University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Rain Postpones Saturday's Games at ULM Classic
2/15/2003 12:00:00 AM | Softball
Rain
Postpones Saturday's Games at ULM Classic
Saturday, Feb. 15, 2003
MONROE – Rainy conditions forced the postponement of Saturday's scheduled games here at the UL Monroe Mardi Gras Softball Classic, forcing all of the games to be rescheduled for Sunday morning.
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns softball team was scheduled to face Southeastern Louisiana and Auburn Saturday. Those same games will now be played on Sunday with the Cajuns battling SLU (0-5) at 11 a.m. and Auburn (7-7) at 1 p.m to wrap up Pool B play.
Once pool play is completed, following Sunday's 1 o'clock games, the top two teams from each pool will advance to championship play with the remaining teams being eliminated. The No. 1 seeds from each pool will play for the tournament title while the No. 2 seeds from each pool will matchup for third place.
UL Lafayette (2-1) is 0-1 in the weekend event, dropping a heartbreaker to Tulsa Friday night.
The Golden Hurricane and Ragin' Cajuns were in a pitchers duel throughout the event. However, Tulsa was able to break through in their half of the sixth when a Lauren Castle error in right field with two outs kept the inning alive and allowed the Golden Hurricane's two runners on base to score the winning runs.
The loss was the Cajuns first of the season and spoiled another solid pitching performance by sophomore ace Brooke Mitchell. Mitchell went six innings, struck out 12, walked just one and allowed no earned runs for the second straight outing. Friday's outing came on the heels of a perfect game Tuesday with Louisiana Tech in the season opener.
Junior shortstop Jill Robertson, who dislocated her shoulder in Tuesday's game two with La. Tech, will not see action on Sunday and will remain questionable for the foreseeable future.
Following the UL Monroe Mardi Gras Classic the Cajuns will continue their current road trip with a 5 p.m. doubleheader at Nicholls State on Wednesday, Feb. 19 in Thibodaux, La. The Cajuns next home game is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 28 at 4:15 p.m. in the Louisiana Classics against McNeese State
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