Houston Completes Sweep of Cajuns

Sunday, March 2

Houston, Texas

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Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns

Houston

3/2/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Sunday, March 2, 2003

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HOUSTON- Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns baseball team continued to battle through their early season struggles in a 4-1 loss against the University of Houston here at Cougar Field. The Cajuns were held to just one run on three by the Houston pitching combo of Garrett Mock and Ryan Wagner.

Houston opened the game against UL Lafayette starting pitcher Jordy Templet in the first inning with consecutive hits by Kevin Roberts and Hyung Cho. Roberts scored from third on an RBI groundout and Cho scored on a sacrifice fly by Stuart Musslewhite to give Houston the 2-0 lead after one inning of play.

UL Lafayette picked up a run in the third inning off Cougar starter Garrett Mock (2-0) to make it a one run game. Second baseman Sport Voorhies led off the inning with a walk and advanced to third on a Justin Morgan sacrifice bunt down the third base line. Voorhies scored the first run of the game for the Cajuns on a ground ball error by the Cougar shortstop. Right fielder Kevin Preau picked up the RBI on the play.

Cajun centerfielder Corey Coles led off the sixth inning with a double to centerfield. First baseman Phillip Hawke laid a perfect sacrifice bunt down the third base side advancing Coles to third. With one out the Cajuns failed to get the tying run across the plate after Bryan Sneed lined out to third base and Ryan Core struck out swinging.

Houston added another run off Templet in the bottom half of the sixth inning when Hyung Cho led off the inning with a double and scored on a Cajun infield groundball error. The Cougars increased the lead to 4-1 in the seventh inning after Cougar leftfielder Gabe Lucas opened the inning with a double and scored from third on a one-out called balk on Templet.

Templet let up one more run in the eighth inning to make the final margin 5-1. Kevin Ardoin replaced Templet with two outs in the inning. Templet allowed five runs on nine hits through 7 2/3 innings, while walking one with no strikeouts.

Houston third baseman Hyung Cho led his team offensively in the three game series batting .615 against Cajun pitching with four runs scored and two RBI.

Templet (1-2) suffered the loss for Louisiana-Lafayette, while Mock (2-0) received the win for Houston. Ryan Wagner picked up the save for Houston after allowing no hits or runs in the final three innings.

UL Lafayette drops to 5-10 on the year and will travel to New Orleans this Wednesday for a 6:30 pm game against in-state rival Tulane at Turchin Field.