University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
South Alabama
Cajuns Swept Again, Jags Take Sunday
4/19/2009 10:00:00 PM | Baseball
LAFAYETTE, La. ? Louisiana's Ragin'
Cajuns dropped the third game of the weekend against South Alabama on Sunday,
as the Jaguars completed a sweep by a 7-4 margin to drop the Cajuns to 18-19-1
overall and 8-12 in the Sun Belt Conference.
For
Louisiana, it marks the first dip under .500 since March 29, when the Cajuns
were 11-12 overall and made it 12-12 the next day with a win over FIU.
The
sweep makes it two in a row, and is the first time the Cajuns have been swept
in back-to-back conference weekends since joining the Sun Belt. The last back-to-back
conference sweeps occured in 1980 as a Southland Conference team, losing in
three straight weekends at McNeese State, at Lamar and versus McNeese State.
Justin Robichaux took a hard luck loss in four innings of work, finishing with a line
of six hits, five runs, none earned, on no walks and eight strikeouts. He faced
11 batters through the first three innings, setting seven of them down on
strikes. It was not until the fourth inning where defensive lapses allowed
South Alabama to mount a five-run rally. After a foul pop and a single, back-to-back
groundball errors at shortstop should have ended the inning, but the Jaguars
put up three base hits to complete the assault before Robichaux ended the inning
with his eighth strikeout.
Greg
Harmon pitched five innings of long relief, allowing two runs, both solo home
runs, on eight hits, one walk and three strikeouts.
Offensively,
the Cajuns were paced by Chad Keefer and Travis Whipple, who each pushed across
two runs on 2-for-4 and 2-for-5 days, respectively. They were the only Cajuns
with multiple hits, as Greg Fontenot, Les Smith, Will Long and Kyle Bostick
each had one hit.
Louisiana
jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on a two-RBI Whipple triple
followed by the first of Chad Keefer's RBIs with a single through the left to
score Whipple.
The
Jaguars posted their five-run inning in the fourth, adding a solo home run in
the sixth to take a 6-3 advantage.
Chad Keefer gave the Cajuns their fourth run, scoring Travis Whipple after the two
started the inning with back-to-back doubles.
The
Jaguars finished their scoring with a solo home run in the ninth to reach the
final 7-4 margin.
Louisiana
looks forward to a rematch with nationally-ranked LSU at Zephyr Field in
Metairie, La., on Wednesday, with first pitch scheduled for 7 p.m. for the
annual Wally Pontiff Jr. Classic. Jay Walker will take the booth for
SportsRadio ESPN 1420 AM, available over the air in Acadiana or online anywhere
at ESPN1420.com. RaginCajuns.com will have live statistics available as always.
LINE SCORE
South Alabama 7, Louisiana 4 (Apr 19, 2009 at Lafayette, La.)----------------------------------------------------------------------South Alabama....... 000 510 001 - 7 14 2 (18-20, 8-10)Louisiana........... 300 000 010 - 4 8 2 (18-19-1, 8-12)----------------------------------------------------------------------Pitchers: South Alabama - Sage, Brandon; Baxter, Lance(8). Louisiana - Robichaux, Justin;Harmon, Gregory(5).Win-Sage, Brandon(3-5) Save-Baxter, Lance(4) Loss-Robichaux, Justin(0-1) T-2:50 A-2273HR USA - Heisler, Adam (3); Bohanan, Ryan (2).Weather: MCloudy, 76, WSW 13 mphSage faced 2 batters in the 8th.Game: UL38
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