University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Faught Goes In 35th Round To Texas Rangers
6/4/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Faught Goes In
35th Round To Texas Rangers
Wednesday, June 4, 2003
LAFAYETTE
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette baseball pitcher
Austin Faught was chosen by the American League's Texas
Rangers during the second and final day of the 2003
Major League Baseball Amateur Draft Wednesday.
The Houston native played two seasons at the University of Houston before transferring to Louisiana-Lafayette last summer. He is a junior and has one more year of eligibility remaining at UL Lafayette.
His selection by the Rangers gives the Cajuns baseball program three players taken in the amateur draft, joining Corey Coles (5th round, New York Mets) and Jordy Templet (17th round, Toronto Blue Jays) as Cajuns drafted in the 2003 MLB Amateur Draft.
The three selections for UL Lafayette are the most since 2000 when Tony Robichaux's program had six players taken in the draft.
Since Robichaux took over the reigns at Louisiana-Lafayette in 1995 a grand total of a grand total of 27 players have been drafted and at least one player has been drafted each year.
The Rangers selected Faught at the 1,036th overall pick.
Trey Poland was the last Cajuns player selected by the Rangers when he went in 1997.
The lefthander went 4-3 with a 4.08 ERA in his first season with the Cajuns in 2003. He made 14 appearances and had nine starts.
He struck out 43 batters over 46 1/3 innings and collected the win in the Cajuns series-clinching win over Florida International on Easter Sunday going the distance and allowing the Golden Panthers just four hits while fanning seven hitters.
Before joining UL Lafayette in 2003, Faught was a Freshman All-American at UH and was an All-Conference selection for the Cougars during that freshman campaign.
Cajuns Drafted in 2003
Corey Coles, P/OF, 5th
round, New York Mets, pick 139
Jordy Templet, P, 17th round, Toronto Blue Jays, pick
500
Austin Faught, P, 35th round, Texas Rangers, pick 1,036
-Ragin' Cajuns-
