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Home Phone: 337-237-6834 Baseball: Rams reunited at UL Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • April 15, 2010 The left side of UL’s infield this baseball season certainly boasts a local flavor. Junior Greg Fontenot is starting at shortstop for the second consecutive year, while fellow Acadiana High School grad Tyler Frederick has started 18 games at third base as a redshirt freshman. Frederick leads the Ragin’ Cajuns with a .364 batting average, logging 28 hits in 77 at-bats. Fontenot is tied for the team lead with 42 hits and is second with a .344 batting average. The former prep teammates are expected to be in the lineup again this weekend as UL (19-14, 7-8 Sun Belt) goes on the road for a league series against Arkansas-Little Rock (21-14, 4-8). “We’ve been playing together for five or six years now, since our freshman year of high school,” Fontenot said. “We know each other pretty well. We talk about it (having played together for so long) every now and then. “It’s just good that we’re both producing.” The tandem has also helped the Cajuns calm down defensively. After other players struggled in the field early on at third base, Frederick got his chance and has committed only three errors in 58 chances since moving into the lineup. Fontenot has made only six errors in 156 opportunities this year. That’s an improvement over last season, when Fontenot had a team-high 19 errors in 255 chances. According to Fontenot, the addition of volunteer coach Brooks Badeaux has helped him do a better job of attacking groundballs and improving his fielding position. Badeaux was a former Teurlings Catholic and Florida State standout before playing 10 years in the minors. “I think coach coming in has helped me tremendously,” Fontenot said. “We worked really hard in the fall and spring and took a lot of groundballs and did a lot of drills. It’s really helped a lot.” Another honor The senior right-hander fired a one-hit shutout last Friday in UL’s 6-0 win over Troy, allowing only a third-inning single while striking out seven. UL coach Tony Robichaux plans to start Osborne again Friday against UALR with senior righty Justin Robichaux getting the nod on Saturday. Coach Robichaux considered swapping those two after Osborne threw 136 pitches in his previous start. Bowman update Griffen will travel Griffen, last year’s starting catcher before a knee injury in the fall forced a position change, has been out since undergoing an emergency appendectomy on March 2. At the time he had emerged as the team’s top closer with a 1-0 record and 0.00 ERA in two appearances Odds and Ends * * * * * * * * Baseball: Fontenot Adds LSWA Weekly Honors Greg Fontenot was named the Sun Belt’s Player of the Week and also the LSWA Hitter of the Week. April 7, 2009 BATON ROUGE, La. � Shortstop Greg Fontenot of UL and pitcher Don Williams of UL-Monroe were named Tuesday as the Louisiana Sportswriters Association Baseball Players of the Week. Fontenot, a junior from Lafayette, La., was named Hitter of the Week as he maintained a .667 on-base percentage, scoring five times throughout a four-game stretch. He hit .583 with six RBI, and he provided several key hits. On both Saturday and Sunday, he was responsible for what became the game-winning RBI in come-from-behind victories over Middle Tennessee. Fontenot also laid down three sacrifice bunts during the week and was 2-for-2 in stolen bases. He was 4-for-5 with runners in scoring position and 4-for-4 with runners on second and third. Williams, a junior right-hander from Oklahoma City, Okla., was named Pitcher of the Week for the second week in a row as he fired his second consecutive complete game — the first ULM player since 2002 to accomplish that feat � in a win over Mississippi State. Williams struck out a career-high nine Bulldog batters and allowed just one run — a solo homer in the third inning — against a Mississippi State lineup that had been averaging just under seven runs per game. He improved to a perfect 3-0 on the season, issuing just one walk during the outing. * * * * * * * * * * April 6, 2009 Baseball: LOUISIANA’S RAGIN’ CAJUNS SWEEP SUN BELT BASEBALL WEEKLY AWARDS NEW ORLEANS � Louisiana-Lafayette�s Greg Fontenot and Zach Osborne are the Sun Belt Conference Baseball Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, as voted on by the league�s member institutions. Fontenot, a local Lafayette product, put an impressive week as the Cajuns rolled to four-straight wins, including a series sweep of conference foe Middle Tennessee. The sophomore was instrumental in ULL�s victories, helping on both sides of the ball with his errorless performance at shortstop and his .583 batting average. Overall he maintained a .667 on-base percentage, scoring five times throughout the four-game stretch, while adding six RBI. On both Saturday and Sunday, he was responsible for what became the game-winning RBIs in come-from-behind victories over league-leading Middle Tennessee. Fontenot also laid down three sacrifice bunts during the week and was 2-for-2 in stolen bases. Fontenot was a tough out, as he struck out only once. He successfully advanced runners at an .800 clip, while batting 5-for-7 with runners on base and a clutch 2-for-2 with the bases loaded. He was 4-for-5 with runners in scoring position and 4-for-4 with runners on second and third. Fontenot finished the week with an impressive 1.250 OPS. Osborne was untouchable this week, earning a win and a save in seven innings of dominant work across two appearances, including one perfect outing, both against the hot bats of Middle Tennessee. The Blue Raiders came into Friday’s game ranked in the top 20 nationally in six different offensive categories, and Osborne shut them down Friday night and dominated again on Sunday. He threw 3 1/3 innings of perfect relief work Friday, setting 10 batters down in order to make the Cajuns’ come-from-behind rally standup. To close the game, Osborne struck out all three batters in the Raider’s last try, all swinging. On Sunday, Osborne struck out the first two batters he faced, both swinging, and went on to strike out two more, fanning four in 12 batters faced. He earned the save while allowing just one hit. For the week, batters hit .048 off Osborne (1-for-21, single), and he allowed no sacrifices and threw no wild pitches. He finished the week averaging 11.57 strikeouts per game and 28.29 batters per game, just 1.29 over the minimum. Via the Sun Belt Conference office. John L. Strawn
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