University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
BASEBALL OPENS SEASON WITH DOUBLEHEADER SWEEP
2/6/2000 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
CAJUN BASEBALL SWEEPS WEEKEND SERIES WITH SHSU...Feb. 6, 2000
LAFAYETTE -- Louisiana's Ragin Cajun baseball team rolled over Sam Houston 9-4
Sunday as their bats exploded with two first inning homeruns, which wrapped up their home
opening series of the 2000 season.
The Cajun's offensive production was much the same as Saturday's performance, led by
sophomore shortstop Neil Simoneaux's first inning homerun which sparked a three-run inning
for the Cajuns. Junior designated hitter Scott Atwood also homered in the first inning
plating Will Hawkins to bring the Cajuns season homerun tally to five.
"Scott is a homerun guy, he is supposed to hit homeruns," Head coach Tony Robichaux said. "For freshman it sometimes takes time for them to come into their
own. Anything that Neil does is not going to surprise me."
Junior left-handed pitcher Nick Webb started the game for the Cajuns, and helped guide
them to their victory with six strikeouts and allowing only two Bobcat hitters across the
plate. In six innings of work Webb faced 22 Bobcats and walked only one.
Robichaux credits the victory to the entire team's efforts on defense, but especially
the Cajun hitters.
"We knew going into this season that we had a great opportunity to have a good
hitting ball club," Robichaux said. "Over the years we were not able to have all
of our hitters on the same page. This club has the ability to be on the same page as our
hitting system. It will make us better now that our pitchers are pitching according to a
system and our position players are hitting according to a system."
The Cajuns brought in sophomore right-hander Gordon O'Brien in the top half of the
seventh inning, in which he struck out three Bobcat hitters and gave up only one walk.
A familiar face to the outfield, senior Ryan Gill was then brought in at the beginning
of the eighth inning to close the door on the Bobcats. In two innings of work Gill faced
nine hitters, striking out two and giving up only two runs on one hit.
The losing pitcher for Sam Houston was Howard Pence, was pulled by Sam Houston head
coach John Skeeter after three innings of work after giving up four runs off six hits.
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