, I like Paulaner, Warsteiner and Spaten (though not in any particular order) however these are on tap almost everywhere that prides itself in nice draft selection.

I've discovered that Hoegarten, from Belgium, is got quite a good finish to it.

[Big Buds]

Sorry, but the play where Goulas scored from third on the double steal (with Hawkins on first) is nothing like the Feehan steal of home in the CWS. There have been many plays like the one Saturday executed over the years.

Brian

Feehan worked w/ me at Paul Fournet Air Service for about a year and we would always talk sports and of course stealing home in the CWS. Every time it came up a glare would shine in his eye that I'm sure still does today.....what a cool moment in ones life. And you are right what Goulas did is NOTHING like what Feehan did. Oh yeah, he hit a bomb in Omaha also.

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Programs have put bad blood from the 2002 regional behind them as rivalry is renewed Soon after Paul Mainieri took the job as LSU's baseball coach in the summer of 2006, he received a phone call. On the line was UL assistant coach John Szefc, who asked Mainieri if he wanted to renew the Ragin' Cajun-Tiger rivalry. UL and LSU had not played each other since ejections, suspensions and controversy highlighted the final head-to-head matchups in the 2002 NCAA Regional Tournament. "I told him I thought we should play," said Mainieri, who took over the Tigers after the resignation of Smoke Laval. "You have two great programs from the state of Louisiana. It's good for college baseball and good for generating fan interest across the state." It took another two years, but the heated in-state rivals meet for the first time in six years at 6:30 tonight in a sold-out game at Alex Box Stadium in Baton Rouge. The rest of the story Joshua Parrott jparrott@theadvertiser.com

[sleepophile]

_ Ya i think I am going to end up bringing an icechest and my faithful old smokey and make some food. Better than searching for food around a litter box. _

RC2010 your message was just read on the air on the TigerDroppings radio show Stirring some ____e

[Rambler]

http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/m....asp?p=8012078

Wow. They actually have people posting from class that are LSU fans.

[CajunDreDog]

https://www.nmnathletics.com/ViewArt...ATCLID=1449549

So why does this page say "Live Stats/Video: www.RaginCajuns.com" and there is NO video on our site????

Now, I am MAD!!! We can NEVER get our @#$% together! I got excited today for nothing.

[GoneGolfin]

https://www.nmnathletics.com/ViewArt...ATCLID=1449549

So why does this page say "Live Stats/Video: www.RaginCajuns.com" and there is NO video on our site????

Now, I am MAD!!! We can NEVER get our @#$% together! I got excited today for nothing.

UL does not provide video for road games. The video is available on the LSU website. Of course there is a charge ... but subscription packages are required for all LSU video ... there is even a charge for the audio.

Brian

[CajunDreDog]

UL does not provide video for road games. The video is available on the LSU website. Of course there is a charge ... but subscription packages are required for all LSU video ... there is even a charge for the audio.

Brian

The page (which was emailed out) made it sound like LSU was going to share their video feed with us, like S. Bama did the weekend before last. So, I am just listening to the KPEL-AM feed online instead...wish I was watching instead, though.

GEAUX CAJUNS!!!